++ JOKE(S) OF THE DAY

what do cobras study in college?
.. .. .. hiss-tory.

what do you give a snake with allergies?
.. .. .. anti-hiss=tamines.

saw fog here in seattle for the first time this morning. yay. exciting. uh huh. whatever jay.
and the blue angels are in town this weekend, overhead right now practicing for their show this weekend. so every few minutes you hear an f/a-18 scream by overhead and since we don't have air conditioning (as is the same with most every building in seattle) we keep the windows open all day in an attempt to induce air flow and cross ventililation throughout the office (which never happens) and its really loud. but it reminds me of home (well more so wright patterson afb) but that may as well be home with fighter jets and airplanes flying low overhead all the time (especially when there is a hurricane coming and they have to move al lthe planes). i think its lunch on the roof today to see them practice. ++

++ VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME at the place. you have only to put up with pre-school toys everywhere and posters on the wall depicting what a vegetable is, etc.. craig came into town yesterday. man i haven't seen that boy in a long time! i mean i've passed him or ran into him maybe 3 or 4 times in the past 4 years, but i really haven't seen him since 1st year in college when he was a roommate. and that was quite a while ago. (relatively speaking. .. relative to what? ..) so craig emailed me yesterday afternoon from the seattle public library saying he had arrive in seattle and was looking to get together or if possible stay with us for the evening. (of course you can stay with us for the evening. you could stay with us for two or three evenings if you'd like!)

so craig is in school with me, just on the opposite section, so he has option quarter right now and he's using it for travel. (where?) across the entire united states in one (well actually two) long road trip(s) to see not only the parts of the u.s. he hasn't seen (which he says was more or less the entire western half) and to see a baseball game in every baseball stadium. i think there is 30 or 32 and he has about 13 left to go, which is pretty cool if you ask me (but then again who would .. and if you did, who would care?) he says he wrote every team and told them who he was and what he's doing and if he could have a free ticket. 9 teams replied and gave him free tickets. how awesome is that! (wait that was a question which i ended with an exclamation point. oh right, who cares.) he's seeing the M's play a day game thursday and then he's off to sf, oakland, la, anaheim, san diego, arizona, arlington, houston, florida, atlanta, and i think i may have missed one. (he still has to make up pittsburgh, which was rained out).

i wanna go on a road trip. .. .. oh wait, i am going on a road trip! woohoo! i forgot all about that! in about a month and a week .. portland, sf, san diego, joshua tree, phoenix, arcosanti, antelope canyon, mesa verde, great sand dunes, collegiate peaks, garden of the gods, colorado springs, denver, and finally home! ++

++ MUSEUM OF GLASS doesn't really have all that much glass in it. true it does have a glass making studio (which btw is pretty cool) but as far as glass on display, not so much. and isn't dale chihuly from tacoma? and he doesn't even have one piece of glass actually in the museum? are you serious? (ok maybe there were some, but if there was i didn't see it.) ++

++ MARINERS 6 ATHLETICS 0 . that was the score last night at the baseball game i attended .. for free, thanks to 'mr. patcraft' carpets product rep guy who gave away four free tickets which were raffled off within the office and i won. jeff, brian, and heather accompanied me to row 19 of section 114 at safeco field. i think yesterday was the most i have ever not paid attention to a baseball game. it wasn't that it was a bad game. quite the contrary. m's pitched a 2 hit shutout and ichiro saved a homerun with an outstanding catch in right field. they looked great. good company i guess makes the game seem not as interesting and more fun to just goof around with and share inside jokes while being loud and obnoxoius.

name theory .. (whoever thought this could actually be a real theory with people actually philosiphizing the significance of the meaning of words and names.) .. ..

do you notice different people with the same first name having similar traits. sometimes its a personality trait. sometimes its a physical trait. sometimes its the way they act around people or some mannerism. but i always find people with the same first name who somehow are grouped by some similar trait. maybe its just because i'm looking for some way to relate them together? i dunno.

why is it humans always feel the need to classify or quantify things? seriously. does everything need to be classified? can't things just be what they are without something attached to it? we can't be just individuals anymore. we have to be an individual of a group. we can't just be a individual. ++

++ IT WAS CHRISTMAS last night .. uh .. right. no, actually it was just a bunch of glasgow and man.u. fans. a whole whopping 66,722 of them! they say its the largest crowd to attend a sporting event ever in the pacific northwest beating theprevious record set by the women's world cup the last time it was in town. manchester united beat the glasgow celtics 4-0 with ruud van nistelrooy being named man of the match. the game was awesome. the pitch looked great. the play much different from american soccer. the fans not rowdy, only fanatical about the game. the weather perfect and the sunset incredible. what great night for a european soccer match.

overheard at work ..
"i thank you for your work and will see to it that you get credit toward helping humanity."
.. and i thought i worked in an architectural office .. little do i know. ++