independence, resolve

Here's a picture of the biggest flag I've ever seen.  You can't tell, because there's nothing to reference it by, so I was going to photoshop in a picture of a baby animal (for scale), but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Fourth of July.  Did boats, lake, grill, cards, bonfire stuff.
Came up with a one month trial life style adjustment: Read before bed.  Doing it for July (in lieu of watching bad tv on a laptop).  It's come to light that it's a pretty common phenomenon, and really, I just want to get out of the habit (and finish a book).  So, I'm trying it out, every night this month.  So far, so good.

Anybody else in?

do want

Here's some things I still want, but haven't happened yet, despite my willing


1.  Google calendars to automatically suggest that I make something a repeating annual event if it says "birthday".
2.  A backwards kind of v-chip for Netlix that filters out children's programming, so I don't have to sort through Pinky Dinky Do and Wonderpets in my new releases.
3.  Italics for FB.  For jokes.

moves

I want to go to some of these movies, and sit outside on my outside blanket, and drink beers.   Get in touch if you're into it.

smash

smashed mirrors, bad luck, etc.  It's true what they say, I guess?  Just out of order.

astro star laser projector

More dedicated readers may remember when I bought this number on eBay last week.  It came with English instructions for a different model with non-corresponding parts, and Korean instructions, which were for the right model, but decidedly hard to decipher.
With some help from Kamper, we got it this far:

It's a little wonkier than it's supposed to be, and mostly held together with scotch tape, but considering the instructions we had to work with, I think we (he) did pretty well.  Not so impressive during daylight though, am I right?

Here it is, lights-off.  It's so rad.

 

I have some adaptation ideas too, for brighter, more star filled interiors.

Lesson:  the 'Bay is full of treasures, if you can only put together the right key words.   This thing was like six dollars!

stars

I bought some star stickers.  I get to put one on my calendar every day I don't cut my hair.*  I'm also taking hair/skin/nails vitamins (almost) every day, with unmeasurable success.

So, we'll see where this gets me.  In like a month I want to have a half-hawk, but I need to see some gold star progress first.


*M and a few others have compared this to childhood "poop charts".  I never had one of those.

board

Here's some dusty old dirty old basementy board game boxes, headed for the trash.

Contents are now contained by Ikea.  Everything* fit perfectly into some serious KASSAT - two or three games in each one .  I got rid of the old taped up boxes, the worn out or too cheap playing cards, the broken pencils, the filled-out Balderdash cards, Scrabble scoresheets.















Now that I don't hate looking at these, I might even start playing a little more...Othello.   Or something.   Call me and we can play one.  It's been a while since I Stratego'd.

*everything fit beautifully with the exception of "Pente" (too long board) which, which I jammed in, anyway.  It's a keeper.