A Full Service Bank

So, I am sitting in my car at Washington Mutual, at 7pm. I am looking for my account number so I can endorse a check and deposit it.

While I am searching through my car (the logical place for storing all financial information), an attractive eighteen year-old girl, in her pajamas, uses the ATM. (Not a nightie, but a realistic version of pajamas, pajama pants, tank top, sweatshirt that zips up in front and flip-flops.)

She walks back to her car.

Emerging from another car, is another, perhaps twenty, slender woman, her hair also twirled up in a disheveled manor, also wearing pajamas, pink spaghetti-string tank top, pajama bottoms, Tevas.

While she is at the ATM, another shows up and uses the second ATM. Nice tan, she had a gap between her tank top and yoga pants showing a flat stomach and a back tattoo, no shoes.

And another.

And another.

I am sitting at the Washington Mutual feeling very old (at 28) and very over dressed (in shorts and a t-shirt) for a 20 year-old’s pajama party that looked like a who’s who of hot sorority girls. Not a single woman seemed to know another.

I would have loved to see a guy watching this parade.

It was surreal.

Now to break the charm, I am guessing a yoga class just got out nearby.

Cool Things Like Wiskers On Kittens

Cool: Running into my sister at a club.

Cool: Watching my friend Lopaka dance. He is really quite good. More importantly he has such a good time you can’t help but smile.

Cool: Super low tides where you can find critters and sea things hiding in the tide pools.

Cool: The butterflies flocking to their winter home in the grove down the street.





Cool: This tree amongst the California green.



The end.

Did you look in the fridge for your cell?

One of the problems with cordless items, is you can never find them.

One of the problems with living alone, is you have no one to blame when you can’t find something.

One of the problems with not having (what is now referred to as) a ‘land` line, is it makes it very hard to call yourself to find your cell.

And lastly, one of the problem with fridges being well insulated...

(Sean says: At least it will be nice and cold.)

(Also from Sean, this link regarding both original costumes and politics: http://photo.demonhood.com/halloween04/62_G)

Giving In: Politics

I have been trying to keep politics out of this forum because it is divisive and not really appropriate.

I am giving up.

Bush won the necessary electoral votes. He was elected by the republic. Bush won the popular vote. If the US was a democracy, he still would have won. The people elected him. “The people are morons…” says my Mom.

Anyone who has ever worked in a technical support job would overwhelmingly concur with this statement, politics aside.

So I saw something fascinating today, which is the real reason I write, a bumper sticker that said: “Secede Now.”

I live in California. The memo I got said we were waiting for “The Big One” before we secede. (The Big One is a statistically likely huge earthquake that in some dramatizations results in the physical separation of California from North America, at which point my memo says we will politically secede.) I guess we are moving up the timeline.

I have heard it said that the country is more divided now than during the civil war. (More divided is one of those phrases that has absolutely no meaning. I am going to assume more divided means more equally divided, in contrast to more factions or a more heavily weighted faction amongst the factions, or perhaps more practice in dividing, maybe by repeating forth grade a few times.)

Since America is divided, that makes this the best time to conquer it. I will get right on that.

My favorite comment: It is a good thing Bush won, after all you don’t want to piss off gun-wielding constituency.

Imagine the consequences if gun ownership were a factor. Everyone would have guns. Then it would take only one politically motivated gun exchange in say a Dallas bar to make civil war would be a real possibility.

The irony of it is, it is politics and government. The majority of us think it is fairly useless and ineffective anyway.

I hope that Kerry supports are much more satisfied with Bush’s second four years than with his first.

Stupid: People waiting nine hours to vote.
Stupid: A divided country three years after an event that should have unwaveringly unified us.

Cool: Entertaining bumper stickers and comic comments. (It is not nearly as significant as what is stupid, but you take the cool where you can get it sometimes. And hope for more.)

Cool: Political Halloween Costumes http://photo.demonhood.com/halloween04/62_G

Original Costumes

Most original costumes I saw this weekend:

* Boxed Wine

* Two people dressed as grim rippers each carrying matching president or presidential candidate signs on a pole. Beneath the signs were little signs saying, “Support Evil.” http://photo.demonhood.com/halloween04/62_G

(Points were given out for originality and are not necessarily reflective of my political opinion; the relevant opinion is that I found it funny.)