What is this world coming to?

The Grateful Bread is out of... bread.
Top Pot Doughnuts is out of... doughnuts. No really, completely out.
You're not allowed to bike at... the park.

But Top Pot did offer some small consolation:

It's a fine world we live in

How is it that "only the finest and best ingredients" make it into a huge percentage of food stuffs? Wouldn't that claim lead you to believe you're eating something with ingredients so good they only make it into a small, particularly nutritious item of food? Survey says no.

Great minds think alike

You know he's a kindred spirit when the email says, "...I saw this pic earlier today and thought you would get a kick out of it for some reason. I think we both see things that are just a bit out of place and wonder why????"

Followed by this picture:

A taste of what's to come

It's sixty degrees and rainy out this morning. I've been in denial the past few weeks. Those tree branches starting to turn orange and red? They're just sickly. The subtle change in the hues of green? Figments of my sleep deprived mind. But I can't deny it anymore- fall is rapidly approaching here in Seattle.

Speaking of tastes of the future, I saw this in the nurses lounge last night. Yummy.

It was THIS BIG!

So Jin Sheen and her friend came to Seattle to visit! Well, not just me, but I like to pretend :) We only got to spend a little while together, but we did manage to take a kayaking/whalewatching tour from San Juan Island. It was moderately cold and rainy and the current was six knots in some places, but we were the only group to round the point and were rewarded with a beach to ourselves and a fantastic lunch spread. Our guide was pretty cool too- he served us chocolates on his paddle. That's cool, right?

While we had been told no whales had been sighted for quite a while, we were still hopeful. You can imagine our excitement when we heard about and then saw a pod of orcas way off our port bows (that's left for you landlubbers). You can't imagine our excitement when a second pod came straight at us! This picture doesn't do the experience justice, but as far as I know it was the only picture to be taken. They came at us, and we could hear them "singing" to each other as they passed underneath our kayaks.

Wow. Just... wow. What a treat for us- especially Jin!


What is it called when whales "sing," or communicate to each other?

I don't get paid enough for this

Last night at work the respiratory therapist asks, "so how do they decide who becomes a nurse and who becomes a respiratory therapist?" We shake our heads because we all know they're both crazy. Miguel continues, "They put some people in a pool of poop up to their necks and start shooting phlegm at them. Whoever ducks is a nurse, and whoever takes it in the face is a respiratory therapist."

Huh, you don't say.

Food stuffs

So Ben is moving to California in a few weeks. I keep wanting to say I'll miss him, but we've only seen each other a handfull of times since I moved here. Still, though, we have a good time every time we eat together and I will miss that. Last night we went out for supper and I couldn't resist posting this. Can someone explain?

Tonight I tell my grandma the soup is really good, what is it? To which she replies, "wieners, vegetables, and beer."

Ah. No wonder!

In which Google disappoints...again.

Guava Sobet brought to you by... Olympic Mountain Ice Cream?

This oddity again brought to you by the ice cream parlor selling low fat sweet cream yogurt. No, I didn't try it (though I do like guava!).

On a completely different note, I stumped Bob, knower of all things Google, with a fruitless Google search. Apparently the now defunct fishbone lab value structure has been removed from recorded history! For any of you curious, I now have the only image of it on the web- according to Google. Consider yourself the chosen few (the very few according to my ClustrMap).

And speaking of readership, who is reading me in Europe? Matthew, is that you?

Be still and know that I am God

Looks like Seattle's weather lately, but this was actually from the hangar back home. Hi mom!

Loving all the attention

"Chuck, Chuck bo buck,

banana fanna fo ...um...

me my mo muck, Chu-uck!"