The Green Room

I’m too lazy right now to add commentary, but here are pictures from Croquet.

It is strangely satisfying (and also completely disgusting) when I wake up in the morning and have to blow my nose so much that my ears pop.

All I wanted to do when I got home last night was to have some tea, have a nice hot soak, and go to bed. Maybe watch a little Futurama. Instead, just as I was about to get comfy, Redshirt comes home and asks how would I like to go over to Lake [...]

There is nothing more amazing than watching plants absorb water and react to sunlight.

Unrelated events on the Blogmass today have caused the following madness to play on a seemingly endless loop in my head:
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men,
“It is I, Captain Vegetable!”

Today’s theme: botany.

But there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune.

For reasons of nostalgia/family loyalty, politics, and taste, I tend to frequent a particular Portland based chain of coffee shops. When I first moved back to Portland and hadn’t found a job yet, I spent almost every afternoon at their Division store just to have somewhere to be that wasn’t my parents’ house. [...]

So, Redshirt was originally going to be coming to Croquet with me, but his manager wouldn’t give him all the time off, and I ended up having to change his flight to arrive on Saturday night. Now, after all of that was finally sorted out, with a high level of headache, he just got [...]

The police spokesman said the suspect was arrested “for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog.”