To the Goddess of Knowledge

You have no idea how mad and hurt I am right now. You also have no idea how much I care about you. I miss you too.

Girls gone wild

Every time I see those ads, two words come to mind... "Hi Dad". Way to go there, slutette.

Best Saturday Ever

First, this is a note to remind me to blog my experience of nearly shooting a drunken/drugged dipshit Thursday night... while nude. Note to the tweakers of Portland... I'm heavily armed, fairly well trained, sleep only slightly more than you do, and I will absolutely pull the trigger. There is nothing in my house worth your life (assuming you value it. I do not.). As your friend found out, there are better places to be at midnight on a Thursday than my house.

Next, today we went up to a favorite mushroom spot to pre-hunt in anticipation of next week... We spend our anniversary (which we've decided is Memorial Day) every year hunting morel mushrooms. We killed. We got about 3/4 of an ice chest full, and we only hunted two spots that we knew have been productive every years and were easy and quick to walk (out of the 4-5 in the area we know are good). Spent 2-3 hours tops.

As is happens, there's a nice restaurant in town we go to 2-3 times I week. No, this is not the Night Light. To my bar stealing friends at work.... You should know I would NEVER tell you a place was my favorite until I had a new favorite :). We're good friends with the manager (I think... Chris what the hell is your job?) and the head chef (who Shannon knows from N. Dakota). We had told him if we did good we'd hook him up. We don't believe in selling them and we had more than we could use. We gave him half a cooler full (probably a couple hundred). He made a different dish with them every 20 minutes or so until we were full. Sauteed in white wine, garlic and onions, with asparagus in a goat cheese sauce, and a "Philadelphia" sandwich (open faced with red green peppers and cheese). We ate like there was no tomorrow. You should have seen his eyes light up when we brought the cooler in and opened it up. Not only did we get a TON of mushrooms, I had the head chef at my favorite restaurant cook them for us. All I had to do was drink a beer and wait. That is the ONLY way to hunt morels. I've been cooking them for well over a decade, and after my first bite of this fella's work I told Shannon "I got served!"

Anyway, thanks guys. You made us feel like the king and queen of Portland today.

Latest excuse for slow updates

I know you all hang on my every word. Really.... With content as fresh and exciting as this, who can blame you? Well, here's the scoop.

A) I have a job. Work is batshit right now. As much as I love you, and you know I do, you don't pay me. These folks do, and right now they're paying me to make a pile of shit look pretty, so that's my first priority

B) My wireless setup is all fucked up. My fault? Probably. Basically, if I don't update at work (like I have time... see above) I update at home from my couch. If that's not working as it should, which is the case now, then updates wait. I'll be upgrading the whole thing soon, so wait for more updates and excuses. BTW, if you know a school/church/whatever that needs wireless and a printer let me know. I'm looking to maximize the tax write off for my old shit, and I really don't care what you beleive or are trying to teach as long as the write off is legit.

Brandie, I'm still pissed at you but I'll get over it. Eventuallly.

Michael, my new lens showed up and I'll have new stuff for you to say "It sucks!!" to soon.

Josh, you are now known as "Buddy Christ"

New Domain Shite

OK, here's how it breaks down for now:

www.wheelwithinawheel.com gets you here
www.jjandss.com gets you to the pictures
www.hotamishgirls.com gets you to my main site, where there's nothing of interest to anyone

Coming soon...

I registered a domain tonight that I intend to turn in my "John's Photos" site. The stuff I like the best, as opposed the stuff from hotamishgirls.com or jjandss.com. Or maybe I'll just direct it here. Whatever. Stay tuned.

Oh, and Brandie is a cold quitter and Josh is now known as Jesus.

John is kinda sad

I said good-bye to a very good friend tonight. As those of you who know me well are already aware, I tend to bond more with hardware then humans. Nothing personal, but I find most folks either boring or disappointing. There are exceptions, of course, and you know who you are.

Anyway, my Canon digital rebel was a good friend of mine. It was my first real camera, and allowed me to get back in touch, to some degree, with the artistic part of myself I thought I had left behind years ago. We traveled together, and captured feelings and images to share with the rest of the world. To some degree, this machine helped me express to the rest of the world that I'm not just the problem solving machine I probably come across as. There's sights I see that touch me deeply, and if I can keep learning how to express those feelings with other people I might just move towards being less of an asshole.

We had some good times, but I moved on. I've got a better machine, but that doesn't mean I don't feel a little something when I let the old one go. The good news? It's going to a great home. Apparently, there's a kinda stripper ad/pr0n mag in town called sfx effects (supposed to look like sex effects when you're drunk). The guy who bought the camera is using it to shoot naked chicks. I can dig it.

Rock on, you little silver toy. I'll miss you. Snap some T&A for me.

Desperation.... It's what's for dinner

Groom Still Wants to Marry Runaway Bride - Yahoo! News

In other news, while his fiancee has been found, police are still trying to determine the whereabouts of his self respect. A police spokesman has stated that at the current time it appears likely it ran off with his testicles.