Don't be a jerk

Have I mentioned how angry I was/am about the length of Winter,lack of Spring. the early ending of Summer?

Luckily this will post before Fall actually starts so I feel that it is alright to complain that it's not supposed to be Fall yet!

Somehow, I ended up with all of these buy one admit one free tickets to the circus, the attached note asked me to put them in a prominent location. That location happens to be my desk.

They did send me an actual free ticket to the circus. Really I was just glad to help.

I am thinning out my promotional pen collection.

Fascinating, I know.

Burning bridges and taking names

I decided that I needed a day off from Roseburg.

Stephen and I drove down to Grants Pass for a change of scenery.

Here is some slightly different scenery.

It's Spring here.

Just not in Roseburg.

I found a dollar, I think it may be a sign that things are looking up.

Apparently in Grants Pass; it's all about the climate.

Apparently in Grants Pass; it's NOT all about saving paper.

Odly, only half the people in this mural actually have faces.

When I ordered; our waitress asked me if I liked peanut butter...apparently I misjudged just how much peanut butter I would need to like.

Steve and I went to get coffee, we were paying and I handed Steve the $2 in cash that I had, so he says to the barista "here is $2 and can you put the rest on my card" to which she replies "Sure. Or I could just not charge you for your coffee." So she took my $2 plus whatever change I had in my pocket, and gave Steve a free coffee! Did I mention that I am mad as hell? And my coffee was awful, by the way, and not just because Steve's was free.

(pause)

These are finger potatoes.

Emily brought pumpkin bread. Part of this may have had something to do with the fact that I had told both Megan and Emily that I would disown them as friends if they made pumpkin bread and didn't offer me any.

Here are two dinosaurs, two owls and a rubber celery. Obviously.

I attempted to steal Emily's soul. I was thwarted once again.

I like discovering things with my name on them. Granted, this is my barbecue and I probably put the sticker there.

We had a barbecue involving communal eating. Here Mike is eating balsamic corn.

Emily and Mike experimented with putting guacamole on everything. The corn was ok with guacamole, the fish...less so.

What barbecue would be complete without burning stuff? More accurately; what barbecue would be complete without the burning of my Douglas Fir?

We initially tried to barbecue the tree. This yielded little result.

Here is Mike pouring lighter fluid on my tree.

Here is my tree dieing a fiery death.

Craft days

Today is craft day.

I am filling dinosaur heads with plaster.

Obviously.

The idea being; that if the head is filled with something, it'll be easier to attach or screw it onto a belt buckle.

I know, you really care.

It's Spring again.

Whatever...

Look! Jarritos now makes chapstick. And yes, I think you know that I got it. And yes, it is delicious. I love Mandarina.

They now sell Make magazine at Safeway.

Right next to American Cowboy...

We could talk about the weather

Look it is spring! Or maybe it's summer, I mean it is 90 degrees out.

Here is a duck and a makeshift duck pond constructed out of an old kiddie pool.

Elephants in the room

This morning at breakfast I renounced Roseburg. The previous evening some angry man threatened to tear our heads off and shit down our neck holes. This morning there was snow on the ground, I mean WTF it's supposed to be spring. I fear that I live in a town where I will not find love and when I do leave, someday, I will be too old to find it.

Why does Roseburg hate me so?

I went out to the college to work on my lesson plan. There was snow on the ground and a class in the room I needed.

I called Megan to tell her that God hated me and that I needed something to do. She asked what I wanted to do. I said cry.

We left the dark clouds of Roseburg and headed to the coast.

I told her every gruesome detail.

It was a cathartic afternoon.

The sad seems mostly gone now.

For dinner at the Captains' Catch we got sides of coleslaw. They brought them to us as an appetizer.

We had "fish" and chowder. I thought about asking what kind of "fish", but then I forgot.

When our waitress came to clear our table; she told me that I needed to eat a few more "fish" before I could leave.