Dwarf Hamsters
August 29, 2002
My two little dwarf hamsters are utterly adorable, but not doing anything particularly photo-worthy. I had imagined that they would be doing all sorts of darling things that I absolutely had to get on film immediately and share with y'all, but it just has not happened. For sure, they are as darling as the day is long, and their little...
My two little dwarf hamsters are utterly adorable, but not doing anything particularly photo-worthy. I had imagined that they would be doing all sorts of darling things that I absolutely had to get on film immediately and share with y'all, but it just has not happened. For sure, they are as darling as the day is long, and their little...
Go To The Bank (III)
August 28, 2002
You have to phone back in two days to find out if your sample passed the first screening. Those were two pretty tough days for me. I was just about half a step shy of being sick from anxiety. Because you are being judged, right? The quality of your sperm is being measured, and how is the result not a...
You have to phone back in two days to find out if your sample passed the first screening. Those were two pretty tough days for me. I was just about half a step shy of being sick from anxiety. Because you are being judged, right? The quality of your sperm is being measured, and how is the result not a...
Go To The Bank (II)
August 26, 2002
So I scheduled for Tuesday because you have to abstain for 48 hours before donating. Presumably that is 48 hours from ejaculating. I cannot imagine they would care if you fooled around to whatever degree as long as you stopped shy of climax. So it had to be Tuesday, as it was inconceivable that I could ford an entire weekend...
So I scheduled for Tuesday because you have to abstain for 48 hours before donating. Presumably that is 48 hours from ejaculating. I cannot imagine they would care if you fooled around to whatever degree as long as you stopped shy of climax. So it had to be Tuesday, as it was inconceivable that I could ford an entire weekend...
Go To The Bank (I)
August 23, 2002
I had a difficult time not giggling out loud when the woman?s recorded voice was using phrases like ?the sperm then goes into quarantine for an additional six months? while I was sitting at work at my desk in the middle of an otherwise perfectly normal workday. I wondered what, if anything, everyone around me was thinking. Just another Scott...
I had a difficult time not giggling out loud when the woman?s recorded voice was using phrases like ?the sperm then goes into quarantine for an additional six months? while I was sitting at work at my desk in the middle of an otherwise perfectly normal workday. I wondered what, if anything, everyone around me was thinking. Just another Scott...
Operation Nightwatch
August 20, 2002
I did a volunteer night at Operation Nightwatch last night. I called them a day or two after the birds bit, which had really focused me on wanting to do a shift to see what they were all about. It turned out to be surprisingly difficult to get in. They are a Christian Organization, and people sign up to work...
I did a volunteer night at Operation Nightwatch last night. I called them a day or two after the birds bit, which had really focused me on wanting to do a shift to see what they were all about. It turned out to be surprisingly difficult to get in. They are a Christian Organization, and people sign up to work...
Those Preachy Aliens
August 19, 2002
If aliens were going to take over the Earth and cook us all for dinner, ala the To Serve Man episode from the Twilight Zone, they would have some work to do first. No doubt they are looking down on us from their secret base on the far side of the moon, and are appalled by the rising obesity of...
If aliens were going to take over the Earth and cook us all for dinner, ala the To Serve Man episode from the Twilight Zone, they would have some work to do first. No doubt they are looking down on us from their secret base on the far side of the moon, and are appalled by the rising obesity of...
Hawaii
August 16, 2002
[Scott! Being a smartass at work! Newsworthy! But maybe someday I will go to Hawaii, so it would be nice to know what to do by having logged this stuff now. Plus, if anyone wants to hook up do any of the below here in Seattle, I think it?d be great fun of a Saturday afternoon. ?...and they give you...
[Scott! Being a smartass at work! Newsworthy! But maybe someday I will go to Hawaii, so it would be nice to know what to do by having logged this stuff now. Plus, if anyone wants to hook up do any of the below here in Seattle, I think it?d be great fun of a Saturday afternoon. ?...and they give you...
Freeloading Birds
August 14, 2002
How can you read the success of my bird feeder as anything other than an indictment of the welfare state? When I first moved in, back in ?97, there was this weird sphere hanging off the tree in front of my house. About a year later, I realized it was a birdfeeder, and had a little pop top that you...
How can you read the success of my bird feeder as anything other than an indictment of the welfare state? When I first moved in, back in ?97, there was this weird sphere hanging off the tree in front of my house. About a year later, I realized it was a birdfeeder, and had a little pop top that you...
Babies Saving the World
August 12, 2002
Friday, I took off a couple of hours early from work to drive down to Portland and visit B~ and A~ and their new baby, James. I thought, leaving work at 2:30, that I would miss all the worst traffic and arrive plenty early. Instead, the Hood Canal Bridge (God only knows where that is. In Washington, I presume, but...
Friday, I took off a couple of hours early from work to drive down to Portland and visit B~ and A~ and their new baby, James. I thought, leaving work at 2:30, that I would miss all the worst traffic and arrive plenty early. Instead, the Hood Canal Bridge (God only knows where that is. In Washington, I presume, but...
Mortality
August 08, 2002
I had a scary moment the other day where I got up in the morning and wandered upstairs, and Mr. Fish was not right there on the porch or tensed into her take-off position at the top of the hill, waiting for me to throw a ball. She was plopped over on her side at the top of the hill....
I had a scary moment the other day where I got up in the morning and wandered upstairs, and Mr. Fish was not right there on the porch or tensed into her take-off position at the top of the hill, waiting for me to throw a ball. She was plopped over on her side at the top of the hill....
Porn in the Morning
August 07, 2002
Those mornings when the alarm goes off and you do not want to get out of bed, even though it is not all that cold and getting up is not going to cause you a lot of physical suffering, but somehow you feel unenthused and unprepared for the day, thinking perhaps that you do not have the intelligence or energy...
Those mornings when the alarm goes off and you do not want to get out of bed, even though it is not all that cold and getting up is not going to cause you a lot of physical suffering, but somehow you feel unenthused and unprepared for the day, thinking perhaps that you do not have the intelligence or energy...
The Sound of Music
August 06, 2002
Today?s proposition is that we are living in a world shaped by the generation that was shaped by The Sound of Music and its musical lessons. [How do you solve a problem like] Maria is a nucleus from which has been built entire lessons about how cool it is to treat authority with irreverence, and how that is okay as...
Today?s proposition is that we are living in a world shaped by the generation that was shaped by The Sound of Music and its musical lessons. [How do you solve a problem like] Maria is a nucleus from which has been built entire lessons about how cool it is to treat authority with irreverence, and how that is okay as...
In a Name
August 05, 2002
In the mornings, when I go to exercise (my new gig: getting up a half hour early, cycle, exercise, cycle home, shower and get on with the day; supposedly freeing up time in the evenings which will be spent in the valuable pursuit of projects, housecleaning, quality time with friends and dog, and so forth. In practice, to date it...
In the mornings, when I go to exercise (my new gig: getting up a half hour early, cycle, exercise, cycle home, shower and get on with the day; supposedly freeing up time in the evenings which will be spent in the valuable pursuit of projects, housecleaning, quality time with friends and dog, and so forth. In practice, to date it...
Back in the Game
August 01, 2002
[And thanks to Josh for clueing me in and getting me out of my frames world.] I played hockey last night for the first time since getting back from London, making it something like an eleven-month absence from the game. [Viewed from far enough away, any flesh-coloured picture looks like porn. I am watching the designer guy a couple of...
[And thanks to Josh for clueing me in and getting me out of my frames world.] I played hockey last night for the first time since getting back from London, making it something like an eleven-month absence from the game. [Viewed from far enough away, any flesh-coloured picture looks like porn. I am watching the designer guy a couple of...