so close

It was a day of near misses for me.  It started with my nemesis camped next to the recycle bins, watching to see if I mis-recycled anything.  It seemed as if it was going to rain, like it was just seconds from it, all morning.  In the afternoon, a pigeon flew right over my head, and then a second later deficated all over the pavement.  With all of that, it makes me wonder what else I just nearly missed today.  Here's hoping it was mostly bad stuff at least.

me vs. the dust(wo)man

As starts go, today had quite the bad one in store for me.  I was slightly yelled at by a city worker for... throwing my garbage into a bin instead of leaving it on the side of the road.  You heard me.  While it was a small trash bag instead of loose litter, and given that leaving it on the street for the dustmen to pick up is technically the right thing to do, it still felt like littering to me.  And as I looked back at the dustman, with her hi-res trouser rings glistening in the dawn's light, her self-satisfied glower told me that it was worth it to her -following me down the street, around the corner and through a parking lot- just to tell me off.  Now I may be jumping to conclusions, but I think I may have found my nemesis.  This short, aged worker woman will be the tweety bird to my sylvester.  Let the games begin.

yes, but it's not a hen

so today I saw a fox walk down the road.  He paused to look at me as he went by, cocking his head slightly before he continued on.  It made me double-take.  And I thought that was just in adverts .

Catan!

We will get this and we will play catan on it and it will be good.

glorious

There is nothing that beats sports night along with chinese food.  Even if it isn't american chinese food, it still rocks.
I'm just sayin'

black books

'half ten? half ten?! I've never been up at half ten before. What happens at half ten?'

This is the last of the cranes

You don't need to worry about me going over the top with the whole origami cranes business (too late I guess), because after this I'm done with 'em.  I just had to find something to do with all of the cranes I had folded up on my travels last week.  All told I think I have done about four dozen this year... so many more to go until I reach one thousand.  Until I reach that mark, they're a thing of the past.

cinco de mayo felicidad

O joy to the world, mexico has done
something worth drinking about!

it's really great, to drink piss beer
that has a lime in it!

and so on and so forth.

anyhow it seems appropriate to raise a bottle of corona to a country without drinkable tap water, seeing as how I just got back from a city where there was no tap water.  This is not irony.

oh well, that can't all be winners.
or any maybe.

jumping on the band wagon a bit late...

I got house of leaves while I was over in the states, which is apparently some kind of cult hit from way back that is just beginning to break into the mainstream (or did break into the main stream awhile ago but is just getting on my radar).  It has all the things that I love in my media: quirky-ness a hazy line between the created history of the work and the cult beginnings of the actually book as well as having the advantage of being described as 'ergodic literature ' (whose definition is fairly impossible to break down into nice english but may be summarized as having a large amount of hypertext).  As I look back on my blogs, this last description clinches my love of this book; any blurring between inter-text and printed media sends my into some sort of reader's dance of joy.  The only draw back is that it apparently drives it's readers so crazy trying to figure out the meaning within it (one of the layered sub-plots, it's about a guy who reads a manuscript) that they end up having to kill people in order to stave off insanity... that might just be a self defeating action right there.  Anyhow more to follow on whether or not it sends me over the bottom, so to speak!

that's all folks!

To sum up:
ten nights
four different beds
one wedding
two families
one great big group of friends
roughly 72 hours of travel time

all adds up to a vacation that I'm going to need a vacation to recover from

boston booze day

I will now attempt to drag from my hazy memory the names of the bars we crawled to and from yesterday in the tradition celebration of urban drinking.  We met at Parish's for some lunch and a few beers; this is where I first learned about Sammy's brick red.  Given my love of all things limited in availability this beer became my go to ale for the day.  After that we wandered through the park to blank to watch some of the sox game (you're killin' me by the way sox) more beers, and one stolen chair piece later we find ourselves at the Black Rose for some irish drinking songs.  I was able to remember a few lines from whiskey in the jar which made me feel practically irish.  By then it was time for supper so we made our way along the waterfront to the barking crab for some fried clams, crab dip, etc.  All in all it was a great day.

Location sorted!

At last, after months of online searching, weeks of phone call debates and days of onsite visits, we have chosen a venue!  Stonehurst will be hosting a drunken celebration of the union of our two families whether they are ready for it or not.  Granted we had to book a year and a half in advance, which I think is excessive but many assures me is necessary.  Indeed the guy that is in charge of that sort of thing at Stonehurst was telling us about all the appointments that are coming to see the grounds in the next week; we may have just squeaked in to assure our wedding date.  Also, we are beginning to gather all of our thoughts together on my better half's (still no call name as of yet) website.  So check it out and make some suggestions!  Also get ready for some sort of website to respond to the save the dates that we'll be sending out as soon as we make them.  It'll be a place to let us know what songs you'd want to hear that night as well look at some maps on how to get there, etc.  Also you might be able to rsvp to the wedding, but the other things are way more important.  But I digress;  visit her blog and view the awesomeness we have collected from the internet!