My Mind: Lifesized

Some 1974 goodness

My 2018 (so far) list just keeps getting better.

Ummmm.....YESSSSS!

Another of my best of 2018 (so far)

Anything with De La Soul in it moves up the scale, IMO

I haven't posted in an awfully long time and this is part of the reason why....been busy with work, with parenting, with volunteering, and with a START-UP!

Some days I feel like these lyrics apply to me in the, "I'm not famous and wouldn't have these problems but the hook lyrics feel like something I can own" sort of way.

I love music...all kinds of music. This is toe tapping awesomeness!

#14 is Stella Gardner, a freshman player for Strata.  Stella's dad Phil introduced me to Ultimate around 1992 or '93.  Every year since that time I've said I wished I knew about the sport sooner. I absolutely love the sport, - philosophy - the competition - the family. Even now as a crotchity, rickety, old fart it makes me so happy to play.   Spread the love....

SXSW Deliciousness from NPR

Just wait until about 10:30 in to have your mind fully blown

\ "Maybe you thought love was just a game", "maybe you thought your life was just a little strange"...oft used but the way delivered here 'tis exceptional.

Day three of riding the Mountain Line bus and I had my first foul up, learning my first lesson in bus riding...don't try to beat the system!  Smarter people then me figured out the routes and I need to follow them. I tried to jump off route 12, walk 4 blocks and catch route 6 to beat the 12 bus to the transfer station. Only I looked at the wrong line on the route map. So I walked 4 more blocks and caught the U Dash bus to campus and got back on track. My move cost me 30 minutes. Why am I taking the bus? Beyond wanting to support public transportation and Mountain Line being zero fare, we have no working go car at the moment.  Our van is in Coeur d'Alene after it took the brunt of the elk collision and two days ago my car went kaput. We have to either get a new head gasket or drop in a refurbished engine and considering our budget is in shambles, not looking forward to either option. Maybe we'll move to Australia! (Reference to kids book and movie intended).  I am lov...

The bad luck train made yet another stop at the O'Connor house Sunday night, but as the title of this posts suggests, divine intervention and happenstance stepped in and saved the day and our lives. We hit a bull elk at 75 mph on Interstate 90 heading towards Missoula at about 10pm Pacific Time. He was bigger than a horse and, for a flash, a thing of beauty. It had been a glorious day. Liam won a free pass to Silverwood from his school last year for reading and had asked us at least 50 times when we could go...and after all we've been through this year it seemed right to take a day off from the stress of the house and do something fun with the kids. His buddy Rowan spent the night on Saturday and we'd cleared it with his folks, so on Sunday morning I jumped in the van with Jen, Quinn, Rowan, and Liam and headed west to  Silverwood Theme Park  to take in the last day of the season. We rode roller coasters, krazy bumper kars, the log flume (I got soaked much to their d...

Must see video. What insight by Atul Gawande, MD on being mortal The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook , Daily Show Video Archive

I've been a fan for some time and am really enjoying the new music from Stuff Like That There . Here is a link to their First Listen session on NPR  First Listen: Yo La Tengo

The pace of work on our basement has increased daily for the past two weeks. Our construction crew is doing everything they can to try and get us back into the basement before the 25th of August, which marks the 8th month "anniversary" of our troubles.  They are hard-working young men who all seemingly pity us and all we've been through. Yesterday there were painters and electricians, carpenters, and excavators (did I mention we have another problem?) all scurrying about and the basement is really coming into shape. This insurance claim stuff is a funny business. It seems such a long time ago now that the insurance adjuster came to our house with his tape measure, utility knife, and laser pointer to measure and take samples as to put a value on our damaged property. Later, when the work began, it became clear the claim was going to be much bigger than originally anticipated, which made the insurance adjuster quite uneasy. Asbestos and mold were discovered and shortly t...

Wow, they are playing tonight at the Top Hat here in Missoula...while Wilco is playing at Big Sky Brewery. And we are supposed to be camping. Oh what to do, what to do.