April 2009
4 posts
1 tag
In line!
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Travels
Graham, Kellan and I successfully made it to Menomonie. The ride was, fun, pleasently uneventful, and full of typical boy-talk.
We’re chilling in our room at Hotel 6 now, idly researching places to eat. Tomorrow, on to Minneapolis/St. Paul!
Joshua: My old history teacher is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest surviving child of two midget parents. He's six foot four, and both his parents are under four feet.
Mom: Wow, how'd they do that?
Karen: Sex?
March 2009
13 posts
Portland, OR
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Seattle, Day 3
Tuesday, March 17
We packed up and checked out of our hotel late morning. After a couple errands (including my purchase of a new Nikon P80), we headed south on Highway 5, en route to Astoria, OR.
Along the way we stopped at Skamokawa park along the Colombia river. It was just barely drizling, and we had a beautiful view of the river and mountains. There was a large, sandy excavation in the...
Seattle, Day 2
Oops! Forgot to post last night!
We had a pretty relaxed day yesterday, but we saw some pretty cool things anyway.
We left the hotel mid to late morning, and walked the couple blocks to the monorail station. On the way in on the Amtrak, we had seen a huge Salvation Army thrift store, so, of course, mom wanted to go there. The monorail was very cool, but very short (less than 2 miles). From...
“She looks up at the building,
says she’s thinking of jumping.
She says...”
– Counting Crows (Round Here)
Mounted Cops
After seeing horseback police officers
Dad: I just want to see a chase.
Guy on street: Yeah, and I want the motherfucker to jump a fence.
Eating lunch in a great little mediteranean place.
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Fountain in downtown Seattle
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Seattle from the monorail
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On the monorail
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Breakfast at Best Western
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Credit and debit only.
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Seattle, Day 1
Laying in bed in our Hotel room after our first day in the Emerald City. My eyes are tired and I’m ready to call it a day, but I’m making myself journal every night.
We rolled into the station at 12:30 this afternoon, and took a cab to our hotel. After checking in and hauling our gear into room 329 at the Best Western Executive Hotel, we all took showers, which were much needed after...
Mom buying chinese art at pike place market
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February 2009
1 post
Winter Parking
This morning I woke up, looked out the window, and what did I see? The neighbors thought it would be a good idea to put their car directly in front of my driveway, completely blocking me in.
I thought about calling the cops. Instead, I scribbled a note on a peice of paper (“How am I supposed to get to school when I can’t even get out of my driveway?”), stuck it under their...
January 2009
4 posts
School Journaling: Inauguration
Written for my Written Communication class (assigned subject: the inauguration)
Barack Hussein Obama officially became the 44th president of the United States of America at noon yesterday. So many of us have worked so hard for this for so long, and it’s finally here. All those hours of phone banking, canvassing, and handing out literature really did pay off. In the days before the election,...
“Now she puts the kid away,
and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her...”
– Neil Young (Rockin’ In The Free World)
Autoresponder
justus.thane@gmail.com: Are you really there?
graham.system32@gmail.com: (Autoreply) dude, I am so not hereeee.
Early-life Crisis
Do I want to make money? Yes. Do I want to make a decently largish amount of money? Yes. Do I want to work in an office my whole life? Not particularly. Is it worth the decently largish amount of money? I don’t know.
I’m in school, and I’m doing great. I find the stuff we do interesting, but I’m not convinced I’d want to do it forever, and I’m not convinced I...
December 2008
4 posts
Cars
This is insane.
The night before yesterday, Ted and I were going through the WITC parking lot, and my transmission died. We left the car there, and walked 22 blocks home at 11:45 at night.
Obviously, I couldn’t drive to school, so I was going to catch a ride with Ted this morning. When we tried to leave at 7:30, Ted’s car wouldn’t start. He had left the dome light on the night...
Dead car. School. 22 blocks. Fifteen degrees below zero. Cold.
Cop Out
Well. It’s been a while since my last update, so for that reason, this one won’t be long. I don’t want to overload you with new information.
November 2008
1 post
In recent news, Obama Wins!
It’s just incredible. Thank you, everyone.
September 2008
5 posts
MY GOD, Make some SENSE. Does it really have to be that convoluted?
Stop, Drop & ...Wave?
As I was passing Northland College on the way home from work just now, there was this shorter, stocky guy walking along the side of the street. As I got closer to him, he start waving at me, and just as I passed him he threw himself to the ground and away from the street (he was already a good 20 feet from the street).
In my rearview mirror I watched him get up, brush himself off, start walking,...
I hate that moment when you realize that you left your book somewhere, and now you can’t read it in bed.
Campaignin' for some Changin'
“Hello, my name is Justus, and I’m volunteering for Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change here in Ashland. Could I take a minute of your time?”
Along with Graham and Kellan, I volunteered at our local Obama campaign office today, soliciting phone calls.
I made somewhere in the neighborhood of sixty phone calls over the course of a couple hours. The vast majority of the...
How Low Can You Go
I saw an SUV in Ashland today with a Bush/Cheney ‘04 sticker and a McCain/Palin ‘08 sticker. How sick can you get?
August 2008
10 posts
School
For all you out there waiting for exciting, informative updates, I had my second day of school today in WITC’s IT-Network Specialist program.
I have a fairly relaxed schedule (since I’m still working as well), and so far I like it a lot. I think I’m going to stay very interested in most of the subject materal, since it’s right up my alley.
For my Cisco class, I’m...
“Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If...”
– Flobots (Stand Up)
The Flobots are a band and a movement for change. I strongly recommend checking them out at www.fightwithtools.org. Also give their political webcomic a look at flobots.net.
MOM.
ARE. WE. LEAVING. FOR. GING’S. ON. A. SATURDAY. OR. SUNDAY. FOR. THANKSGIVING. ?.
THANKS.
LOVE. YOU.
Government Employees
My poor mother sits alone in her office in the park at night laughing at smiley faces in Gmail Chat.
Band name idea: Handguns for Nuns.
“A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes...”
– Harry Browne (via onherway)
Ballsy...
It's just after eleven at night, and I'm sitting outside the library. This younger woman with dreads walked around the corner just now, and started talking to me.
Woman: Whatcha doing?
Me: Oh, you know..checking my email and stuff.
Woman: In the middle of the sidewalk?
Me: Yeah. (Nods at library) Wireless Internet.
Woman: Nice..I like it. Ballsy, but nice.
July 2008
26 posts
“Step out the front door like a ghost
Into the fog where no one notices
The...”
– Counting Crows (Round Here)
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
– Bejamin Franklin
City Life
I’ve been staying at Tom’s house while he’s out of town, and I’m quite adjusting to “city” life.
Saturday night Graham and I stayed at our friend Brandon’s house. The next day, we sat around for a while, and eventually went swimming. At around 5pm, Graham and decided to bike the trail that loops through Ashland. It turned out to be much better than I had...
