Pretty pictures

I don't have the time (to be truthful, I'm just too lazy) to write a decent blog entry today, but I did finally upload some photos from my recent excursions to Mexico and the snowy Northwest into my flickr account. Go check them out! Just click on that animated badge thingy down there on the right. The one that says, "Pictures! Oh Boy!" Yeah, that! Click away! I even took the time to label and describe the photos--which is precisely why I am no longer interested in writing any more about them now.

I will tell you one logistical detail that is probably not apparent from the pictures--that Mexico trip we took began in Tecate. We drove down and visited several wineries on the way to Ensenada from there and then spent the night in a fancy Best Western with way better decor than they have in the states. And the photo at the top is just a lucky shot; for once I actually captured the intensity of the colors of the twilight sky.

Woe. Whoa. Wo wo wo

(This is starting to sound like a Howard Jones song, no? All you younglings out there will have no idea what that sentence meant--go find somebody old to ask.)

The breaking news is that I still don't have my own internet connection. That's actually fairly old news, but since I didn't bother to tell anybody, it's new to this blog, and therefore, news! At any rate, just over four weeks ago I told Earthlink in no uncertain terms to go to hell. After 6 months of horrible service and being charged double I quit. They still owe me money, but that's another story...what's important to you all here is that I'm fairly unreachable these days except by old-fashioned means--you know, like the telephone or even (gasp) MAIL. As in the kind you have to put stamps on and drop in a big blue box. I have no land line. I have no microwave. I have no internet access. I own a television but I've never watched it. How in the world have I managed to live all these months without regressing to a grunting fur-clad troglodyte? It's a mystery, it really is. Maybe it's only the fact that I don't eat animals that's saved me...you know, there were no vegetarian cavemen. What would they have worn? Potato skins?

But I digress. This was just supposed to be another short update on this convoluted affair that is my life. Here's the rest of the scoop: I'm no longer having any fun. Well, that may be somewhat of an exaggeration (just how much, I'll never tell). But I am home now, and back working my few days a week at the brewery. Without that job I'd be toast, emotionally speaking. I do need to find a real job, however, which continues to elude me--perhaps largely due to the fact that I've only applied for two new positions and my motivation is sorely lacking. Hmmm. One would think that the prospect of not being able to pay my rent would be highly motivating, but that's if you're talking about normal people.

I promise to write again when I have happier things to report and when I actually remember to bring all those photos of my trips over here so I can post them. 'Til then, you will simply have to content yourself with this lackluster herding of verbiage.

Worry No More!

Dearest bloggees, it has come to my attention that certain individuals are suffering from increased stress levels due to my lack of bloggage. I am so sorry. I am alive! I am well! Don't worry one more little minute about my health and welfare. For the last three weeks or so I have simply been spending too much time out doing things to sit down and write about them. Kind of like when you're on an amazing vacation and it's utterly beautiful and thrilling and you are spending so much time enjoying how amazing it is that you don't stop for one second to take photos of all the amazingness. And happily, much of my recent busy-ness has been of the sort that is amazing and fun.

The nutshell version, that I will expand upon later: I have been working a lot more at the brewery, I visited some long-lost friends over the holidays, I spent several days around the changing of the year in Mexico and in El Centro with really good friends, and right now I'm up in Washington reveling in the trees and the rain and the clouds. Busy but happy. This is going to be a good year. You think?

ps: Monica and Steve said hi.