What are you wearing?

Toe, The image of you in your socks and underwear with Tivo'd Rick Steves in the background made me laugh so hard. I think it's the combination of socks and Rick Steves. I think Rick Steves might actually be the human embodiment of the act of "sitting around in ones underwear and socks." That's probably not fair to him, but I guess I find him slightly annoying. I think I just want his job.

Dude, that's an awesome description of a street scene in NYC. I would love to go visit. I don't think I've been to the diamond district, but your instinct is probably correct that it represents the old city. My knowledge of the city is so small for the amount of time I have spent there (uh, the first 13 years of my life I lived right nearby). I hope to get back there this year, maybe around Xmas. We used to travel to CT around that time of year, but with half of my in-laws on the West coast now, I'm not sure that's going to happen.

Feeling a little less blue today. The sun is out, the last of the night's crickets are still chirping in the shade. I think I'll go up to the cafe on the corner and work there for a while. They have wireless internet, which is pretty amazing for little D*b.

Yes, life choices. I don't like the sound of the phrase "end up in" when it is used with "D*b." I do enjoy the small town life, but I miss the activity of big cities. Beyond the energy of so many people being in one place, there is also the fact that so many events, activities, clubs, shows, etc. are going on at any given time. It's almost impossible to be bored. However, it is not only possible to get bored in D*b, it is highly likely. I was looking through our community calendar. Unless I want to go to the Elk's Club annual pancake breakfast this weekend, or the community theater's production of "Annie Get Your Gun," there's really not much to do.

I need to check out more stuff going on at the university--there's a real town-gown divide here, so there are activities and events at the university that aren't widely advertised.

On another subject--yeah, the live Jews were awesome. The guitarist on stage left (the one who looks like he could work for a law firm) is Peyton Pinkerton, the guitarist from the Natural Bridge album. He was really great on all of the songs, even imitating Malkmus' guitar lines to some degree, but when they played Natural Bridge tunes like "How to Rent a Room" and "Dallas," he totally owned them.

Here's another shot of the Orkney Islands, a lone standing stone. The thing has just been sitting there for 5000 years.




I am wearing shorts and a tee shirt.