Summertime 2006

It isn't very often that we all get to see each other all at once, so...

... i'm in the planning stages of a Summertime 2006 party over at the house. If everyone could do me the favor of posting any plans they might have in June so that i might choose a date with minimal conflicts, i would appreciate it. Plus, if anyone wants to get in on the planning (for food, decorations, activities, etc...) just drop me a line.

If you're reading this, you're prolly invited.

This one is for all you Beatle fans

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For you

Listening to this makes me happy.

Howdy blog people.

It has been a while since I participated in the community.
I have been reading but not posting.

It is good to see what is going on in all of your worlds. I forget, since I am aware of what is going on in mine, that the information doesn't just zap to ya'lls brains without the need of cumbersome communication.

Still out here in Oregon, still sitting in a cube in the "WORLD HEADQUARTERS" of nike, still hating the rain, still loving the summers up here.

Laura and I are currently seperated.
No one can prepare you for the demands of life. sometimes you just get thrashed. Sometimes it's our own fault. sometimes you don't know if things can heal. sometimes you can just hope and work to make yourself more into the person you are supposed to be.

I want to write about wonderful trips or interesting gadgets or something light and easy to swallow. I seem to get pretty heavy. oh well. sometimes that's how it is.
most of my time and energy right now is put twards delving the depths of my emotional swimming pool. seeing therapists and the sort. writing and reading alot about how and where emotions and there repercussions come from and how to learn to recognize what is going on. I have always been quite good at not dealing with difficult issues so it is refresing to start to handle my shit.

it feels like growing up. starting to actually see my place in the larger world, how and who i am. and that what i do has an effect on my surroundings.

blah blah blah.

Spend my days working on clothes. mostly graphics for clothes for the various soccer teams that nike has contracts with.
you can look on the niketown website under the soccer section and the in the club gear and national team gear sections.
all the t-shirts are mine and some of the other stuff.
chella and i went to see the mexican national women's team play the university of portland. while we were at the game i saw three different people wearing things i had designed. that's always cool.
i just started doing baseball.....which to me is a bit of a bore.

the girls are growing up. for all of you who know her, Hannah is a teenager. and never have i met a more creative person. truly an individual. as i have said to some others before, there is no distance between her idea of something and her doing it.
in any medium, she has a wonderful outlook as all things around her have the possibility of being bent and twisted and woven and carved and glued into so many wonderful expressions. she is playing the guitar writing her own songs and going to school.

chella is still a dream lightly attached to the world by the tips of her toes. sometimes when the sun glitters off her golden hair it does seem that she floats as her constant chatter of imaginary games flows in and around the sounds of birds flying and the wind blowing. she writes and illustrates pile after pile of books with name like, "All Birds Wide and South" "A Girl of the Country" and "What She Did There." she is taking a gymnastics class and is kind of uncorrdinated.
I have never know love this pure. it is easy to believe in the devine in the presence of your children. that is of course right before you yell at them and tell the to go to their room.

Laura is applying to graduate school and creating an impressive body of prints. she has been enrolled in 2 printmaking classes at the local art school. she always has been an enormous fountain of creative energy. to give perspective, most people in her class finish 2 to 4 well workes plates by the end of the class. both times she has finished about 13. while homeschooling chella. she can cook like a badass and usually make most of the food we eat from scratch. she has an impressive garden in the background and a basement full of homemade jellies and preserves. i am always still impressed by her.

i have been painting some watercolours. it is nice to have part of the creative process conciously out of your controll. the way that the pigment lays down so slow and quiet, gently blending into wonderous patterns. i did a bunch of smaller kind of squiggle paintings last night. has the look of fake chinese calligraphy. just the motions that my hand makes from handwriting, just mixed up. painting some rocks and sticks.

played soccer today at lunch.

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bees!

bees!
Originally uploaded by featherbed.

fantastic drawer illustrator image maker

Long Time, No Post

what a nice weekend i had! i got to spend a bunch of time with the lovely young lady pictured here. We attended the iFest downtown, where we caught performances by Grupo Fantasma and Yerba Buena.

to those looking for a customized, user-updatable website(amber, antony and taggart) i have been working on a package for some time and recently had a major breakthrough. i have been looking for a combination of some lightweight blogging/cms software and an equally lightweight photo gallery and i think WordPress and ZenPhoto each hit the sweetspot. i recently discovered that i can install the ZP tables into the WP database, which means i can use elements from either package on any page. i still have a bit of a to-do list, but having cleared that major hurdle. My site (still pending) will be the guinea pig, but once that is working i will start accepting requests for sites from my homies.

the to do list includes:

1. creating a wordpress theme that will work the way i want.
2. creating a zenphoto theme that will work the way i want.
3. tweaking a wordpress/zenphoto plug in to do something different that it is doing now so i can offer two options for including images in posts.

what do you, the user, need to do to get your hands on this high tech radness? first off, you will need to be patient for just a little longer ‘til i get everything done and working. next you will need to get a real hosting plan. i have been very happy with Verve Hosting, but Fat Cow’s Fat Cow plan looks pretty good also. You will also need to update your domain name servers which is pretty easy. The only other thing i can think of is possibly updating you email settings, but that will vary depending on the host you select. Doing all of those things will generate a few new usernames/passwords which i will need access to. then i’ll install the software, give you a tutorial on how to use it, and viola! you’re off to the races.

watch this space for more details.

PS: pablo, i am digging this textile stuff

My New USB Stick

Not sure what happened. I think an electro-varmit chewed off the back panel in order to get to the tasty micro-innards. The doodad still works as a usb drive, but I can’t turn it on to play the music.

I liked the shuffle. Too bad it only lasted 1.3 years.

Also, I finished John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War (thanks Taggart and Adolph for the hookup). It was a fun read! Taggart warned me not to read it too fast, but it is such page turner that I could not help myself…

So I enjoyed the book, but I am not very interested in reading the followup, The Ghost Brigades. I guess I just don’t find the universe Scalzi presents interesting enough to draw me into another novel…