I dunno. get really confused and wind up somewhere. you. I almost forgot to pay, Ha!

my new motto is I am not in a tedious downward spiral.

goal for the weekend is to do something about the mice. or, if not that, do something else. it is an open-ended goal.

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my other new motto is don’t let anyone tell you anything.

it was perhaps a no-bleed month. we weathered a period of problematic feng shui, as August saw the completion of demolition and the disposal of debris. the high point was the freshening of the 2nd br with baking soda. further advances mainly depend on getting off our arse and calling an electrician.

going forward, we expect more favorable temperatures and falling humidity. an indian summer is possible. the outlook for public tv programming is pretty good. same with sports. I need to do some grocery shopping. sleepy at times. lethargic. but we have rallied at key moments to keep the downward spiral from becoming too tedious. we went to the gym a lot. we smell a little right now. the reef has been good.

from what I very lightly skim from our news media, the tea party movement seems a bit weak and is indicative of a weak opposition… a weak right.

the beck/palin rally apparently drew around 100,000 people, or perhaps a bit less. that’s not a terrible showing. but it’s perhaps a bit weak for an organization that has the financial backing of some of the country’s leading billionaires, one of whom owns the most popular cable tv news network in the history of the world. and it’s perhaps a weak showing considering the event was built around two people who have unfettered access to the airwaves and who can get their messages out through a million different channels whenever they want. consider also, that this is supposedly, as the media paints it, the most virulent opposition to the democrats, a party that controls the white house and both branches of the legislature. isn’t that when opposition is supposed to be most fierce?

a somewhat related factoid about David Koch, who is one of the sponsors of the tea party movement:

To New Yorkers who associate the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, it’s startling to learn that the Texas branch of that foundation’s political arm, known simply as Americans for Prosperity, gave its Blogger of the Year Award to an activist who had called President Obama “cokehead in chief.” (Frank Rich, The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party)

I’m not sure how “startling” that is. ballet isn’t exactly the art form for the down and out.

it’s curious that the media is awash with headlines about obama’s political struggles. I note that Frank Rich, the author of the preceding blockquote, felt compelled, as seemingly all columnists do, to decry obama’s “unfocused political strategy”. funny how willing people are to criticize the political aptitude of the world’s most successful politician, and someone who has had more than the usual amount of success advancing his agenda during the first 2 years of his term. meanwhile, we don’t see headlines like “what’s wrong with the tea party?” or “the tea party: what went wrong?”.

someone I’ve been writing with asked me what my poetry is about. I’ve gotten that question before and usually don’t make a real attempt to answer. or I might make a very casual, off the cuff attempt that doesn’t contain anything I believe in very thoroughly. for some reason in this case I feel like trying to make a sincere attempt to determine what it’s about and devise a brief explanation. so I promised to think about it. I’ve never thought about it very much. and partly because I have barely written any in years I don’t feel like any harm could come from trying to explain it. also… the interloc sternly warned against vague answers. I’m not allowed to say it’s about “life”.

I’m averaging about 1.25 new mottos per day lately. the newest one is stop thinking and work.

First time in the new 7-11, just now. it makes me feel like a 1st class U.S. citizen when I can walk into a bright, clean 7-11 and buy a cliff bar and a 99 cent bag of doritos.

I don’t have to tell you what it means for my donut life. It means I have one.

I read today that average dc home prices have gone up 7 percent in the last year. I’m going to be rich. “woot.” it’s never too soon to begin a new wave of irrational exuberance.

I have some more now. I know… have

thought I’d try no coffee. I’m going to un-try that

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I napped a lot yesterday. today is sunday. go to the gym. then maybe nap. I’m eating breakfast. I did a social thing outside my apartment last night. this iced coffee is tasty. it’s making me a little bit sleepy, but is also making me believe in change we can believe in and stasis we can believe in. for anaxameder said, without stasis there can be no change, and without change there can be no stasis. it is as the lyre and the bow, said he to exoskeleton, for without the bow does the creek run in place, forming the outer sphere.

here is most of one of the watermelons:

I was only able to harvest maybe 2/3 of the beans before I became exhausted from harvesting so many beans. For perspective, this is a huge pot, about as big as a smart car:

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I got my scoot back today. that was sweet. took them a hell of a long time to get done with it, and I was pretty pissed about it at times, but it looks perfect. the paint match is perfect.

the baking soda worked.  it’s definitely not a placebo effect.   I’m amazed.   no stink at all.  barely even a smell.  definitely less than half of a library smell.