Strangechord

• One of my biggest pet peeves is when people don’t do what they say they’re going to do, especially when they honestly seemed really eager do said thing. Oh, and when people don’t respond to imperative e-mails requiring a one-minute reply. Hate this. When people you know check their e-mail every day don’t get back to a simple question for four days or…never at all.

• Spent five hours earlier helping a friend pack and schlep moving boxed. Right now, I’m sitting outside at an indie coffee shop in nineties weather. Just had a bottled IPA and it made me so freakin’ drowsy and the world so dreamy that I’m now drinking a strong iced coffee to wake up. Tonight we, Portland Peak Oil, are showing “The End of Suburbia”, a peak oil doc, in SE Portland and I expect 80+ people, including many local sustainability movers and shakers. Should be a blast. I love this city.

• Saturday, Jeremy’s leaving for a two-week tech (Oracle) training in, get this, Bushkill, Pennsylvania. Ironically, it’s a fairly conservative area. I kept accidentally calling it Killbush, PA until Jeremy told me I better get it right or the Secret Service will be after me.

• There’re all sorts of entries around the blogosphere where pro-choicers are admitting their resignation due to the Roberts Supreme Court nomination. I too feel it’s only a matter of time before Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion becomes a state by state decision, which will be a tragedy for lower income women. I’ve outlined my thoughts on abortion already here (I do not think abortion is “a necessary evil” like many; I don’t think there’s anything evil at all about it - in fact, I side with this post) and all I gotta say in light of Roberts is “blue cohosh”.

• I’m disappointed that nine inch nails and Tori Amos tickets this summer are over $40 each. Screw that. (Although I did pay $65 for Dead Can Dance’s reunion show in September in Seattle.) Recently discovered music I enjoy: Gas, Eluvium, Esem, Secede, and Proem - yeah, pretty much all IDM and ambient.

• I’ve been going for many long rides lately on my new graduation bike. I like to ride even in the crazy heat, and always for an hour or more at a time. It’s weird… I really get off on the sheer determination of it.

Gotta run.