feelin the love
been too busy to post photos properly, but here's a few tidbits. so far, it's been a lovely round of celebrating. lotsa good random hanging out with people, and plenty of warmth, laughter and food. here's to more of the same all year for all y'all!
Labels: 39, birthday

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:: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 ::

39, and a dead bird near my house...
this isn't the usual birthday kinda photo, i know. and i don't mean to be morbid or macabre. and this might be a little odd, even for me, but bear with me a bit.

going back some many years--on the day when i ended my college life, and began my (so-called) adult life, and got satchmo (the perfect dog)--there was a dead bird in my path. i had just finished my last final ever (art, i think), and i was addled from lack of sleep, and so when i found the pigeon, i took it to the printmaking studio to sketch from it.

that turned into the day that i got satchmo.

so now i see these sad silent birds as a sign of endings and beginnings. kinda appropos for today. not all bad, not all good. just changing. you know?

note: turns out this is (was) a cedar waxwing, apparently not common in these parts -- thanks to jy for the info!
Labels: 39, birthday, change, satchmo

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:: Monday, July 07, 2008 ::

G'ville was tasty
G'ville is all about the food. Well, for us anyway. We had some good eats... For some reason, we didn't get to the huge okra. But that's prolly cuz we had so much else to eat. Remarkably, we almost finished all the food by the time we left.

Overall, it was a weekend with lotsa good friends, good food (funny how those go together for us) and lotsa hilarious random laughter. I still can't get over the fact that I've been driving all this time without being able to turn my head 360-degrees. Oh, and the truth will out--now we know what therapists think about while in session! Uh-huh. You'll need therapy from your therapy!
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:: Sunday, July 06, 2008 ::

G'ville at last.

Finally in g'ville. No shoes, hammock up, nothing to do. Perfect!
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:: Sunday, April 06, 2008 ::

happy me

(happy birthday to me) it's not an iphone, but mebbe that's the point.
Labels: 38, art, birthday, colors, inspiration, naples yellow, oil painting, prussian blue

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:: Monday, March 24, 2008 ::

off to a good start...

first item as a 38 yr old: kicked sy's butt at scrabble. 335 to 232. woohoo!

(and take note, scrabulous foes, if it weren't for scrabulous, there's no way i'd be kicking so much butt at scrabble!)
Labels: 38, birthday, scrabble

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:: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 ::

toilet math
well, i just got older, and this lovely math book was a gift from the ever toiletry-minded loo. this morning i was excited to learn about fibonacci numbers. you wanna know what i learned? great! (thought you'd never ask...)

take any two numbers, let's say 3 and 17. add them together. this gives you the third number in the series, 20. now add 17 and 20 together. this gives you the fourth number, 37. continue adding numbers in this way until you have a series of 10 numbers.

(ok, here's the exciting part.)

the sum of all 10 numbers is a gnarly bit of addition, eh? nope! all you have to do is multiply the 7th number by 11.

so using our series above: 3, 17, 20, 37, 57, 94, 151, 245, 396, 641.

3+17+20+37+57+94+151+245+396+641 = 151x11 = 1661

cool, eh? well, kinda. turns out, like much else that's been incorrectly attributed, this knowledge predates Fibonacci in India. [From Wikipedia: "Pingala's work also contains the basic ideas of Fibonacci number (called maatraameru)."]

and yes. i also learned the proof for this cool trick, but i'll spare you from that bit o' geekiness (unless you really must know). but learning on the toilet! that's multitasking...
Labels: 37, birthday, fibonacci, geeky, math, numbers, pingala, random, toilet humor

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