I've been away from here for a while and still no messages.

Scott sent me a picture today of his morning sky. Check it out. I guess you can call it a Hypoluxo sky.

Here is to beer. I also enjoy, not necessarily at the same mind you, travel essays and such writing. Please read this short essay. I don't usually care for this cat even though I read this comic, but I enjoyed the strip this day. I'll be busy at some time, really. Look at this Marymoor rainbow.

Time for some Starbucks coffee now I do think. Have a great day, week or whatever.

Dave wrote to me and he is alive and well in Montague. He says he goes to this site often but I don't see any comments. Please write to him and tell him about your life, your hopes and your dreams.

I found this site at Katy's blog.

How much of the coming gulf war is Bush and his oil buddies securing the mid east or is there a true threat from Saddam and his friends in al qaeda?

John F. Manley says "the U.S. drew the wrong lesson from 9/11 ."

I don't try to be mean here, but I received this e-mail today saying:

"If you wish to give your uncritical and wholehearted support to all of President Bush's domestic policies and programs, cast your vote by clicking below:

click here"

They want to blame this lousy economy on Rubin and Clinton. These guys sound like Nazis bent on world domination. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and see whos names are on this. Here is the hit list map. Don't pull this shit in my name. F*****g Nazis.

Here is a conservative who came to believe that the Bush administration's foreign policy (is) run by people in love with their own ideas.

There! I just manually linked my archives to my weblog. I tried to upload a text document with the javascript in it but the whole thing wouldn't load to my natman site on MSN. I can't even show any potential helpers what the code was I was using. Well, here it is and it might mess up this page, but...

faultStringjava.lang.Exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/Templates/blognumber_a.html (No such file or directory)faultCode0

src="<$BlogArchiveFileName$>" type=text/javascript

before and after the last line there is supposed to be script and /script; this line goes in the main template and the first one goes in the archive template. If anyone out there knows why this set-up doesn't work, either my side or blogger side, I'd be grateful for the help. Right now I'm just happy to have my archives linked once again. Aum Sat Nam
Peace Peace Peace

I shook hands with Richard Bach today. He spoke at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. He is a good speaker and it was a pleasure to watch him creatively piece together and weave his responses to questions. Of course at the book signing I thanked him for writing his books and I gushed about how Tracy and I loved them. She doesn't know it yet but she now has signed copies of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Air Farrets Aloft. My normal reaction to anything farret is "but they aren't cats". I'll give the book a try, and maybe the little known others. He is convinced that no one else knows about the farret books either.

I asked him about his writing. He said in his talk that he would usually get six rejection letters for each book and he told me that he didn't rework them in between sending them back out to different publishers. He approved of the Steven King book, "On Writing". Steven King would save all of his rejection slips and keep them on a nail in front of where he worked. Richard Bach said that he had planned on eventually using them to wallpaper a room. He didn't tell me whether he did this but he then conceded that the contrast between his volume of rejection letters and his over the top success is (not an exact quote, my words) sweet. Good for him, and us. Thanks again for writing those books.

"We can take steps every day to increase the interaction within our families and our communities and between ourselves and our natural environment."

Here is to drinking every day.

Now you'd think that I always have a lot of time, being unemployed and all. I cleared up some finantial issues and related paperwork today because I have more time. And now it is high time to actually look for a job. I know that I move slowly but it has to be at my pace. The biggest problem I face (I believe) is that I have no good idea as to what I want to do. I have a BA in Political Science and have worked cooking for the last 14 or so years. This really stinks because if I knew what I would like to do then don't you think I would make that happen for myself? People think that they are helpful by asking me what it is that I would like to do, as if I had never thought of that idea. So I've bought the book, "Zen and the Art of Making a Living" in the hope that something between those pages will help me get from here to there. I'll open it tomorrow. It is too late tonight even though I fear that my run this afternoon will keep me up late. I can tell people that I'm listening to my muses for inspiration and short term promise but a metaphysical/intuitive approach to a job/career leaves them with a blank stare which then turns into a look of pity and fear. The day to day flee and don't turn back.

"God forbid we look at the details of exactly who benefits most from this administration's policies."

Tracy and I went cross country skiing today. Here she is with her skis. Yesterday I took the motorcycle out for a ride. I could, I was told, go rafting tomorrow. This place has such large recreational possibilities. From the Olympic Peninsula to the Puget Sound, the Eastside, The Cascades and East across the high desert of Washington, there are so many things to do in this state. This author laments the loss of Lou Pinella and touches on why the people of Western Washington love this area. The rest of the country could learn a lot from the Northwest. Did you know that it is illegal not to have a litterbag in your car in Washington State?