Walk Score

My neighborhood only scored a 49. :(

This made me very happy tonight.

I'm walking down 4th and this girl comes running up to me and says, "I love you hair. Where do you get it cut?"
Seeing as I hadn't had a hair cut in a couple of weeks, I was skeptical but honest and I told her I usually go to Rudy's.
She says, "I'm over at Gene Juarez and I have an opening right now. If you'd like to come in, I'll give you a free haircut." Disclaimer: this is not an actual Gene Juarez, it's their training salon on 4th and Stewart.
But how do you say NO to a free haircut?
Well... maybe the answer is easier for some than others.
Anyway, I'm just easy-to-manipulate enough to say yes.
So... I got a free haircut today. Not bad either.

Poll #1206482 For your consideration
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What do you think if you receive an email with a line at the end saying "Please consider the environment before printing this email."

this is entertaining me today.....

My boss sent this around at work:

This may become one of my more favorite-est things: WeFeelFine.org (Careful, it's not always safe for work.)

so, after all these years I finally coughed up for a paid account.
Don't worry about the chickens. I'm just goofing around.
But, just because I can, I give you a poll.


Poll #1203087 to chicken, or not to chicken?
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Should she keep the chickens?

Should she return to Seattle?

This is interesting.
It's a USDA chart that shows the percentage of American's income spent on food.

- In 1929, at the beginning of the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, etc..., the country had roughly $83 billion in disposable income and American's spent roughly 23% ($19.5 billion) of our income on food.

- When my parents were born, around 1946, the country had around $161 billion in disposable income and we spent 22% ($35 billion) of our income on food.

- By the time my sister and I were born, around 1977, there was $1.4 TRILLION in disposable income and we spent 13% ($192 billion) of our income on food.

- In 2006, we had (are you ready for this?) $9.5 TRILLION in disposable income and we spent roughly 10% ($947 billion) on food.

( this is what that looks like )

Things I do not know:
1) are these numbers adjusted for inflation? (I'm inclined to believe that they are.)
2) where did this data come from? (Aside from saying "the USDA website".)
3) isn't this a good thing? (I want to find some stats on rates of malnutrition vs. obesity covering the same amount of time. I also want to find stats on farm income.)
4) there are a bunch of other things that I want to learn more about to understand this.... but I don't know what they are.
5) until then, Stuffed and Starved also looks interesting.

Y'know The Tempations and their oh-so-smooth dancing?

Imagine one of them dancing alone.

Now, imagine one of them doing a pole dance

... using a street sign

... on the corner of 3rd and Lenora.

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In other news, J and I watched Fay Grim last night.
I know that I'm probably the last person on earth to have seen this movie.
But, in case I'm not, you might want to see it.

This weekend, I will introduce him to MST3K.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7437244.stm

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This sounds *too* familiar. Like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee familiar.

So, do you think they'll open a casino?
I know. I'm going to hell. It had to be said. Outloud.

We got to hear Sandor Ellix Katz talk about fermenting food and give a little demonstration at the Bastyr Food and Herb Fair this weekend.
We also got to hear Jennifer Hahn talk about collecting and cooking different seaweeds.
So cool.

Finally: Co-op Financial Services ATM Locator (for those of us who bank at credit unions and can never seem to find an ATM!)

Yesterday was absolutely sunny and beautiful. It got to around 88 degrees at noon. (so hot!)
We decided to work in the garden.
I, personally, was so badly injured that the doctors could only save my life by replacing vital parts of my body with lobster parts.
I am now part lobster.
BUT, we got squashes and cucumbers interred and trellised, and the second herb spiral built and planted (with lavender, sage, fever few, chamomile, and peppermint). Jon put comfrey and parsley in the other spiral.
Also, we think we found a good home for the strawberries. AND I planted sunflowers.
(I found seeds for Delicata Squash last night. We're going to start them here shortly.)
We're also hoping to use the squash vines (grow babies, grow!) to shade the more shade-loving lettuces and beets and things while we wait for our new apple tree to be able to provide such shading. (Sadly, this will not work for a couple of years.)

I've just finished my third Daniel Quinn book, The Holy.
I want to compare it to American Gods, but I don't think that's fair.
The Holy makes American Gods look silly.
I'm a little annoyed that I doubt I'll ever be able to read it the same way again. That was one of my VACATION books!

It's an expansion of Quinn's ideas on deity and humans' place in the world combined with a kind of mystery story. (Ooo! And there are Satanists!)
If you're going to read Quinn, read Ishmael and The Story of B first.
If you're not absolutely livid, move on to the others.

agentcooper, I'm looking at you!
(The next one on my list is called After Dachau.)

Google maps has a feature where you can get directions via public transit.
They give you alternative routes and then map it out.


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-or the Chicago version -


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