I was aroused... then furious

Sunshine oozes

In San Diego for the nasty feasting and the dog petting. Tonight we
hit In and out burger - if you've never been, you need to add it to
your "before I die" list. It's a big hot gut punch that you never knew
you wanted so badly. So dirty fat delish.

whatcha mcchicken go boom

there was a collective, slightly french, nerdy sigh of relief last week when the Large Hadron Collider when back online after 14 months of repairs. the LHC is the largest and most expensive machine ever built, 27 km around, and is poised to make some of the greatest discoveries of our time. if it works. it will shoot packets of atoms at each other at (close to) the speed of light and then watch the atoms go boom. measuring and analyzing this boom millions of times may reveal the Higgs boson particle, which is believed to (yawn) explain the presence of mass in atoms. i get that most people probably don't wonder about the fact that scientists don't understand why some particles have mass (like your ass) and some don't (like a photon of light), but i do.

in some far more real news, my routine of sunday laundry was lightened by the fact that i was doing laundry for my trip to california! going to sandy eggo to share thanksgiving with my sweeties.

see how it sparkles down there

a couple weeks ago, a visit from mika whirled me down south to Lark Toys. SO refreshing to spend time with peeps like meekz and the geebs. we had fabulous times under the sugar loaf.

probably my favorites were watching labyrinth as we all fell asleep then waking up to hours of putting together an enormous 12 million piece puzzle. i might be exaggerating the number of pieces.

"wow, these glasses are really scratched up. did you party in them?"

forget about the baby, baby... go back to your room, baby...

later, as you can see above we partied hard for halloween. that mullet is party up front AND 'round back! darn, she's pretty.

after a long period that felt like we were just skipping fall and diving right into winter here, last sunday we suddenly had gorgeous fall weather. we wandered along minnehaha creek and gawked at the willows. then i brought mika to the airport so she could return to cookies.

we are being spoiled with another warm weekend in minnesota. but the beauty stings your eyes the slightest bit because the photons know it's going to get ugly here really soon.