Alpha

Reading about cancer today and in the comments section of the article I found this snarky reply that actually made me laugh.

A self proclaimed alpha is really just an epsilon watching a nova special about the universe and buying a Stephan Hawking book to sit on the coffee table.

Ouch? hahaha

Uzumaki

When I lived in Maryland I used to visit a certain Blockbuster video store to check out their large selection of foreign films. I recall picking up one movie box that instantly cracked me up. It was a Japanese horror film about Spirals. At the time, it seemed that every month there would be a new Japanese horror remake so I paid no attention.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of spirals and spiral type shapes. The other day I spent some time walking by the river and was just mesmerized by these vortexes in the water near the edge. Some would linger and then disappear while others were constant and would get bigger and smaller. Guess I should have taken that Fluid Dynamics class in college eh?

Anyway, I don't think the spirals are out to get me, but it's funny how my brain has decided to pick them out lately. I even mowed my backyard in a spiral pattern today!

So I looked up that movie and its in the title of this post. Here's a hilarious trailer for it. Though the ending may lead you to believe it's the Japanese version of The Hills.

os veix3

The title is the 8th track from the new Autechre album. Their song names always crack me up. However, they can truly get away with being cryptic because much of their music is complex layers of pattern jumbles for the subconscious. Their new album is exciting for me since it seems a tiny bit more melodic than their usual stuff.

Speaking of music, I have never tried to run with headphones. I don't think I would like it for a number of reasons, but I've often wondered how interesting a contrast it would be though to run with something like Autechre or Steve Roach playing rather than the usual upbeat menu.

Click Here if you wanna listen to OS Veix3

Then for contrast this video is way more chaotic..or is it? However, the animation done by an independent artist is absolutely brilliant!

In normal news Asa fell off the swing today, and I laughed. She busted pretty hard too, but she was fine. Later she would not go down the slide because there were small flies on the slide! I don't know where this sudden bug fear is coming from. (ok I know where hehe )

Had a couple of showings since Sunday and we lowered the price. The last people to look really liked our place, but they're trying to find a ranch style in the same price range. Dat ain't gunna happen babee, so that's good news for us. Maybe we'll get an offer yet.

Bi?

Some of you already know that I am bonkers about the movie Whip It. Maybe it makes me a sissy boy, but whatever. I dig it! I actually went out and bought the soundtrack on cd. Cd's are the next vhs no? Well I guess I'm still behind the curve since my rickety ole Win 2K isn't supported by itunes or amazon's album downloader.

Anyway I was looking around at Whip It pics and came across a set of pics of Ellen Page and Drew B. in some interesting poses and one where they're kissing. Now I know one simple pic obviously for marketing or whatever isn't an admission to being bisexual, but it made me wonder about what seems to be this increasing level of bisexuality in my periphery. Is anyone else sensing that being Bi is the new gay?

She's right!

It was a frantic morning. I was trying to get the house cleaned up for our open house showing today and found myself running out of time. Liz was at work this morning, so it was ten min till noon, and I was doing a last minute vaccuum of the rug to pick up dog hair and someone pulled up into my driveway! I was out of the house five minutes later as my realtor was pulling in. I don't know where the car that pulled up went.

After all that panic, we had not one person come to look at the house. Feedback from our last showing was that the other bedrooms looked to be too small for their kids furniture. These kids must have some nice furniture :/ 20 days on the market and not much feedback from several showings. We are debating on lowering the price.

I did get to run outside today without pushing the stroller and pulling the dog at the same time. I had recently read another blog called Ironmom, and she was talking about running in the rain. Turns out she really enjoyed her wet run. I got a nice light sprinkle as well as some crazy wind with some very cool cloudscapes.

Last time I was in the rain, I was in Colorado at night , putting up a tent. That was extreme anti-fun! This run however was so refreshing. I forget how wonderful things can smell and the steamy fog is always cool.

Density

We've been looking at places to rent in the north LasVegas area. Many of the homes are very nice. I was looking at LV with google earth and it's kinda interesting to see how close all the homes are there compared to where I live now in NE. Notice the dearth of green in vegas...heeello desert!

In serious news, I am just in awe of the disaster taking place right now in the Gulf Of Mexico. This site has some incredible high res footage from space of many things, but you can really get a perspective on how big it is from these sat images. CHECK IT

And lastly, my shoulder has decided to get a bit inflamed today. I hope it's just passin by and not stopping for any serious pain. It's frustrating to me, because I didn't do much of anything last two days. It's just out of nowhere again so it seems. Anyway, some vitamin M and rest and hopefully I'll wake up without issue.

Whip it good!

April is gone gone gone. With it goes a lot of stress, pain, and discomfort. But hey, I managed to keep from buying a pack of cigarettes so it's all good!

LIVESTRONG Will Robinson! Now I just need to get rid of this frakkin rash!

Had some dicey weather last night. Nothing to get too worried about as the sirens never went off, but ever since that one day, I pay a little more attention.

Here's a pic of a crazy cloud that was over my house. It looks to me like some kind of alien tornado factory.