New pics

I finished uploading the photos from my last fire at Charles M Russell NWR in Montana and, fortunately, Trekshare has enabled thumbnails on their new format - so you won't have to use the slideshow function to see every picture. Woo hoo!

Nothing particularly "story-worth" has been happening lately - just hanging out with lots of drunks and spending too much money. Met up with Heather and Judi to see a friend Steve who was in town from Chicago, played with Amadeo and Jeff, fixin' up Steve's house... and definitely not getting enough sleep. This is definitely Amadeo's fault, because he's a night crawler also ("You don't understand! I am BAT-AMADEO!") so I finally have somebody to stay up all night with. So you know what I did today? Slept, for as long as I could possibly manage (which ended up being about 2 pm).

Living precariously through Heather's romantic endeavors - she is dating an air force flyboy and got to take a ride in an airplane! She's been gushy and girly lately, so I've had to make fun of her a lot, because that's what we do. ;)

 

Tiny trying to lay the smack down on Wilson. Tiny - 4 lbs. Wilson - 35 lbs. Guess who wins every time? ;)

I can't believe I'm...

...watching Legally Blonde 2 and actually find it funny. (and nauseating.) Yikes.

Here's some photos from my "Homecoming" party at Jeff and Amadeo's this past weekend. The captions are mostly there for the people who don't remember what is going on in the pictures (coughDRUNKScough)! I think the best quote of the night was after Jeff and Amadeo fell asleep on both sides of me - "Your manwich went stale!" Yep, I charm the boys to sleep. ;)

I spent the weekend covered in paint, spackle, and spray-on popcorn ceiling paint at Steve's Old House - problably the closest I'll ever get to pretending to fix up my own home. We even went to to Home Depot on Sunday to look at paint and countertop samples (rolling my eyes at myself). Actually I really love doing that kind of stuff, I probably drove Steve nuts with my "grand visions" for what to do with the kitchen, the hallway, the living room... well, pretty much EVERYTHING.

Things have been good since I got back, but I'm mad about one thing - I didn't read the METRO TIMES sooner - I missed the Cake concert tonite, and Yonder Mountain String Band yesterday! ARRRRGGGHHH!

Now all I need is a good costume for Halloween. Pretty much any reason to wear some shiny black vinyl or pleather. ;)

Tiny Monster

Dog monster!

This is what happens when Linda and I get bored.

The pleasures of owning a vehicle

Feeling Victorious
Hearing Less Than Jake

So my darling little car is fast approaching the big 100k and our 4 year anniversary together. She might be a POS but I do my best to do all the proper maintenance to keep her running.  It was time to replace the PCV valve.

Ooooh! Ahhhhh! What's that? What's that?

Well it's this little $3 part that you just pop out of a hose on your engine and pop the new one back in. It has something to do with emissions, and it is USUALLY located on the crankcase on top of your engine. Takes maybe 1 minutes to do.

Unless you drive a Focus, and you don't know much about cars. ;)

Linda and I had to search and search, popping hoses off here and there, but to no avail. She went over to her car and it was just RIGHT THERE. But my car is counterintuitive in many ways when it comes to working on it. I even googled it to see if I could figure out where it was, and came across a message board where other people were surprised to see where it was. You can see it from above, but it's easiest to get it from underneath the engine.

So this stupid valve ended up being quite a debacle, two girls gawking at the engine from every angle to only finally spend about 30 seconds actually DOING anything to it.

In the meantime, Linda started tinkering around with hoses on her car and popped this cap off of her engine that attaches to a hose... and couldn't get it back on. For over half an hour. And ended up being late for class.

Yeah, we're obviously related to each other.

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Got some more pics back! They'll be up on Trekshare.com soon, and probably as an album attached to a journal entry some time.

Haven't even been in Michigan for a week but already been having a great time. Dancing with Heather, Amadeo, Jeff, Tom, and a few other people, and then staying out until 6 am... it's good to be home. :)  Even did some climbing, Amadeo helped show me the ropes of "tossing my line" with my new flyfishing rod, and finally got to see Steve's new house! He's got his work cut out for him, and if any of ya'll haven't seen it yet, then GO VISIT HIM! Just because he's officially going to MSU now doesn't mean he's a Spartan... he's just a Wolverine in green clothing. ;)

Photos

 

Finally uploaded some photos from Browns Park, Bison Range, Swan River, Bitterroot NF, Fish Springs, Alamosa, and Yellowstone to my trekshare website. Still have a few more rolls to develop, and I will probably upload them to AOL as well - trekshare changed their format, so you can't see all the thumbnails at once - you have to watch a slide show one by one, and that sucks. In the meantime, click on the photos to see more!