Saturday

(Below was also posted as a comment to the last post)

The computer is wiggin, I think it might be a problemwith the wireless card.

The Rudy Weibe book is called Sweetr than all the world. I haven't started it yet. My recent hike at the base of mt baker (a volcano) inspired me to re-read Kerouac's Darma Bums. At one point I found that book vry meaningful, although on re-reading I can't see why. Maybe the insights are in the second half.

As for the Kayak, I'm not looking for white water, more the touring around the lake and mayb into Puget sound type. Something with a couple storage compartments and a rudder. a recreational/day touring affair. maybe a hybrid. But beggars can' be choosers....

Have I told you how much I love the library? I am using theier computer and internet at the moment. Also I picked up a couple moe DVD's and a few books I had requsted. Public library rocks!

If someone knows how to make a sidebar thing to put on the side of the page,I want to put together an on-going list of books. I'm stealing the idea from Nick Hornby, who has a column in Believer where he lists the books he bght that month, and what he has read. The column is usually a review of one of the ones he read (rather than the un-reads, which ouldn' make sense).

Just checking in, still alive.

As I said before, I don't like blogging at work, and it doesn't always work out so well at the cafe (we'll se if it works today). I am planning on taking my computer in to the Mac store so they can fix it while I am in CO. I will be visiting Becky and Jay at the end of the month.

For the first time since I was a little kid, I signed up for a library card. Being in school, I didn't need to get a public library card because I could get everything I needed through the University. If UW didn't have a book I could order it from schools in Oregon. If it wasn't available through any university, it was 99% sure that the Seattle library system didn't own it. But in my attempt to cut down on expenses, I decided to stop buying so many books and start borrowing. This is the excitement my life holds. Today I picked up the first pile of books I had requested from other libraries in the system. It's like being in school, except three of the books are about wine, two are about mennonites (sort of, one is a novel by Rudy Weibe, the other is about the anabaptist seige of Munster in 1534) and one is a movie by Miyazaki, my favorite animator (responsible for such greats as Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away).

I had been looking for a new apartment, but that has been abandoned. Instead I am planning on moving into a house one street east of my apartment. My friend Liz is moving to Japan for 18 months, so I am moving into her room in a house. I already know the other guys living there, so I think it will work well. They are a good group of guys, pretty active (climbing, skiing, etc.) so hopefully I will get a chance to join them. Personally my new interest is Kayaking, although I don't have the money to buy a Kayak anytime soon. My goal is to find a used one before next summer. Of course then I will also need a roof rack to transport it, and paddles, and a life jacket, and all that whatnot.

For those of you who know and encounter my Dad, wish him a happy 60th, and be sure to refer to him as an old geezer.