Holy shit. It has come to my attention that I know a mall ninja type.

Long Sleeved?




Or Short Sleeved?

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Write down five exciting things you love to do or think about. Take this list with you everywhere you go. On another piece of paper, name five fears or unpleasant thoughts that demoralize you. Put this list at the back of your closet. For the next seven days, try to refrain from letting your mind wander to the things on the bad list. Meanwhile, undertake an aggressive campaign to cultivate, seek out, and enjoy the five exciting things that you love to do and think about. In fact, any time you notice your attention veering toward the negative stuff, immediately steer it toward the positive. Don't worry, this exercise won't turn you into a brain-dead optimist. After all, you'll only do it for a week. The items on the second list will still be there when you're done. Or will they? Maybe they will have mutated into something more manageable.

(freewillastrology.com)

Today I am a mushroom.

You know: I just get fed shit and I'm kept in the dark.

Before I forget, bizarre event coming back from lunch.

As is customary, buddy Karl and I had lunch - Toy's Chinese in Bellevue, not a bad little place. We chatted amiably and headed back to the office.

Getting close to work, Karl points out an odd sight, a chubby cop in brown jogging and speaking in his radio. We are momentarily confused, "He's chasing someone?"

A quick scan revealed a prisoner in a red jumpsuit shackled up both in hands and feet shuffling as quickly as he can from the cop. He was making as much speed as he could, and, embarrassingly, was out pacing Officer Donut.

The convict gives Karl and I a piteous look as if to say, "Are you gonna help?"
I looked at Karl wide-eyed, "Holy shit! Are we going to help the cop?"

Well Karl is a son-of-a-cop so his answer was, "Hell yeah we are!"

The crook disappeared in a treeline near an office building, and we made a fast break in the parking lot and scanned for him, but couldn't find him. Hopping back in the car, we went to the parking garage to see if he was hiding out in a car or something.

Turns out we went too far, as we moved back towards the parking lot, we saw a group of 4 or 5 cops with a dog and firearms out. Perp was recaptured.

Officer Donut I saw, was walking back up the hill that he shambled down - his shoulders kinda slumped.

All in all, a pretty exciting way to wrap up a lunch.

Last week I went to the beach with my family, mokie_sassafras, digitalscreams, taxqueen, roostur, some_other_word, and our collective brood of children.

My goal there was to unwind, and wine up - my slogan for the event. In all truth I beered up, but that's not quite as poetic. Seems that I need to hear the crashing of the ocean on shore at least once a year. Its like a recharge.

I learned some stuff about myself: I ride "goofy foot" on a longboard, and I like the mild flavor of eel. I also learned that I write a lot more on paper than I do digitally given the chance.

While there, I more-or-less ignored my diet and workout. So today I got back to the gym - I'm going to be feeling it tomorrow for sure.

But I won't do this one. Promise.

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Its an act called Black Kids. I swear. I don't think they're a Cure tribute band either.

Let's do a quick recap:

1. In a few hours we'll be on the road to Ocean Shores with a bunch of cool people. I'll be gone until Thursday.

2. Work is interesting. My boss wanted me to do one thing, my manager noticed that I was unhappy, after a brief discussion I was doing something else. Now I'm much happier and busier at work.

3. Health is getting where it needs to be. In this month I've lost about 10lbs. From 280 to 270 (although this morning it read 272). Next month I'd like to be in the 260s.

4. Sharon was gone last week in Olympia grading WASLs. It was lonely, but I filled my days with work, and evenings with workouts and part-time parenting.

5. She'll do the same after this week, but I wanna visit her in Oly-town, despite my slight distaste for the place.

6. I'll be writing more "Book of Timothy" posts soon. After the mini-vacation.

floated around in my head. It involved thinking about a friend's predicament - the predicament stemming from this friend's lack of confidence. I started a running dialog while driving, creating arguments, persuasions, counter arguments, and cajoling.

In the end my natural instinct to edit and append took over.

"Be braver."

princessgeek got us a new showerhead a couple of days ago. She probably spent less than $20, yet our quality of life has increased tremendously.

Yay for great shower water pressure in the morning!

We bought a used Dell from the UW garage sale. Its a decent little machine but we need a legit copy of XP. We found a disc but of course it was the same disc as the one we used for our main PC.

So, any Microsofties wanna help a brother out w/MS store powerz?

I am wearing my size 38 pants today. Couple a months ago squeezing into them was a laughable affair.

The other day after watching, "Dead Like Me", Ian asked me something that I was not prepared for.

"What's a rimjob?"*
"Uh, its a sexual act."
"Ok."


*George's computer password is "rim job", which she explains was her hamster's name growing up. Delores says her grandfather's cat was named Oddjob.

During a trip to India, my friend Jeff paid a boatman to row him out into the Ganges River for a little recreational cruise. When they got there, the boatman stopped and refused to move, let alone row him back to shore, unless Jeff forked over a surcharge. Don't let something like that happen to you in the coming week, Cancerian. Always have a well-planned arrangement, agreed on in advance, to come back from wherever you're brave enough to go. Be experimental, yes. Explore new territory, yes. Be willing to surrender some control, yes. But make sure you've got a return ticket.

Does anyone have the Jim Butcher "Fury" series that I can borrow?

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Medium
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Low
Lust:	Very High
Pride:	Medium

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

Asian men are screwed. skipbreakfast once posited that Asians are the most discriminated against, which I was pretty hand-wavery about, but man.


Good thing I'm only half.

I love that at least two people on my friend's list are taking costume inspiration from Dr. Horrible. (I'm looking at you seanb and tithonium.) Myself? I think I'd make a much better Captain Hammer.