fractured reality

Last week I bought a soda machine, which is jsut a glorified, prettied-up gas regulator. But since I buy and drink so damn much seltzer, I figured this was the next step, to save on bottles, etc.

It’s wonderful. Want some seltzer? PFFFFFFSSSSSH! There you go!

Hot damn.
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This weekend we took a field trip to Columbus, due to Hot Fuzz, the limited release of which precipitated a visit to the state’s capital. I cannot recommend the movie enough. Beyond that, we seized the chance to visit some of our favorite eateries, including Betty’s in the Short North and Akai Hana (formerly Restaurant Japan), and both were wonderful. We also picked up a few pints from Jeni’s to round out the day.

In going to eat at Betty’s, we parked in our old neighborhood (our City V permit is still technically valid until October) and realized that there was a gathering at the park, which, if the trash cans were any indication, was Comfest! I hadn’t realized it was so early in the year, probably because the cold went on so long this year.

Anyhow, we were sorta on a time budget, so we didn’t really stop to listen, we just wandered through the park a bit before dinner.

Sunday was more laid back, and I got to go out on the scooter for a couple hours, which was terrific, and I stopped by the heron nests for a bit to watch the continued nest building. Becca did some planting during that time, but since then, cats have come and dug up part of the soil. We must now consider counter-measures.

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Is that 40% volume? Weight? Count? “Less than 40% Peanuts” it says here on my container of mixed nuts. Worrisome that peanuts are not even listed in the ingredients, which include “Cashews, Almonds, Walnuts, Pecans, Brazil Nuts,Peanut oil, Salt, Natural Flavoring.” Peantus are so unimportant, such base matter for the mixed-nut going community that they aren’t even LISTED.

Poor peanuts. Poor, poor peanuts.
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While horrifying, it is important to note that whatever response the media, government give, it will be purely reactionary, and not at all aimed at the actual cause of the tragedy, nor the statistical (un?)importance of the event.

So it goes.
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Once, Kurt Vonnegut said:

I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, “Isaac is up in heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.

So: Kurt is up in heaven now.

So it goes.

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