Delivery

If you follow this blog and no one does then you would know that I was expecting a used computer.  Well, it finally came.  I guess it takes two months when your provider is an apartment manager.  I had to go in the manager's unit to pick it up.  It appeared that they actually abandoned furniture when it became covered in things and picked up additional furniture which they placed in front of the covered furniture.  I really appreaciate the gift of the computer which they were abandoning.  I don't want to seem unappreciative but it did take me a hour to clean the dust and goo off the monitor, keyboard and tower.  Oh well, it is nice, THANKS.

Yeah, got myself a darn'ol snowmachine. Wow, it is fast. This is me and Shelley (just trying out the name) near Gore Pass, CO.

Stephan Malkmus and The Jicks!! This was a nice break from EO semester work. Myself, Andy Rudolph and Josh Bezdek.

This is Parshall Divide, between Parshall, CO and Hot Sulphur Springs, CO. I'll tell you that it was 5 degrees and windy. Anyway, it was beautiful enough to stop, open the coat and take off my gloves to take the picture. Bet you can figure that out for yourself.

It's fun to take pictures of things out the window of a moving car with a cell phone camera. Things in the foreground tend to bend over like these highway barriers on the shoulder of I-80 west of Salt Lake City by the Great Salt Lake.

I went on a road trip last weekend to San Francisco with Anni. Moved her to the coast. Flew back to Denver two days after I left. It was a fun trip but a real sad weekend. I love San Francisco, I never have to do any work there. I spent the saddest moment of my life there at the airport.

This posting is going nowhere. I have work to do.

Kroger Lemongrass Basil Hand Soap

So this one has been a long time coming. That is for those of you who have been traveling and may have heard I was going to write about the hand soap in my bathroom and thus really had little else to think about. But some of my other loyal readers probably haven't heard me talking about soap, so I have digressed already.

Let me start then, by telling you (you) that my eye tends to be caught by those little yellow sale tags when I shop at the grocery store. I suppose that some look for a certain brand or something and that is how they buy things. When I intend to pick up some toilet paper or tissue paper this is what happens. I walk to that section of the store that shelves what I am looking for, or past it, several times as it happens and I turn to the shelf and stare. I back away from the section of items to fill my vision with my choices. My eyes see sale tags, quantities, price per ounce, price per pound, sheets per roll and so on and I work for my value. That's just a bit of insight as to how I shop. So, like, imagine what else is there. Let's get back to what this is all about. Soap.

King Soopers is my store, I know where things are in there. The organic milk with the hormones that make my brain smart. I put that in my coffee. The frozen pizza for when I am just hungry and shopping is not a great idea. I know where they keep the lettuce I like, and when they bake bread (everyday). You get the idea. So one day, and I don't even remember when so you will just have to forget about that part, I am soap-shopping. And I do exactly what I have done since I first went soap-shopping: I get the cheap store-brand stuff. I already did the whole stand back and stare thing so I knew what to do, you know? So this time it wasn't the normal watermelon scent but I wasn't exactly there to peruse so I bought it and took it home with me. That's when people stop being nice and get real.

Kroger Quality Guaranteed Lemongrass & Basil Hand Soap in the 7.5 oz 221 ml hand pump bottle is the best soap ever made. It smells like spring rain in a mountain meadow. Once in middle school, a girl passed me, and I smelled her and that smell had me awkwardly trying to catch another whiff of her for awhile. Now I have a whole bottle of that smell. And it doesn't think I am weird. It is just a bottle of soap and so cannot pass judgment. That's up to you. It's Lemongrass-Basil soap; it smells like subtle lemon and basil-not like pesto-basil, but like basil in a field-basil, pasture in the misty rain-basil. It's nice. I really enjoy having it there. Sometimes I check out my hand-scent just to see what's going on there. Quite often it is lemongrass-basil.

I think that I am going to be saddened when I next go soap-shopping and find the soap flavor has changed again. Although change is good, maybe right now there is a Kroger soap scent engineer working on the next best hand soap scent. I hope so. And I think maybe I should have lent more credence to the watermelon scented soap that preceded the lemongrass-basil scent. I wonder what came before watermelon. Apple is nice. Mellow.

And if you are reading this thing and thinking 'double-u-tee-eff?!!' I will mention that this Saturday I replaced the muffler and tailpipe on my Old's and afterwards I washed up with Lava, which is a good soap. It'll take the skin off your hand. But it ain't Kroger.

The oak leaf belt is back in effect. Thanks to a new buckle from the Park Life store in San Francisco. I was introduced to Park Life, after hearing about it for months and months by my girlfriend Anni. We went there together recently, as part of my wonderful reintroduction to California (northern). Thanks Anzibelle. Directly following Park Life was dining at the famous Berma Superstar. Try the Berma Punch. Ginger root juice, lemon and beer. Whoa, let me tell you; that's good stuff. The oak leaf belt comes from Steamboat via my father. He wore it with a big brass Steamboat buckle. I reanimated the belt with 'Super Sharp', a brass buckle shaped like a double- sided razor blade. It is nice to have this back in the stable. It keeps my pants from failing to stay in place admirably. Further belt-related bulletins shall be posted as progress dictates.

Computer Salvation

The building manager's family is giving their computer to me. I have two currently. Both laptops more than five years old. They both require so much patience, flexibility and time to use that I have taken to using my phone to write emails. Neither has a battery that works. The internet browsers shut down whenever they encounter Flash or really anything. I wonder how long the Microsoft engineers have been trashing the error logs from my computers. So I will be recieving a older desktop that is 'outdated'. This desktop has 10X more memory, a better processer and 8X more RAM than either of these laptops. This laptop, the one I consider better can only display 16 colors on the monitor, 1/3 of which does not display desktop at the borders. So I am pretty excited. I just need to decide what to do for them for the favor and what to do with the laptops. Good wine and shotgunning, respectively? Spa trip and trip to the Sun, also respectively? The former for the manager and the latter for the laptops. Not the other way around. That was last week, when I wanted lightbulbs changed.

Birth

OK , hi. This is blog post #1. Via phone via email. Will it work?
Will I go yo bed after? The answer to both questions follows.
Logically.