++ THE EIFFEL TOWER caught fire.
and i'm going to see manchester united (sans david beckham) play glasgow celtics tonight 1 2 at the seahawks stadium.
both stories of which have absolutely no relation or correlation.

and lance is winning le tour de france

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sooooo .. what's your favorite movie? .. ++

++ HEATHER GOT A NEW COMPUTER!!! a new shiny 17" powerbook g4! and holy wow its a big screen. i on the other hand .. don't have one. ++

++ THIS PAST WEEKEND was a hiking weekend at mount saint helens, which now that i think about it, we never actually hiked on the mountain. but we did hike all around the mountain and it was super cool. we visited the ape caves, which is soooo super cool! it is actually a lava tube (which for everyone who isn't a geologist) is when the lava flowed down from the mountain and then cooled on top and all the lava on the inside drained out, leaving this tunnel which is more or less all cooled lava. the hike we did was through the upper part and it was pitch black. we rented a butane lantern and the only way to get a good shot was to stand perfectly still and shoot with a 10-15 second shutter speed to capture as much light as possible. it was so much fun hiking around and crawling and climbing through this cave and yet barely any good shots to show it.

brian and jeff went with us and we all camped out, which is always fun. i think i have camped out every weekend for more or less the past 2 months. oh and the food. we usually just cook small meals over our camp stoves, but recently we have been going to the store and making some killer wicked good foil packs with onions and meat and potatos and carrots, a little seasoning and toss it on the coals in the campfire and 20 minutes later .. yum yum, thats some good dinner.

do you ever wonder if you should leave the toilet seat up or down? yeah me either. for those who do, thank brian.

weapons of mass destruction. ++

++ I WAS DRIVING around last night down in ballard along the beaches and i saw tons of cars and tons (and by tons i don't mean their total weight .. or the literal number of ton) of people walking toward the beach. i kept driving and found where they were going. they were going to the beach where the campfires were to 'hang out'. apparantly seattle has some ancient law where everyone is allowed to burn campfires on the beaches. .. .. which is cool (because fire is always cool, right?) but not very eco-freindly (or safe? but then again it is fire on top of sand .. right next to a huge body of water ..) i thought it was cool. it was a lot cooler last night when i saw it. and it sounds pretty lame now that i am writing about it. oh well. volleyball tonight. ++

++ AN OLD HIGH SCHOOL friend of mine got engaged on the 4th .. well maybe it was the 3rd. i'm not sure exactly. it was right around midnight 'their time' (ohio time .. eastern time zone) so i'm not sure if it counts as the 3rd or the 4th. anyway .. oh right its jon kippins and kiera .. i'm not sure what kiera's last name is .. so i was driving .. on my way to smith .. in bend if you haven't cought that already .. and it was late and dark out and ring ring .. well acutally buzz buzz and vibrate vibrate (because i was trying not to wake the passengers who were sleeping while i was driving! bastards.) and i picked up the phone and said hello. jon goes, "hello? jay?" i knew it. (well actually he told me he was going to do it about a few weeks before and he sounded pretty sure of it, so i knew it a while ago.) but still still i knew it. but i was still excited and wowed when he said he was engaged! holy crap! am i getting old? my friends are getting engaged! (well actually i've had a friend who has been engaged before, but still .. ) and not even friends of friends . no we're talking one degree of separation here. wow! holy wow!

CONGRATULATIONS JON KIPPINS! email him and congratulate him if you know him! ++