dawn this morning!

If anyone is interested, warships are sidling into the Sea of Oman, and the War Powers act has been re-tooled to sanction use of tactical nukes. For more information and means to PROTEST impending action against Iran, please follow this link.

and if you like it, hang out and read some of my blog, or explore zaadz: a very cool place, utterly humans becoming, mostly. some already are, but no telling what -- perhaps a (very) different branch on this tree... (and lots of goop, too, so wear your mudders and lock in your 4wd!

hehe ;-)

I skiiiiied!
and fell.

and it was worth it.

(pictures soon!)

love all!
maya

hey guys! check out maya's cd cover on her blog! she was pushing that clock, boy, but man, the results! stunning!

oh, that pushing the clock trick might be like me, too! (see previous comments for context...)

hehe;-)

cold here, snowing, blowing. purty! brrrr!

how's the beach, brian? how's your sweetie? you got job yet? still playing music? strange how life twists and turns...

hugs, all!

ps: if you see uncle sam, could you usher him to the border? he says i owe him money this year, and i think he has overstayed his welcome.

so we are at a standoff.

i wonder who will win?

stay tuned!

Just wanted to tell everyone a little story. ever since i got my new computer i've complained that it doesn't have any office software and that its all so expensive blablabla. so anyway, i'm working on the cd package designs this morning (the day before i ahave to print it) and, you guessed it, photoshop and illustrator both crash on me. (i just want to say that this was a program problem not a problem with the computer.) so then i'm scrambling to reinstall the programs and looking for the disks and guess what i find! AppleWorks 6, the mac affice suite, that grandma gave me two years ago. awesome! yes, i'm very happy about this, although a bit sheepish that its been sitting on my bookshelf in plain view for the last six months. and then i think, this sounds like something mom would do. heehee. thanks grandma!

ps, everything is working fine now, so i can finish this tonight. wish me luck!

hello! the sun was so bright, i didn't see them at first...

of course, they saw me!

(if you click on the pictures, they get really big...)

was it something i said?

shy neighbor

bill moyers documentary: the secret government

south woods at sunset

hey all. not much. good talking to mom yesterday. She agreed to get off her duff and take herself out for a cup of coffee at the local beat cafe. Read the community rag. Smile at strangers. Chat it up some!

Because she deserves a good time.

Maybe take a camera and hunt interesting?

But if anybody is close by, i bet she would love the company!

So Maya is going skiing. And she got to lay vocals down on Hank's new cd. I am soooo jealous! Green!

And so proud. So I say "break a leg" on the second, but not on the first... hehe

and then maybe going on a 30 day expedition down the grand canyon?

wow. wow! (that is double-wow)

tell us more, Maya!

hey all, not much new, not much old....

great to hear you are enjoying our sunny southland, brian. Lord, that has to be a shock!

OB used to be very cool, very hip. lots of sand. pounding surf. surf pounders. but i didn't know that people who lived in OB actually worked legitimate jobs.

have you thought of engaging in more nefarious activity?

hehe...

;-)

good luck brian and sweetie, blessings all!

Howdy everybody... just figured I'd give you all an update on what's going on for me. We are now residing in San Diego and hunting for jobs (darn elusive things sometimes.) We're in a neighborhood called Ocean Beach (the OB) and so far, it's pretty cool, if a little slow on entertainment opportunities. Everybody's still fairly healthy, and not too unhappy. But yeah, that's about the only news here, so I'll see you later.

This is what I've been breaking my brain on recently. As you can see, I have connected the cable box, the receiver/amplifier, the vcr/dvd player, the tv and the tape deck into one seamless entertainment center.

We now hear in six-speaker surround and see in lcd flat-panel. All I lack at this point is a powered subwoofer. Whuppee-doo. It is said that I can connect my i-Book with all its beautiful features into the wiring nest and fully integrate the system into the remote so that in order to fully live, I will never have to get up from the couch at all (exclamation point). Love to all from Wired Grandma.

i sort of watched the game. there were some great parts, but toward the end there it got a little pathetic. I, being female perhaps, was interested in how their clothes stayed so clean, and learned much about the benefits of a sand-based field.

it was so clean and i was so innattentive that for the first half of the game, i didn't even know it was raining -- i thought the camera was fogged up.

Michael watched the whole game without slumber, and that is a superbowl record!

And i missed halftime completely. Who is Prince? And i love irrelevant dancing girls! i love all the underdogs!

so i rooted for chicago. i could have gone either way, but they seemed so desperate there toward the end.

saw a great movie the other day, one that slipped by me in the 90's: This is My Father, starring james caan, the quinn brothers...

maya, thank you for asking, but we didn't throw her a party. nobody has ever thrown any party for anybody for a long, long time!

our cleaning lady, truly a sharp-eyed, sharp-beaked caustic, asked me when the agency is closing. she said she sees all the signs. i can't tolerate her well enough to pump for details.

persephone keeps going into heat, loudly. sleep is at a premium.

thanks for enjoying the pix. there are many thousands more where those came from! i am saving for a higher-end camera.

hey, i just noticed i can hyphenate in the dark! yay! victory is MINE.

The tv is belching "news" in spurts and dribbles. In texas we bow to Merck and observe a moment's silence where Molly used to be... I am having a little trouble with this new vaccine. Too complicated. I mean, start before they are active, re-up every five years for the rest of their lives?

Why don't we just tell them that sex causes cancer, and kill numerous, yeah countless, birds with one volley?

Michael grumbles and groans as he de-reclines, stretches and snaps the elastic on his underwear. Well, even superman has to start his day somehow.

i have been futzing with computer that needs memory, much like myself, experiencing lots of gaps, some big enough to drive that damn truck through. crashing twenty times a day.

you mac people maka-me-thick! hehe

i put a new soundcard in and added on a bunch of photo-stuff that would choke even the heartiest macappetite.

i can kill anything!

off n away. my tuesday night thing is diluting way down. At first there were three originators, then a few years back one moved, then a couple months ago another. And now #3 is in a marriage crisis and can no longer host.

so we are orphaned. abandoned out in the frigid cold. and it is hard to stay a "we" like that...

street urchins, frozen finger-stubs...

matchstick musicians, noses pressed against the glass...

blizzard hooowling

and it ain't even chicago!

so, grandma, did ayla ever write to you? i gave her the .mail.net address -- is this still viable?

breakfast! bye!

Believe it or not I also watched the superbowl mostly to view the highly touted commercials, which as it turned out, were less interesting than the game (at least the first quarter). I was fortunate to miss the half-time show, since los gatos knocked off and broke a couple of bottles of spritzer and wine in the kitchen and I had glass and liquid to clean up. I had hoped for a new commercial from my beloved pillagers, but not so. Oh well

I agree with Maya about Macs -- my own computer is an iBook with Word installed so that Vern can use it for his schoolwork -- which he does and will until we can pick up his HP pc on Wednesday. Us Mac people just laugh at pc salespeople and users. But Vern of course would not be caught dead using any technology which I believe in so that he can maintain his pose of highly intellectual technophobe. His loss, my gain (I wish everything in his world didn't have to be a competition -- maybe that's just men grouse grouse).

A beautiful day in the neighborhood. Time to walk to Bow & Arrow Park at the end of our street to stretch my lungs. Have a great day everyone.

bears lose. we lost.
and now chicago can go back to feeling sorry for itself again. it was just weird how happy everyone was in this subzero weather for the past two weeks.
(but at least i'm not rex grossman.)
i have to say, though, there could have been a worse team to lose to. the colts are so wholesome. and nice.

oh well.

mom, sounds like things are going well. i'm glad that lady got fired, poor timing though. did they at least wait until after the party? and your pictures are beautiful. that cat looks like my machina.

grandma, so nice to see you on here. good luck with the pc business. those things give me headaches compared to my mac.

ok love all, talk soon,
maya

Amanda, Vern, Michael walking toward Mission Xavier del Bac (under restoration), Tucson, 1-20-2007

Hi everyone. All is well here in Flagstaff -- I've been busting my brains trying to integrate all our home theatre connections with computer inputs and etc. Vern was finally forced to acquire a pc for his classwork and I am trying to tie the whole electronic thing together anditisdrivingmecrazy (!) ..... where is the Geek Squad when you need them? Actually, the Geek Squad is out of Prescott, about 90 miles away. Oh well, I'll just keep on keepin' on.

Mary your photos are great. I love the cat especially.

More later ..........

Well, we finally got some winter, and the moon this morning was splendid. I kept having to thaw my fingers!

drives me nuts! the cat was supposed to go down here. but if i cut and paste it, it shows that i did but it doesn't display. but anyway, that is the cat that belongs to Mike's Music, where i get my guitar lessons. I know, it looks like a brothel!

happy to report michael got a raise and his knee is much improved.

Ayla is back to school full time, general studies.

The secretary we had who was so rude got fired on her birthday. Damn! can't anything be simple?

Hope everyone is enjoying the videos and stuff! There is lots more where that came from...

I have been walking my pedometer. Fun, but no appreciable effects yet.

Hope all are well and happy!