Maine. I have moved to Maine for the summer. I am doing an internship at a local hospital - clinical pastoral education (CPE). It is a summer long unit where I will learn to be a chaplain, learning how to be a front-line sort of counselor and minister. At this point (approx 10 hours until I show up) I am pretty excited. We’ll see if that changes as the weeks go on.
I left Dubuque last Friday, and stayed in Cleveland the first night. The next day I drove to Cooperstown, NY, getting there in the evening. All of the hotels were either full or ridiculously overpriced for the holiday weekend. I ended up staying in a cabin at a campground. Not only did my cell phone not work, but their wireless didn’t get to the cabin - talk about roughing it.
The next morning, I had planned on going to the Hall of Fame. As I packed my truck up, I discovered that I only had one shoe in my possesion. I knew that I had been wearing them the day before, and I hadn’t really done anything outside of my truck - it must have fallen out of the passenger side or something. Losing a shoe! That sucks! Right? I had spent 3 years molding them to my feet exactly. A new pair is not only going to be less comfortable, but also cost me 60 bucks.
Screw that.
I thought back, and remembered having stopped only once the previous evening, to move some things from the back of my truck to the cab. The sky ahead looked like it was about to pour. It was pretty neat looking, so since I was stopped I took acouple pictures while I was there. And then it started to rain. Hard. And it pretty much rained for the next 12 hours.
But, I, thought, had photo evidence of the exact location of where my shoe may have fallen. It was worth the trip, backtracking a dozen miles to milepost unknown - I just had to match the terrain to the photo, right? Here are the pics.
Actually, as I was driving back down that road looking for big field there in the picture, that right there on the side of the road was one solitary shoe. An adidas, soaked, but still alive. Unwearable for a few days, but still my cinderella-fitted shoe.
I always wondered why there are so many shoes on the sides of roads, I spose this semi-explains it.
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Finally, because this is what we should all buying after we have sold our gold to Ed McMahon.
Cardio for Indie Rockers
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February 23rd, 2009 in
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Gallup has done a poll on the Importance of Religion between the states in America. Even though 65% say that they are religous, look at this here map.
No real surprises. The Bible Belt is well girded, and aside from those cold northern oceanic states, people are all sorta religious. Seattle is still not a proGod place, but I could have told you that.
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I bought a boxset of TV shows called Classic TV Westerns 300 Episodes
. It is, as it says, a collection of old Westerns from the 50s and 60s, most of which I think are public domain.
One of the shows is called The Cisco Kid.
It is about a sorta classic kids Western mold, a brave western caballero who wears a silly sequined outfit and has a fat and oafish sidekick with a silly accent. I looked it up on the internets and found that it was orignally a radio show which had over 600 episodes, On TV it ran for 6 years, and had over 150 episodes.
My favorite part is that at the begining of the show it says O. Henry’s classic character, the Cisco Kid. But it turns out, “in O. Henry’s original story, he was a non-Hispanic character and a cruel outlaw.” Which is pretty much the complete opposite of this show.
It is in color, which is novel, and the stories are thin but fun. Here is an episode at the Internet Archive.
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December 13th, 2008 in
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These were from Galena, IL, today.
Here is the bluff that we can see from our windows at Sunset.
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Here are some random autographs from my collection.
Alex Trebek, with his greasy hair and dago mustache.
Dan Quayle, the forty-fourth Vice President of the United States, 1989–1993. I haven’t made fun of him since he sent me an autographed picture. So you shut your mouth too.
Christopher Knight, formerly known for cracking voiced Peter Brady, but lately as the VH1 celebrity reality shows. Keep the faith, indeed.
Tim Roth, who was one of those that I never expected to get anything back, cause he’s one of those cool guys who doesn’t need the approval of silly fans who live in South West Washington, so why waste his time signing a picture and mailing it?.
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I am a member of a site called PaperbackSwap, where you can sign up and exchange books. It is pretty swell if you like to read and don’t mind used books or going to the post office.
Anyway, today I got a book in the mail, which is not very mentionable. But before I tossed out the packaging, I noticed that there were some really neat stamps on it. Not just that, but older, very random stamps from the early 1980s (1980 and 1984 Olympics!). Since the value never changes, just postal rates, they are just as usable. But I thought it’d be a pity to just toss them. So I scanned them for everyone else to enjoy.
(click the picture for detail)
PS. Philately is the study and collecting of revenue and postage stamps
PPS. If you sign up for PaperbackSwap, put me down as a reference, so i can get a free book, k thanks.
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Since I am a student, and technically unemployed, I have decided that I should use any extra time that I have to learn to bake properly. Not cakes or pies or things like that, but bread. Good, good bread.
So here are my first two experiments:
The first ones were round jobs, boules, which i used the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
. But I realized that I don’t want short cuts. I want real bread.
I then decided to start looking for real recipes for boulangers in France, and came across this one. It was for baguettes. Here are the results:
Well, I will keep trying.
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I am a diagnosed Obsessive Compulsive. This is pretty annoying, especially when it comes to checking doors and irons. But, it also has its benefits, which i don’t notice until later. What happens is that I usually get completely obsessed with something for a period of time, and spend countless hours on a hobby that I will eventually lose interest in and forget about. This has resulted in HUGE Star Wars and Star Trek collections, knowledge of obscure baseball trades in the 1980s, ancient roman coins, posters, books, or whatever else interests me at that moment.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed for a good chunk of time with collecting autographs. Consequently, I have a box of signed 8×10s from celebrities and politicians, which sits in my closet waiting to be moved to the next storage place. I can’t get rid of them, but they aren’t really useful. Sure I can frame and display my prized autograph from the legendary late Phil Hartman. But what do I do with my Sally Jesse Raphael one? You can’t throw it out. At least I can’t.
So, my solution is that I will just start scanning them from time-to-time and posting them on my blog. So, to begin with, here is the one that was floating around on the floor of my office here for the last few weeks (which is probably what inspired me to do this whole thing anyway).
Here you are people. My Childhood hero, Bob Vila.
Not kidding, he was my hero. My mom tells me of a story about going a boat show in Portland, and not wanting to leave because Bob Vila was going to be visiting later. We used to watch This Old House as a family every Sunday (as well as Hometime and the New Yankee Workshop). Even when he got fired from PBS (for that shill Steve Thomas), we still followed his show Home Again.
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Cowltiz County Washington has always voted Democrat. They didn’t vote for Bush either time, and Obama won handily. (They even voted for Mondale in 1984. MONDALE IN 1984, PEOPLE!)
But, even with that support, they still loves them some guns. And, for some reason they think that one of the first thing President Obama will do is ban all gun sales (even though if you actually looked up his stance, he supports the second amendment, and that gun laws should be decided on the local level).
Anyway, here is screen capture of the headline from the Daily News:
What a picture!
Here is a link to the article as well. Apparently, this is something that happens every four years:
While many retailers focused on the regulations expected to come from Obama’s administration, [a guy], who works at the gun counter at Bob’s and has been selling guns 28 years, said gun sales have increased around presidential elections for years. It doesn’t matter which party wins the White House.
“Every four years you’ll see a spike, whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat,” he said.
If the trend is consistent with previous years, sales will taper off in mid-December, then increase again around Obama’s inauguration Jan. 20 until tapering off once again.
Asked why, he said, “I don’t know. Just fear, I think. … Everybody has that freaking-out issue.”
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