summer video

HELLO. I had to get one more post in before July was gone until next year.

I had a good July! It's always one of my favorites because it is my birthday month. I read somewhere that people often have an affinity for the time of year they were born  - does that sound legit or ridic to you? I vote: LEGIT.

Anyway - someone linked to this song and video on twitter and I LOVE IT.  It's mega summer guitar pop with a boat and stripes and an amusement park... just watch it.

See you in August!

when your world is full of strange arrangements

(this picture from nine years ago (9!) came up in my flickr stats today.  Have you been to the redwoods? You should go.) 

ha ha! I just deleted a bunch of wah wah stuff and it feels GREAT. I will say that today was a weird one for me and I felt manic yet sluggish at the same time which is a gross combo. But my normal brain is returning for which I am grateful. 

THOUGHTS/ QUESTIONS/ OBSERVATIONS: 

• were 2006/7 peak blog years? I mean personal blogs. It feels like so many people have either gone pro or gone to Facebook and I just kind of miss the old freewheeling days of WHATEVER out in the open by anybody. I know this is largely replaced by Twitter for many and that's cool, but still. 

• I am super digging the Mad World book and am so happy they're already at work on volume 2. MORE ON THIS in the future when I will also include a bunch of pictures and videos. 

• My old computer won't even turn on and on the one hand it's fine because I have a newer, functional computer and I can get whatever I need off of the backup (I THINK), but on the other hand aaaaarrrrgghhh. Just do what you're supposed to do, brick of plastic! 

• So, I've been listening to some ABC (thank you, Mad World book) and my favorite part is always when Martin starts talking to himself. "Martin, maybe one day you'll find true love. (heavy sigh)" ha ha ha ha! The Best! 

• ho ho - I just deleted (or delted, if you like Original Typo Style) something else that is not worth devoting any infinite free space to. Ha ha! take that, THOUGHTS. 

tomato time

June 8 - I planted these about a month earlier from starts I bought at Fred Meyer.  From the left: Bloody Butcher, Sugar Lump, jalepeno (not a tomato), Tigerlike, Juliet, another jalepeno. I've taken to buying tomato plants that produce smallish fruit because I never know if we'll have enough sun to ripen a big tomato.

July 4 - the tomatoes seem VERY HAPPY in their block bed! They have since crested the fence. Lots and lots of little green tomatoes - I'm excited for them to start getting ripe!

Tomato mania warning: I also have a green zebra and a "chocolate cherry" tomato growing in pots elsewhere.