I'm particularly glad that summer is showing. Last "summer", I came close to mosquito-induced asphyxiation several times in the Alaskan wilder-regions, and am thankful that this year I won't be tucking long johns into socks as a fruitless attempt to avoid bug bites in the middle of June. See? I'm an adventurer!

Learning how open relationships work. Loving the pants off my best friend and life-mate lady. She lives in Bellingham. It's a bit of a jaunt to be sure, but we're 'in it to win it' as the old maxim goes. Taking a lot of motorcycle rides. Playing a substantial amount of music. Climbing for fun and fitness. Reading many a good novel. Rolling dice. Generally staving off despondency and disappointment in any guise it appropriates itself with.

Being a decent enough artist to inspire the slightest amount of envy and support from my good friends!

I'm one of those "dictionary.com word of the day" bastards.

I read the old Russians, and ponder the social implications of selective nihilism over a neat vodka. Everything is true but the last part.

I feel like I'm Louie ck. but I think Louie ck makes everyone feel like they're Louie ck, and that's why he's Louie ck. well played, you shiesty comedian.

This section is designed to make you betray yourself as a sentimental fuddy-duddy. I am one, of course, but I refuse to make a list of it. Huzzah!

how to pen bleeding-edge witticisms that have the potential to transform a "replies very selectively" gal into a "replies often". But on the real, I dig this quote.

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

-Albert Einstein

We made a Pog drinking game. It's a hit.

I struggle with the whole "Manifest Destiny" thing. By thing, I mean a guy that hangs out at my coffee shop who goes by that moniker.

You're into kickin' it here and there, and aren't lookin' to make me your boyfriend. Or you think we could be chums. Or you have free ice cream to give me. These are the three exclusive circumstances under which you should message me. That's it.