I'm a sell out, kat gets a bloom and mini meets lacie
kat has tried her thumb at orchids before. the end result was a nice pot of orchid growing medium and some shrivelled up plant resting on top. the flower lady at our local hardware store raved about how easy it is to care for orchids. so, she gave it another go, this time following instructions and using the special orchid food. HOO-RAY! this orchid has provided us with two new blooms.
we have some photos I did for a show many years back. they had been in storage for a good while. some insects had wandered between the matt and the glass where they became stuck. kat had asked if I would clean them out. I opted to leave them as it was an act of nature, "it adds to the authenticty" I rebutted with an air of art snobbery.
I sold out. I cleaned the bugs out this week.
mac mini gets married: our house music server has a 40 gb hard drive. it didn't take long before I filled it up. we finally moved the itunes library to a lacie 1TB external hard drive. now I have room to get back to burning my boxes of cds that have been taking space in the garage.
many of those discs have not seen any play in a decade. in the process, I have fallen in love with dinosaur jr all over again. which led me to search youtube where I found an amusing video that includes trailer park trash muppets enjoying shots of milk in a honky tonk.
I'm glad this election is over. the phone has quit ringing. I don't appreciate that a robot has been calling at least once a day, playing some recording made by the wife of some local politician. I should have made a note of who she was plugging so I could make a point of NOT voting for her husband.
the kid's school had their own presidential election where obama also won. that was no surprise as the enthusiasm in the neighborhood and around austin has been ... enthusiastic. when we drove the back roads on the way from camping a few weeks ago I was surprised to see so many mccain signs posted along the side of the rd. they were few and far between around here. 64% of travis county voters voted for obama, but tx as a whole went to mccain.