the global warning

One more thing about
An Inconvenient Truth:

Al Gore speaks about
global warming with
enormous passion.

That passion is
inspiring in itself.
No matter what field
you are in.

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

This is a really really good movie.
Everybody should see it.

It's a documentary that
stars a politician
and lots of statistics,
but the theater was so full
we had to sit in the second row.

Average number of gasps
from the average person:
about ten.
You just learn a lot.

When it was over people applauded.

Here is the website:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

someone we know is getting married

non, je ne regrette rien

I joined a mailing list at
the Karmann Ghia club.
This is how we sign ourselves
when we post on the list
(to protect everyone's
anonymity I am using myself
as an example):

Lotta,
Los Gatos, CA
72 vert

Took me a minute
to figure it out.

Vert stands for convertible.

I thought it meant
their car was green.

And thats pretty much
all that remains
of my French.

Edit is great, though.

tuesday night

What does that
sign say now?

summer (2)

It was pointed out to me
that when you eat ice cream,
the size of the spoon
really doesn't matter.

summer (1)

The papery bougainvillea,
everybody's favorite
flower.

yep

before
after

elbow grease

I am just saying.

they are not going in the soup

So the sliding door to the closet is broken.
Almost crushed my finger.
It hurt a lot.
Wrapped a bag of frozen peas around it.
That helped. I can type with it now.

The peas were left over from when my
sweetheart had the blackest eye ever
in November, and then again in December
after he had surgery.

Those are good peas there.

no genetically manipulated anythings

I am watching Alice Waters on TV.
She is the founder of the Chez Panisse
restaurant in Berkeley, and the
mother of the California Cuisine
and the Edible School Yard project.
She preaches:
Grow your own vegetable.
Eat everything fresh.
Never eat anything out of season.
Shop at local farmers' markets.
I try.

meet the ham and cheese sandwich

Someone close to me
got hungry for real food.
Bread, mayonnaise,
tomato, cheese, "turkey ham".

Dr Pepper.

(Hold the Dr Pepper please.)

rabarberkräm

Rhubarb cut in half inch pieces,
sugar, splash of water,
simmer, corn starch.
Eat with cold milk.
Super good, and
super cheap, if you
don't have to buy the rhubarb
at the snobby store.

it's that time of year

I was looking at my desk today.
I sighed and turned around.
My office mate also gardens.

yes that can be an expensive hobby

When my car was young
it looked like this.
It doesn't anymore.
The engine especially
doesn't look like this.
Not even $778 later it does.

That hurt.

just think of oysters

That's saltwater there.
My mom has been
telling me for years that
flushing your sinuses with
saltwater helps
when you have a cold,
or allergies.
I've tried it
a couple of times before
but never kept it up.
But now I have,
for a week.
And it works.

You can buy a kit
at a drugstore for $9.99,
complete with little
packets of water.
Or you can make your own.
Put water in a saucepan,
add salt until it tastes
like the ocean, and let it boil.
Cool it off, and suck it up
one nostril.
Then the other.
You could use
the gadget that
comes with a kit,
but I just dunk
my nose in there.
Voila! nose fully
operational
again.

scar on the face of paris

Went to see The DaVinci Code.

Paris was lovely.
Audrey Tautou was lovely.
Both British and French police officers
were scruffy, and lovely.

And then there was Tom Hanks.
I'll be honest, I can't remember
when I liked him last.

And again they made it seem
as if the American
was the only one
without an accent.

dr pepper

Coke, toothpaste,
and almond extract.
No?

that would be a career change

I heard an assemblywoman speak briefly today.
This particular one works for worthwhile causes.
I was inspired.
Maybe now finally I will go into politics.
In a country where I am not allowed to vote?

syttende mai 1999

May 17, 1999, I received notice that
I had won the right to apply for a
Green Card through the
Diversity Visa Lottery.
Big day for me.

The lottery was my only way
of obtaining a green card.
The current immigration bill would
terminate the program.

Someone asked what was the
first thing I did when I had learned
I had won.

I bought perennials, and planted
them.