Next week in the promised land

Happy, belated, passover.

I know that if things look bleak, if I suffer from persecution, if I'm forced to leave this land, being chased by angry bigots with bats and empty beer bottles...

There's always next week in the promised land.

Send help soon

Maggie and David left today. (or more accurately, they left 18 days ago)

They mailed pretty much everything they owned but still managed to find enough stuff laying around to fill up their car.

I ended up with assorted odds and ends, some soup and a giant container of trail mix.

One advantage to posting a month after something has happened is that I can tell you that they made it back to Atlanta un-scathed.

The Kozy Apartments will be a sad and lonely place without them

I heard noises coming from upstairs, maybe they had ghosts. Or maybe they let all the stray cats move into their apartment.

Who will park in their spot next to my fine automobile. By the way; if you know anyone in the Pacific northwest who needs a car...

Since they left; the stray cat count seems to have dropped significantly.

I just noticed that my next door nieghbors have been useing our dog run/side yard as an ashtray. Do chickens eat cigarette buts?

Maggie and David gave me this plant before they left.

They were a little reticent to give it to me based on my previous botanical track record.

This one I killed over the course of a couple months. However, it's posible that it's just resting up for the spring.

This is the Douglas Fir I killed. This one I'm pretty sure is NOT resting. Although, I thought Douglas Firs were un-killable....

Somehow, I ended up with the gold Bacchus statue.

The night is so dark on Klamath street tonight.

When you forget; you let THEM win

Just in case you forgot what I looked like.

I'm not sure if this is a poster for a fundamentalist religious group, or, possibly some sort of militia.

Meet my boyfriend, take my groceries

Evelyn had a going away party at her house.

The following day; Evelyn and her man friend were driving back to Michigan.

Regina had come down from Alaska to attend the send off.

I made Evelyn a going away CD that included only INOFFENSIVE music.

I hope it wasn't so inoffensive that it managed to offend her.

Ben was in charge of barbequeing sausages. He refused to poke holes in the sausages.

And thus, they exploded when we tried to eat them.

Evelyn gave us her old groceries.

I ended up with several varieties of rice.

This is Evelyn's man friend. I think his name is Mitch or Carl or something.

I think Matt ended up without any groceries. Or maybe he was just sad to loose his office mate.

Evelyn's man friend mentioned, how in preparation for Evelyns return to Michigan, he had purchased many different varieties of flour.

I really don't know what one would do with so much flour.

This is Ben doing his impression of Carmen Miranda.

Get lost

Sleeping on the job

I spotted a co-worker hiding in the bushes.

We went to the Gay 90's for a going away luncheon for Evelyn. I somehow managed to offend Evelyn, thus, ruining lunch for everyone.

The police had stopped by to visit our neighbors. Living in Roseburg, I've had to call the police more times then I ever did in Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.

For the going away potluck, in the park, I brought bug spray. It's 70% DEET free.

After the going away part; Lindsey and Lee Ann had a G&T after party at their house.

When Lupita arrived I asked where her Boys & Girls Club boyfriend was.

Lupita did not think this was funny and proceeded to spend the night hitting me.

As a compromise; I pretended to be very drunk, thus absolving me of any need to act properly.

It all worked out. She and her teenage boyfriend rode off into the sunset.

And lived happily ever after.

Fun in the sun

I thought this was my elbow, but, actually it's not. I hit my hand on this metal thing in the closet, it hurt a lot.

This is a site specific sculpture involving many plastic spoons.

I went to K-mart to exchange the original "awsomecam", they were selling the replacement camera (the one I got at Wallgreens for $10) with a Phillips logo on it it for $20!

I went to go meet Kelly. On the way to the meeting spot I ran into Kelly, note it wasn't really anywhere near the meeting spot.

This is Laura's friend from Cooper, maybe his name is Dan or Steve or possibly John.

I tried to take a picture of Laura not making a face. As it turns out it didn't matter she's barely in the frame.

Since I had two cameras I tried to take some stereoscopic pictures.

Kelly in three or so dimensions.

We got coffee and brunch at the Mud cafe, I thought they just operated those coffee trucks...Apparently I was wrong.

Me and Kelly walked around for a long time. She got a Kenny-G CD for her dad.

We stopped at a coffee shop, maybe at 1st and 1st. Maybe it wasn't at that intersection, though that was where we were shooting for, as there is probably a vortex or something there.

In the basement, near the bathroom, was a trap claiming to catch such things as mice, snakes, crickets, bugs, etc. and bats.
Eric met us and we all went out for Ethiopian food. A couple came in and asked about a more traditional table outside (it was pretty cold out) because they wanted the "full experience". They ended up sitting inside.

When I got home I went up to the roof and I saw this guy get mugged down the street. I called the police and went down to see if he was ok, he had a black eye.