Oh my Goodness ! I am on holiday in the land of Christmas O' Plenty....! Every nook is filled with a ceramic icon of the holiday...It's almost spooky...

[willishrinx forgot to log in under his own accout - KY]

thats what i say !

Dear Maiden of Death,

Life has taken the sting from our sweet sorrow,
and the persistence of memory is a haunting laugh.

I see you as a young sixteen year old on the stone steps
of a sweet grind line. Mohawk deflated, cigarette dangling.
Long conversations and late night phone calls forgotten,
only a photograph reminds me of your face. One that you had
sent years ago, from an italian restaurant. You were seated in front of a painting which looked just like you.
somewhere in the basement of my parents house, you exist.

Maybe you thought of me, remembering glory days. Life goes hazy after a while.

Well, it is the weekend again...and every Friday at 4:30pm I ask myself, whatever shall i do with myself this weekend?

Here are my options:

1) Learn to Sail in Resurrection Bay / Kenai Fjords National Park
2) Flyfishing for Trout / Grayling up North
3) Flyfishing for Sockeye Salmon down South
4) Hike up Lost Lake Trail and camp out with the mutts.
5) Stay home and finish the flooring, fix the kitchen sink, paint the bathroom, paint the bedroom, fix the leaky gaskets in the jacuzzi, fix the motorcycle, fix the automobile, fix the bicycle, fix the other bicycle, put up bookshelves in the living room, kitchen, and sauna.

I am pretty sure that number five is NOT going to happen.

What will you do with your weekend?

In 1903, Ford Motor Company was founded on this day.

Subsequently, they helped pay for my college education.

Well, it must truly be summertime. While I was chatting with Dan on the phone, trying to recall Phil Freeman's name - these two wild gorillas came into the backyard. Knowing that feral gorillas can be dangerous, I shut the screen door while he passed by at three feet away.

But then I got to using my noggin' and thought that even though we are in a subtemperate rainforest, it isn't likely that there would be wild gorillas running about...so I set out to investigate. Armed with only my badge of courage and the smell of ripe bananas emitting from beneath my massive deltoids, I cornered the simian beasts against a grey wall of despair...

As I approached ever closer to get the wide angle shot, the beast charged past me and into the bush - so I gave chase !

And the simple creatures fell right into my trap, heading straight for Extremely John's house - where I knew we could subdue them, perhaps lulling them into slumber and carrying them upstairs next to their distant cousin, the albino hairy hippopotamus.

Unfortunately, John was not there to sing his sweet siren song (the same lyric that has obviously entranced PartyDude), and so I cleverly devised a plan to chase the wild thing up a tree, in hopes that he would somehow become dizzied by the heightened experience, and thus come crashing into some form of a narcoleptic state...

Time wore on, and I found myself growing bored with the arrangement.
and then I saw a butterfly, so I chased him instead.

THE END !

Treat yourself to a Guinness and the rousing sounds of the Irish National Anthem !

Prom Night was a good time.

the greatest day of the week.
I have been busy building a new website, so you will have to just keep your eyeballs on the flickr for a while to keep up with me. Also there is the Girdwood Blog, which I will post a link to at the bas of this page.

bye !

a hearty Happy Birthday to my Mom today ! I gave her a call at lunchtime during our second blizzard of the week - letting her know that I am safe and sound and glad that she is having another birthday. I hope that Kevin remembers to give her a big hug from the two of us that are far away. It all rests on his shoulders, right next to grad school and work, oh, and taking care of Dad.

Happy Birthday Mom!