Ahh, Friday. Only seven more days until the weekend. I’ve made a lot of progress this week, and feel as though I’m ready for a break. But this weekend isn’t going to be much of a break. Saturday looks like a trip to mom’s, popping by the Saints Training Camp if it’s not raining, and a party in the evening. Sunday there’s the photowalk, flipping the calendar to a new month (with the associated bills to pay) and collapsing in a heap on the couch once it’s done. It’s all stuff I want to do, but I think I’m going to need to schedule a weekend day with absolutely nothing sometime in the near future. Just not this weekend. Or next. Sigh.
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| Me at Oktoberfest 1980 |
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It almost makes me long for the days when I could spend the best part of three days walking around Munich with giant litre mugs of beer. Here’s a moment when I seem to have lost the beer and paused to prop myself up against a pillar. Given that I was almost as tall then as I am now, but weighed less than half as much, I was a much cheaper drunk. Not a prettier one. But the main thought I’m struck with when looking at this photo is Eric Forman could have kicked my ass, and was much cooler too.
I’d like to think I’ve grown since then, and not just physically.
I don’t have all that many pictures of me through the years. Yeah, there are a bunch from when I was a little kid that I should scan someday. And there are yearbook photos from school. But from the time I graduated high school until today, I’d be lucky to find even one picture per year. I sometimes think I should try to correct that, but I’m a lot more comfortable on the side of the camera that doesn’t steal your soul…
- As the Minnesota Senate hits a wall on stadiums, my state Senator seems to be putting a lot of political capital on the line. Larry Pogemiller may be
trying to put the heat on the governor
, but he’s suggesting totally new ways to finance the three stadia that the legislature have concerned themselves with. I continue to think that John Marty is showing better leadership here. [press-patch] - With a headline of Let us spray, the Observer takes a look at PT-141, an aphrodesiac that might actually work, on both men and women. And unlike Viagra, which seems to have mostly physical effects, the new drug goes straight to the brain. [fark!]
- Would these Japanese Mortgage Refinancing ads convince you to borrow money from these folks? Flash required. [turly]
- Mental note: travel insurance isn’t that good of a deal: Canadian in Mexico falls through travel insurance loophole because he was drunk when he got injured, so now he’s not covered. Hell, why bother buying the insurance at all if it’s not going to cover the majority of a vacation? [fark!]
- The next Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is this Sunday, April 30, 2006. I’m not sure if it’s a good thing I was already planning to go out taking pictures or not, since I suspect I won’t have time to make a pinhole lens before sunday. [photoshop news]
- Hmm. A May 1 immigrant boycott aims to ‘close’ cities with illegal immigrants walking off their jobs to demonstrate. I wonder how many are going to demonstrate against the employers that fire them for not showing up to work. As for stirring up resentment in middle America, which the article mentions, it’s already too late if the conversations at work are any indicator. Today’s Day By Day has a bit of commentary, too. [fark!]
