Sunday

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I didn’t mention, in my earlier post, that I spent the better part of the post-bike ride day in the very pleasant company of three lovely ladies: , and our friend Lisa, who’s back in the States on a short holiday. I felt just like Bernie Mac’s Bosley in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Without all of the explosions. We went to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. The food was quite good, as always. After dinner, we came back to the house and hung out for a few hours, until breakfast. Breakfast was… not too bad. The people watching was better-than-average. And that was despite the lack of The Singles, too! There was a large group that came in around 12:30. I don’t know really what to say about them other than the fact that I don’t think that I have ever, before last night, seen a group where the men were ALL better-looking than the women. All of them. To a man. *shiver*

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Last night, I said that I was “beyond tired.” I didn’t realize just how tired that was. I figured it out when I woke up and looked at the clock this morning. It was ten minutes before noon when I finally dragged myself away from The Dreaming and back into The Waking World.

I puttered about the house for a couple of hours before I realized that here isn’t where I wanted to be. A conversation with and a shower later, I was ready to be out in the sun. And to get something to eat.

We stopped at Jitterbug Coffee Hop for lunch. The shop was empty; Bruce said that it had been slow all day. People started showing up after we got there. Go figure. Bruce even cracked a joke about it: “What did I say about it being slow today?” After tasty sandwiches and drinks, we were off to…

The Utah Arts Festival was being held at Library Square this weekend. There were many cool exhibitions. More than once, I wished that I had lots of money to spend on some of the items that I saw. Fortunately, most of the artisans had cards/flyers… with their website addresses on them. I may have to shop at a later date. One of the very cool events was the presentation by Project Bandaloop

Project Bandaloop honors nature, community, and the human spirit through dance. The company, under the artistic direction of Amelia Rudolph, creates a blend of dance, sport, ritual, and environmental awareness. Inspired by the possibilities of climbing and rappelling, the choreography draws on aerial, vertical and horizontal movement to craft dances, many site-specific. The work explores the relationship between movement and gravity and stimulates viewers’ awareness of their natural and built environments. Project Bandaloop hopes to enrich the quality of life with their performances, out-reach and ability to bring dance to new audiences. Since 1996, the company has enjoyed performing for close to half a million people.
      – from the Project Bandaloop website

They did an… aerial ballet (best way to describe it) on the side of the City Library. Literally. On. The. Side. It was quite a sight. I took a few pictures, hopefully, I’ll get them posted in the not-too-distant future. After their performance was over, we watched The Great Basin Street Band play Dixieland Jazz, which is one of my favorite styles of music. We saw ‘s mother and stepfather – for the first time in a long time – while listening to the band. The band played a forty-five minute set; they closed with a rousing version (and let’s face it: Is there any other version) of When the Saints Go Marchin’ In. When their time was done, we left the Festival.

We stopped at and ‘ place, since it was (indirectly) on the way home. Nox was just finishing a game of Twilight Imperium when we got there; Nyx hadn’t come in from work yet, but she got there about ten to fifteen minutes after we arrived. We had a nice visit, as usual.

And now, we’re at home… and I’m contemplating the joys of a late-night bowl of cereal.

Stray Toasters

  • I still haven’t come up with a new name for this section.
  • Beam me up, Hollywood! – “We count off the greatest beams, lasers, death rays and photon streams in movie history”
  • posted a link to this videogame quiz. I got 15 out of 18. Yeah… guess who spent as much time as I could as my mother would allow in an arcade (or playing Intellivision). Mm-hmm, that’s right. Me.
  • Nyx sent me a link to this webcomic. It’s fairly work-safe… as long as your boss isn’t reading over your shoulder. (Has to be “reading,” the pictures are work-safe.)
  • Power Tool Drag Races – I really don’t know what else to say.
  • “God help us.”

  • founditemclothing.com
  • I can’t believe that I completely forgot this car when I wrote Thursday’s Stray Toaster about “Hollywood’s most loved car.”
  • Robots Bunnies in disguise! –
  • Top 10 Mac Failures
  • “SkyNet is now online…”
    Okay… so thisisn’t really SkyNet. Nor will they start mass-producing Cyberdyne CSM-801s that look remarkably like Arnold Schwarzenegger (we hope), but it does involve George Lucas, so it’s anybody’s guess as to where and how it will end up…

  • “I’m so glad I’m on LiveJournal.” –

…and that’s all for tonight.

Namaste.