Do Your Earholes a Favor

Go see Yonder Mountain String Band the next time they're in your town.

I saw them Wednesday night in Baltimore with G and the girl.

These guys are a lot more than a talented bluegrass band. Perhaps they're a bit newgrass. I don't know. They combine the instrumentation and skill of a bluegrass quartet with the energy and hippy-vibe of a jam rock band. I believe the term for that is Jamgrass. Ass-kickin' jam grass.

As an aside, this was the first show I'd been to at Ramshead Live. It's a really nice venue, and I look forward to seeing more shows there. The only thing disconcerting is that it looks like it was designed by the same people that did the Student Center at Colby.

Plus, they sold me a sweet looking poster:

Giddy With Antici....

Fitzmas may be as soon as today!

Also, occasionally, even the sheep-like american public (you remember them, the ones who thought Saddam was responsible for 9/11...) has a pretty good idea what's going on, at least according to this poll.

Wouldn't it be lovely if Mr. X went down along with the others?

okay, i really just wanted an excuse to post these two political cartoons.

back to work.

Blog Slacking

So I've been away from home a lot the last month or so. And I've been working in the field for almost all of that time. Strange how the combination of not being in front of a computer all day and dial-up access at night seems to lead to extremely minimal blogging. Alas. So there have been many things that could have been extended posts all their own, and instead they will be mushed in here.

The project in CT is actually really nice. My only real complaints are the poison ivy, which I've gotten twice, once horribly all over my forearms, and now, convenienty on my right eyelid and the bridge of my nose, both of which have neccesistated trips to the doctor for steroids. On the flip side, the job site is a defacto nature preserve, with lots of big old trees, lots of deer including a few enormous ten-point bucks, a beautiful lake filled with interesting birds (and reportedly some nice bass, though I haven't dropped a line yet). It can actually be hard to get work done because I'm so busy checking out the wildlife. Like the wood duck in the previous post, or the numerous woodpeckers of numerous varieties. Or my favorite, the turkeys, as seen above. I bet you've never seen turkeys sitting on a wire like songbirds, have you?

So, here's the brief updates. In the last month, in addition to the silliness in Bridgeport, I've:

Gone shooting with the lads. (This one probably will be a blog post all it's own eventually, but slack happens.) I'll try to come back to it, I promise.



Went to the Maryland Rennaisance Festival with the roomie and a bunch of the coworkers from Cville.

Did a few wee posts on the ol' Rich Planty Goodness.

Met up with the lady a number of times.

Saw Brazilian Girls at 9:30 Club (w/lady).

Got (just yesterday) the new Robert Jordan novel, Knife of Dreams. I wanted to get the new George RR Martin as well, but it turns out it won't be released for another two weeks or so. Review once I finish the damn thing, which might not be for a while...

Eagerly read my news and political blogs, in anticipation of the downfall of our current corrupt regime. Is it Fitzmas yet?

Officially decided to pursue the internship at Stonecrop. Still havent' finished that resume. That's why I'm blogging right now, because I am a master-procrastinater. I swear so help me, I'll finish the thing today. Still haven't figured out exactly what taking this internship will mean for me, career-wise or girl-wise. Or what I will do job-wise if I DON'T get the internship. Too many balls in the air right now.

Anyway. Let us hope for more blogposts in the coming days. In the meantime, I have work to do. There are plants to be attended to, and the resume has proven it won't be writing itself...

Why is the future scary?

Sometime very soon, my boss is going to want to talk to me about my intentions.

I'm still not sure what my intentions are.

In order to assist my meditation, I will focus on this wood duck I saw at work.

Damn. Still don't know my intentions.

I love Barney Frank. But not that way. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Were you aware that Roy Blunt was not the first choice floated to replace Delay?

From Suburban Guerrilla:

Reporters were asking the openly gay congressman Barney Frank if David Dreier was denied DeLay’s leadership position because he was too moderate – or because he was gay. Frank said it was because Dreier was too moderate, and then quipped, And I’m going to a moderate bar after work tonight.”