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I haven't posted in a long time. Here's some nice stuff. It's all in links, except the pic of Natalya jumping but it's good!
Video of cute kids at the Barcelona zoo. They must only do these trips to the zoo once or twice a year since they have to restrain the kids with rope. Watch the video to see what I mean.
Video of Magic Fountain.
Video of Dancing Egg Fountain.
Videos of Street Musicians, one of a Hang Drum & Soprano Sax Duet, and the other of a solo Hang Drum player.
Now for Natalya jumping!
Wow, its been a while since I've posted anything so I decided to just drop a few lines... I've been fighting a kidney/bladder infection for the last month or so and also dealing with high blood pressure issues which have not been fun. Doctor finally prescribed me some blood pressure meds and I've been battling with the side effects this past week. I'm waiting for the pay off, but nothing so far. I have a Urologist appointment next week to see what's going on with me and how we can fix it. I'll keep you posted on that. 
Writing this made me realize that I need to write more, I have been a little stale. Today I am moving my desk from my garage to my sewing room... then I can sew and create and write... no more excuses.
To: CJ
Cc: TxK
Subject: RE: Pancake Supper Club #2
Not sure if you made it and we missed you or you didn’t make it. As we entered through a purple haze a little after 9:20 there was a steady beat, that continued while we stood there and people got things sorted. There was barely anyone there and they hardly looked ready, rather than offer to help we decided to get some fresh air and skip the beer and wine in favor of some of the harder stuff. We exited back through the haze and headed around the corner to the Bit (once the workin’ mans saloon now something about it being a dive bar). One drink we a listened to a guy express that he liked Seattle because it is where it is ok for a black man to like country and punk, enjoyed the occasional juke box sign-a-longs, even joined in a few ourselves… we realized it was 10 so we headed back. The haze was still strong and had shifted just slightly. The same beat droned on. There was no cleverness. Chatted with a few folks asked if anyone had seen you and knowing Johnny would be there all night asked him to keep an eye out for you and to let you know we had been and gone back to the bit. Back to the bit we had a second drink and chatted with some locals. I love the bit. I think it was another hour past and we headed out, back around the corner, TxK almost lost her life as a car careened around the corner with no regard for human life. I hollered “car!” and her life was spared as she darted like a ninja out of the way. Granted it would have been WAY cooler if she had jumped and flipped and landed on her feet on the hood of the car and gone for a joy ride, but this is real life not an action film, so instead you just have to imagine that is what she did, even though she didn’t.
We contemplated walking back in before climbing into the rig, it was a little past 11 now, and the haze had moved to the sidewalk, and was wafting like the evil black cloud in Lost towards us. We opted for the Chariot to take out leave of that place.
Hope you had an equally as exciting Friday.
I admit it, he was getting a little shaggy...
He did not love being there, but he did well. I had them give him essentially a Schnauzer cut, but with keeping his mohawk.
My week (even having taken a 5 day weekend) has been crazy and I am tired.
I brought Dözer back to the shelter.
Cue “booooh”.
He was not very happy about it. In fact I had to drag him back to his kennel, he was spread eagle, head on the floor REFUSING.
Wednesday I worked my volunteer shift.
The dogs were crazy. Everyone barking, many peeing in their cages, tipping water buckets, pooping… Goldie climbed into an adjoining kennel. Dozer was chill, he even shook a little.
So I took him home again.
Idiocracy is a movie which says in the future, the human race will just get dumber and dumber. Here's the explanation through a case study, but be aware, there is some foul language:
Dumb title...nothing new. This clip is from The Heartbreak Kid. It is pretty funny, but this clip keeps coming to mind, so I thought I would put it on here. It's another one you can play over and over and it gets better and better...at least in my mind.
RL is real life. I blame my over-a-month-long hiatus on real life. Like the insurance company says, real life comes at you fast. Oh well, no big deal. What did I do? I was on a U.S. Navy ship for a joint military exercise. Here's a link to a video of what it's like to walk down the halls at night. Here's a picture of the ship leaving the port:
Feel free to check out the rest of the pictures on my Flickr site.
Also, in RL, Natalya & I went to Barcelona for her birthday & the long weekend. It was a great trip, but it wasn't as warm or as dry as we would have liked. I still haven't uploaded any pictures of that trip. Will do so soon.
And this weekend, we had a party to honor Natalya's birthday, since were out of town the previous weekend. I haven't got any pics of that online yet, either. Sorry.
Happy Birthday, Natalya!!!
Those are the highlights. I'm sure other cool stuff happened, too, but my memory is a sieve. Just last night we went and saw the latest Indiana Jones movie. We liked it. I thought it was over-the-top but in keeping with the feel of the series.
Hopefully, this breaks my hesitation to post and I get stuff on here on a regular basis from now on. Have a great day, everyone!
