Got out and did the ole windsurfing lesson yesterday. It was great fun. And really friggin hard. I’d expected to be far better at it far faster than I ever was. I don’t mean that I thought I’d immediately have the ability to ‘shred’ but I thought I’d be able to zip across the lake, execute a simple turn, and come back. Lake/river/whatever it was, it was called The Hook, and was somehow associated with the Columbia River.

Today I wrote some haikus for some odd reason but this is not one. really.

Ugh, I’ve been pretty quiet lately. Here’s a hint of why. Not that I’m complaining…it beats being bored. 6:45 woken by work,after getting to sleep after 1am, because of customer issue (no worries tho…you know who you are ;). Work problem, identify that it’s not ‘our problem’, shower, get to work late at 9:30. Work work work. Go home, pet Augie. Vote. Go to soccer practice. Get home at 8:30, cook dinner, watch 24…almost forgot!

blog, I command thee to pop into my mind once again and remind me to go visit this homebrew wiki so that I make good on my next batch of beer (that I have the grain for already!).

Interesting event yesterday. My buddy Kevin, having built a small motorcross track in his backyard held the first (and, sadly last) annual Hawthorne Classic. Many individuals showed up with their 50 and 100cc dirt bikes to show their mettle in Kevin’s yard. Men, women, and children competed for the coveted awards. The weather was great, the Pabst stayed cold, nobody got hurt, and when the cops came, they left shortly afterwards and never came back.

I’ve been reading a book on parasites…or was, I put it down for awhile after I started having ‘parasite dreams.’ Abrichar sent me a nice link about one of the classic parasites, the tapeworm. Check it out, it’s a lighthearted romp through this guy’s intestinal tract you won’t want to miss. And the illustrations will just burrow into you retinas.

This is an interesting article in which the author, a lefty, immerses himself in right wing media for 30 days, and discusses his feelings throughout. I listen to several right wing talk shows in a similar vein, and have made many similar findings personally. However, I tend to find both the left and right wing talk shows to be repetitive, biased, and lacking in significant objective insight. And they have too many commercials…I still listen to both, but not as much as I’d been trying to in the past.

They sure know how to make you feel special up in Redmond: Getting married? Find tips, tools and the latest trends at MSN Life Events. (from an MSN email footer). Maybe next they’ll have: Dying soon? Visit our online mortuary! Well, it was a busy ole weekend. Had the matriarch side of my family up, and that’s always a good, exhausting time. My bro and I hit it pretty hard when we go out…though I was really good saturday night, mostly because I was pretty well spent from Thursday and Friday.

…for the Nobel Peace Prize! On the off chance that Moore is able to battle through Disney’s stonewalling and get his film released enough, but not too much for our brief cultural memories, before the November elections, and Bush is somehow defeated, and the film is linked to said defeat, I can see now that Michael Moore will be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. All the more so considering the hurdles he’ll have to clear now.