So I finally finished uploading and sorting my backlog of pictures from the past couple of years.

Yes Alicia, the hair pictures are up there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68084915@N00/

Somehow I ended up on the Canadian Harm Reduction Network mailing list at work. Most I send straight on to my co-worker who understands the issues, but this might be of interest to some in various communities.

Standard Margins
Contemporary Issues in Canadian Law and Sexuality
a conference where students, established scholars and community activists can share their work on emerging areas in law and sexuality discourse 
 
Vancouver, BC

27-29 April 2007

 
For full information,visit the conference website at

www.law.ubc.ca/events/2007/apr/04_29_2007_standard_margins.html

We're one of only four cities in the world to get this...

http://www.teslavancouver2006.com/Exhibition.html

(my boss passes on neat things!)

Because we don't have cable TV...

http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/

In honour of this weekend...

would someone please come over and smack my boyfriend? he's reading southern baptist church supply websites out loud and giggling.

Roaneskin and I were watching a game of Bocce tonight in the park.As the people threw their red or green balls towards the marker in the grass I turned to Roaneskin and asked "Do you remember the Puck factor?"

Let me explain.

The Puck factor is what occurs when you play Bocce in the vicinity of Xtalforge's cat Puck. All will be going well, points are being scored, distances argued over, when suddenly a black streak will rush the ball you've just thrown and attack it. Or attack the marker ball. If he's really on his game he attacks one and sideswipes the other. Suddenly someone who's had the winning throw isn't so close to the marker anymore. In fact they're usually now the farthest away. The cat provides the random bit of chance that was previously missing from the game.

The Puck Factor. Bocce will never be quite as exciting again without it.

For all those who thought wild animals were something serious...

Fox on a trampoline.

We're heading down to the Art Gallery in around an hour. It's the last weekend for the Brian Jungen exhibit and we promised ourselves that we wouldn't miss it. Cut it close but not miss it.

So, anyone interested in meeting us there?

out of season but really, who needs to wait for December with this?

http://www.southflorida.com/events/sfl-scaredsanta,0,2245506.photogallery?coll=sfe-events-headlines&index=1

If you score 42 or higher, you're spoiled.

Do you have:
(1) your own cell phone
( ) a television in your bedroom
(2) an iPod
( ) a photo printer
(3) your own phone line
( ) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
(4) high-speed internet access (i.e., not dialup)
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
( ) DVD player in bedroom
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
(5) a child free bathroom – mine, all mine!! (Oh and Rob’s)
(6) your own in-house office
( ) a pool
( ) a guest house
( ) a game room - if a poker table in the basement counts
(7) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) a stocked bar
(8) a working dishwasher (yah - me.)
( ) an ice maker
(9) a working washer and dryer
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
(10) expensive sunglasses
(11) framed original art (not lithographs or prints)
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) a gym membership
( ) large exercise equipment at home
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) a pool table
( ) a tennis court
(12) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea
( ) your own pair of skis
(13) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
(14) wealthy family members (wealthier than me)
( ) two or more family cars
( ) a walk-in closet or pantry
(15) a yard
( ) a hammock
( ) a personal trainer
( ) expensive jewelry
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
( ) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards)
( ) a stock portfolio
( ) a passport
( ) a horse
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
(16) private medical insurance
( ) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans

Do you:
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) wear perfume or cologne (not body spray)
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) have a job but don't need the money OR
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
(17) pay someone else to cook your meals (um- fast food?)
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner

Are you:
( ) an only child
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way

Have you:
( ) been on a cruise
(18) traveled out of the country
( ) met a celebrity
( ) been to the Caribbean
(19) been to Europe
( ) been to Hawaii
(20) been to New York
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
( ) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to
( ) dined with local political figures
(21) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast

Did you:
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
(22) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
(23) attend private school (under protest and with hatred in my heart)
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you

My weekend has been cheerfully chaotic with visits from friends, dancing and general merrymaking. I have met new people and made new friends. I have loved every minute of it.

The highlight of the weekend was talking to my little brother during the traditional family passing of the phone at the Toronto Easter dinner. For anyone who's had the family run down from me I'm talking about the 23 year old, Chris.

His band just finished their first CD. They've signed with iTunes and Napster for internet distribution, their in talks with four different labels for distribution rights and they got a grant from Music Canada to make the video for their first single. I'm so fucking proud of him.

He's been making music seriously for seven years. His first band won a Battle of the Bands, got a contract, had a CD ready to go, then had a major falling out with their manager of the time and imploded. This time the band's doing it all themselves.

Go Chris. At least one of us figured out what they wanted to do with their life without the ten year wander in the fog.

The band's called Burning the Day and can be found at http://burningtheday.com/

You scored as Moya (Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes. </td> Moya (Farscape) 100% Serenity (Firefly) 100% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 94% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 81% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 81% SG-1 (Stargate) 81% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 69% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 69% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 56% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 44% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 31% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

the best part? I had a tie breaking question to decide between Firefly or Farscape.

cats are creatures of prime numbers

when curled tight asleep or content no pointy ends show

when sleepy and yawning one end is pointy
(although there are many points)

when starting to play or stretching three ends are pointy

when playing hard or truly pissed five ends are pointy
(this is where blood loss usually occurs for the human)

inspired by Geordi, wrapped in towels at the vets as the (very young) veterinarian looks at me earnestly and says "he was growling..."

et tu Dreamhope?

Rohirrim


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It's been too long since I did this for real instead of memes so here are random bits from the last three weeks. In no particular order:

- got a new computer, (my first new one ever) a 80GB Mac mini
- I have blisters on both heels from the new Cons
- had last week off (I still feel three days behind where I should be)
- spent last week doing homework and sleeping (not necessarily in that order)
- cuddled with cats (lots)
- cuddled with Roaneskin (again, lots)
- saw a beautiful, full-bushy coated coyote out at around 9 pm by the house
- howled softly (wolf) and had the coyote stop and really look at me (I can't yip like a coyote)
- reminded the cats that this is why we want them in before dark
- were ignored by cats
- have been handed a major project at work "to see how I do"
- am very excited
- can't read Dreamhope's novel until I get Office for the Mac later this week
- started swimming again
- at 6:15 in the morning
- took the dog for an off-leash walk with Roaneskin on the tidal flats at Spanish Banks
- in the no dogs, on-leash or off, section (saw the sign on the way back into shore)
- breathed, laughed, loved

all in all not a bad few weeks