I like richard brautigan better than louis zukofsky. I like louis zukofsky better than dr. phil. I like dr. phil better than sarah palin. pause. pause. I think that’s it.

I just got a little feeling, after I hit return twice. it was a feeling like “it’s ok”. that’s the second time I’ve gotten that feeling today. both times it lasted less than a second. the memories will last a lifetime.

I spotted this headline today: Fatal crash may be linked to dead woman.

I’m sorry it’s thursday. I did work. I guess I’m going to meet a stranger. tomorrow. I haven’t been drinking beer much lately, except for monday at the bar. lately I find it somewhat disorienting to drink even one beer alone. I get a sugar high. it’s too cosmic. sounds of weed wacker. I made a pretty good deposit. I’m eating a large sandwich then I will be sleepy. I paid the water bill.

my advice to you. it”s thursday. my knees are tip top. we live in kites.

roof: probably ok. probably no leaks. I think it would smell funny if I stuck my head up the hatch and there was mold or rot in there. it smells as neutral as anything could smell. eerily odorless, like a dry, odorless void.

2nd bedroom: it still has the smell it’s had ever since I moved in, even tho I removed what I thought might be the offending wood a week or two ago. it’s less pronounced than it was when I first moved in, but the same kind of smell. the smell seems to have no specific origin. I have literally crawled around sniffing, to try to find a part of the room that smells worse… to try to find something particularly smelly. likewise I have smelled up high, in all corners, with the ladder. but the smell is perfectly uniform throughout the space. it is not a terrible smell, but, one still wonders. it could even be a dog smell. it smells a little like dogfood or maybe an old person slept and/or died in there at some point. it’s a little like an old library smell, but slightly less pleasant. like a dog food library. last night I took two boxes of baking soda and scattered it all around the floor. I will vacuum that up in a day or two.

ceilings: probably no reason to tear them apart. in fact I’m not even sure if the discoloration in the fiberglass batts is former mold. it really might just be dirtiness. like I said, I stick my head up that hatch and it smells dry as a dry bone up there.

25% of the brain is for visual perception. this is why I tidy up sometimes, and why I clean the toilets. we are what we see.

also, the brain is very plastic, so habits are easy to begin and easy to end. you could do something every day for years and it might seem immutable. it might seem like, you. then, after a couple days of not doing it, you don’t understand why you ever did, or why you did it that way. things are real mostly by momentum.

I’m going to turn 36 before long, and when I do, I’m going to arnold to celebrate my 34th birthday with my family. we decided to celebrate my 34th birthday b/c we’re pretty sure we didn’t celebrate it two years ago.

I forgot I posted that. god, I haven’t read my blog all day.
arnold and me are in bed.
chirp.

the standard for monday in august is to eventually get a little bit done.

still waiting for the scoot, 3 wks later. I call them from time to time.

I don’t have a taste for things right now. even tho I’m having conversations with women on the internet. starting three days ago. friday. friday, a community organizer knocked on my door, in the evening. she was canvassing the neighborhood to find out what people’s issues were. we chatted a little then she asked to come in. we sat and chatted some more. I think she was taken aback by how much I had to say about property taxes. anyhau, it reminded me that I like to sit and talk with an interesting lass, sometimes. so in the later evening times, I sent some messages and some conversations began on the internet. that’s my story of the weekend. my legs aren’t very sore. emotionally I’m a little flat and strange. I should probably walk around and listen to emotional pop music. it’s been ok getting re-acquainted with my bike, tho. my summer utilities are not bad. need to get a third roofer out here to look and opine. not very much about me has changed since I was born. occasional bouts of unambitiousness. plus the occasional flipside. I should probably tidy up. that almost always works inflect syntax ibid.

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I am pleased to read recently that only 18 percent of Americans believe the president is a Muslim. A very small number, really.

For those who think the U.S. is behind the statistics show – and judging by the media converage almost all media – must be considered that some Americans still do not know. There are many examples, but let me give you one of the survey data in 2007 and Asia. According to the survey, 31 percent of Americans could name the U.S. president. This wine is especially considering the U.S. is perhaps the most powerful in the history of the Vice-President, whose name has often been in the news long before the vice president and vice president during the interview, for seven years. The assumption that there are significant changes in the ranks of the VP-2007 knows, Americans are less likely to lose faith that the president of Americans can not name the commander.

It may be tempting to think that 18 percent of all who hate Obama are right. I guess that only half of them. But in fact most of them are apolitical people, nothing against Obama, and the thoughts of him as a Muslim is not offended. These are people who are already responding to the interviewer calls are not as interested in tracking the national news. In fact, the survey found that 26 percent of those who think that Muslim is also demonstrated that it was complying with his work performance and 7 percent had no opinion. In comparison, only 22 percent of the total number of U.S. and George W. At the end of the performance of President Bush.

Apparently, many Americans have the ability to work to see the president in a positive light, although it is not Christian. This despite the fact that many of these people probably are not an education in the United States.

the body is strange. I had my frisbe tournament yesterday. I felt better in the fourth game than I’ve ever felt in the fourth game of a tournament day. fresh as the morning dew. I could have played another couple games.

usually at some point in the fourth game, I hit a wall. legs no longer respond well.

today I’m not sore at all. my legs don’t even feel tight.

I’ve been going to the gym a lot in the last few weeks, but that wouldn’t normally make so much of a difference. I’ve only been doing lower body stuff 1-2 times a week.

meanwhile, I’ve had a little trouble going up and down stairs for the past week. something is a little sprained in my knee. apparently it is sprained in a very specific way that only affects stair climbing and not running. the knee is no better or worse on the stairs today than it was before the tournament yesterday.

sometimes when I come home via the back yard… like when I arrive via car… the kittens are there, playing. when I approach, they sometimes hide, but sometimes just freeze and look up at me. they seem like figments of my imagination. but they really are there. I took a picture of them and posted the picture on my blog, so they must be real.

easy to tell apart

I earlier discussed the d.

now we/I must prognosticate the skinskins offense.

but first an update on the d.  I had said the team might be missing a true free safety, and doughty would probably get the start in that position.  in fact kareem moore is the favorite, and is considered a prototypical free safety.  moore was a 6th round pick in 2008 who has exceeded expectations and coaches are now high on him.

the o…

the o scored 42 points against the bills in the preseason opener.  it’s only the preseason.  but it does provide some feel-good for a team that has struggled to score in recent preseasons, nevermind regular seasons.

skins are thinnest at wide receiver.  but the bills made it appear like the team has an overabundance of options at that position.  that could be just the bills, or could be preseason, or could be mcnabb, or could be improved offensive line play, or could be better receivers, or could be a better offensive system.

the o line played very well against the bills, compared with their atrocious showing in the 2009 season.  and tho it’s just preseason, the o line has been bad in recent preseasons.   it was eerie, in this year’s preseason opener, to see QBs in the bugundy and gold uniform with time to throw and open targets, a rare sight in recent years.  bills pass rush is not the best, certainly, and they did not bring a lot of blitzes, I don’t think.  still, the o line in recent years managed to suck badly under the most favorable circumstances, and this line didn’t.  against the bills, the o line was without pro-bowl right tackle jammal brown, who is still getting back to full strength after missing all of 2009 as a New Orleans Saint.   he is expected to play this saturday against the ravens.  the skins are enormously upgraded at the tackle positions and slightly upgraded in the interior line.  depth is an issue, but o line depth is also an issue for the cowboys, and they are favored to win the division.  the skins starting o line may be better than dallas’ starting o line.

the skins’ two tight ends are both monsters.  perhaps the best pass-catching tight end tandem in the league.  perhaps in years.  not always the best blockers.

success of the offense will depend mostly on health of the o line, and whether some receivers can step up.  in recent years, the team was enamored with receivers who were fast and who looked the part.  but speed doesn’t necessarily mean separation.  there are other things involved in getting open, besides straight-line speed.  this year the emphasis is on getting open and then catching the thrown ball.  the guys who make the final cut may not be the biggest or fastest, but they will be guys who can, somehow or other, separate from d-backs and then make the catch.

offensive coaching is enormously improved.  you can’t possibly upgrade any more dramatically than zorn -> shanahan.

ravens will be a better test than were the bills.