"We have seen this game before"

CommUnity of Minds : Working Together

Why? Because We Can

Do you think you have a book in you?

Are we headed toward a Pax Americana and do you understand the implications?

Watch these viking kittens. It is one way to learn the lyrics to this song. Zep

"Activists rally against clearcutting"

It just came to my attention that my mattampash link no longer works. Mattampash is the area that the Sawmill River passes through as it goes through Montague Center in Massachusetts. It is home.

I went downtown to Pike Place and saw Dave Matthews this afternoon. I was hoping to catch Jill Cohn but was too late. Dave sang at the rally to benefit old growth forests. He related that there was a time when the term jazz was a derogatory one and that now he is glad to be known as a tree hugger. You go Dave. And to those who rely on this terminology as a weapon, your time will pass because we cannot afford, and the earth cannot afford to listen to you much longer. There is a middle way; all parties have to talk.

I tried to upload some pictures of Dave and my trip to Concrete, Washington but the msn site won't work right.

I looked at an apartment in Redmond today. It looks promising. I'll need a bed. Is it bad to be looking out over the pool? I will have to get used to the price though. I had it cheap in West Palm Beach. What a miserable place Florida can be. I don't know where it came from either. Maybe it comes from the tense race relations, from the caribbean or from New York but South Florida is bad enough to grind the humanity right out of you.

Check out this MSNBC Weblog.

I drove up to Snoqualmie Pass and talked to Pat at the Great Western up there on the top of the mountain about a possible job. If it had been five years ago I would have been happy to help them out and join the team. There were too many obstacles seen and unseen to work as a cook there. I believe my future lies more in the valley (or at least the plateau).

Jasper the cat has a bladder infection so he is now on antibiotics and an opiate based pain medication. I'll add a picture of Jasperlater.
I'm headed into the city to follow up on a housing lead. I went to Pike Place market to pick up something Seattle-like an a clerk said she would inquire to someone she knows about apartments in Issaquah.

Like superman in yesterday's post, this man also lost his wife. Read this poem.

Please read about this Superman.

I found this insightful:"the origins of the Jerk vs. Nice Guy battle"

"Gentlemen, if any of these signs are all too familiar, then head for the hills and leave home without her."

I just came back from Bob n' Cindy's house. They are looking forward to a trip to Antigua in November. They'll be getting away from the Wendies. Bob showed me his rifles. Go guns. Can't bring them on the plane. After Kathy's wedding we'll be getting on the plane for our return trip back to Seattle. I need a place to live and a new livelyhood. Go me.

Tracy, Joe and I went to Maine yesterday to see the Kennebunkport and Kittery areas . Here are a few pictures of the rocks and our dining and harbor views.

The bridge in Montague is essentially finished. I'm told that what is needed is only the final coat of roadway. You can see the workers clearing the road for the pavers.

Here is a picture of Ling and Ty's food dish. They need to have pictures of family members in their dish. Oh yeah, they are siamese cats; very talkative and happy here at home.

I got here in time to get to the wedding, thanks to Raymond and Theresa for the drive from the airport and Abby and Collin for the drive to New Hampshire. I rented a car from Mork and I'll be driving to Gardner to meet Tracy and Joe for a ride up to Maine. Ayuh.

The bridge isn't finished; I haven't seen a worker there since I arrived. I'll have some pics of the "progress" soon enough. I'm sure there are more things to say which I cannot remember. Gotta sleep. G'night.

Last year today I was with Mom at the nursing home where she was recuperating from her broken shoulder. Jennifer was on her way to the Bradley Airport so she and the baby could get home to Jacksonville. They ended up taking a train days later. I'm flying on Friday night. I haven't been in the air since before the eleventh. Gotta see little Mikey get married. you all have a good day.

Molly Ivins sees lots of loopholes still unplugged.

Kate Riley thinks about the Kennewick Man.

I have already called home and e-mailed family and friends on the fate of Tara. Unbeknownst to us she had a severe case of diabetes. This explains the weight-loss and later shakiness. She developed pancreatitis which destroyed her ability to digest food. I had to make the only humane decision to have her put to sleep. No pain there.

I was talking with Scott today and I told him that I would take a picture of the first Starbucks. It is on Pike Street at Pike Street Market. I also bought a bobble toy for my hostess/patron here in Issaquah.

Powell was jeered at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Boo hoo.

Tracy, the dog and I went to La Conner yesterday to do some sightseeing and to get away for the day. We even managed to look at a studio apartment at Bridal Trails near Belleview. We didn't care for much of that possibility. I'm still looking.... On our way back we meant to go to Whidbey Island and then take the ferry back, but instead we found ourselves on Camano Island, so we went to the state park there. The dog got to cool off in the water. Tracy took this nice picture looking northeast toward the mainland.

As I write this as the dog is at the vet's. The veterinarian is checking her blood for anything which can tell him why she has lost so much weight and what is the relative condition of her organs. She has weak valves in her heart and this makes her lethargic. Anybody out there in contact with the elderly will recognize this as chronic heart failure. She may see a cardiologist.

I was reading the Seattle Times today and I would like to throw out this article to you all who see this area as a dismal rain-soaked sunless mess. I may change my tune at sometime in the winter but I have to admit that I too have had enough of the sun and heat. It is relative because I spent eight years in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Remember the park where I bring the dog for her walks and wades? Here is a great article about the model airplane area there in Marymoor.

Tracy and I also went, a few days ago, to a Mariners game and here are some of the pics: cameraman, dancing groundsmen, Ichiro!, some friendly knuckleheads behind us and the national anthem. Tracy likes the scoreboard. The Mariners lost 4 to 2 to Kansas City.

Of the murders in certain towns in Colombia, [o]ne of the few who takes the carnage in stride is funeral director Maria Cruz.

"Business is great, thank God," she told a reporter without a hint of irony, sitting amid empty coffins trimmed with purple velvet. "Sometimes there are bodies everywhere."

Ted freakin' Nugent visits Seattle. Read what happened. "SEATTLE, THE NORTHWEST, LIMP-WRISTED (BLEEPS)!!! CAN'T STAND MY (BLEEPING) EXISTENCE, CAN'T EVEN GET MY SONG TITLES RIGHT, PUT QUOTES AROUND MY WORDS THAT NEVER CAME OUT MY MOUTH, LEFTIST MINDLESS... !!! ".

The Washington Post reports, "Using slogans and chants from South Africa's liberation movement against the white minority's apartheid government, the demonstrators said that the conference, known as the Earth Summit, was a farce, focusing more on the corporate agenda of rich nations than on the development needs of poorer nations."
...and a funny for the earth subject.

David Broder writes, "So much has been written about this becoming 'a nation of stockholders' that the Dow Jones average has turned into the most popular index of Americans' well-being. It is important, but, as this study reminds us, jobs and wages and income are a lot more vital to most people than the state of their stock portfolios."