woensdag 31 maart 2010

woensdag 31 maart 2010 Up at Midnight again. Turn on BBC News. I hear some references to Leicester. Their football league is doing really well. Leicester is located on Midland Main Line and close to the M1 motorway. The city has a large ethnic minority population, particularly of South Asian origin, a product of immigration to the United Kingdom since the Second World War. To cater for the South Asian community, there are many Hindu, Sikh and Muslim places of worship. And they will have he Christ In The Centre this Friday. I manage to fall back to sleep, but the computer re-starts itself and wakes me up again. Rice and beans for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Hal Sparks announces that he's planning to donate sperm to a lesbian couple. All of a sudden, women call into the show to support Hal in his "endeavors." Up to Kaladi for some of Jeremiah's Red Goat coffee. Hang around for a little while. Back to my place. Shower. More Stephanie. She talks a little about her visit yesterday with Valerie Bertanelli hosting The Joy Behar Show. You're pretty funny Steph.

Walk up Westlake to work. 10 to 11:15 - Breaks for Kenn, Toni, Patty, Anne and Christin. The Dolphins are playing in goop - cornstarch and water. What a glorious mess!




Hey! How is that Mousse working for you?

What's going on next door? It's a paint mess! The Sea Otters' art project is to paint with their feet on photo paper on the floor. They're painting with their diapers as well.

Watch out... It's slippery. Whoa, dude! Hang 10!

Lots of groups are taking walks on this sunny yet chilly day. 11:30 to 12:30 - Kenn's lunch. The Dolphins are in the Bike Room. Nolan is tired and clingy. 12:30 to 1 - Kechelle's lunch. Wildflowers eat lunch up to 1 o'clock. 1 - Darnell's lunch. One-by-one, 7 Rainforest Kids fall asleep. (Two - No Nap.) 2 - Patty's lunch. Caitlin wakes up early. It's pretty quiet, otherwise. Streetcar to d'town. Walk down to the Pike Place Market. I love the sunshine and the people walking down the sidewalks. I'm listening to The World on the radio. According to one report, The military is figuring out The Logistics Of Withdrawling From Iraq. Down First Avenue to Pioneer Square. Walking by the Elliott Bay Book Store, I see the sign - March 31 - last day. They close today. I wonder how the people feel.

I have mixed feelings. I'll always remember walking across those creaky, wooden floors... using just browsing... because I'm too poor to buy a real book. They hope that they carry on their tradition of hosting readings from important authors at the new place. Good luck, EBBS. Up Jackson to Uwajimaya. Get a couple of things. #41 bus tunnel to my place. Turn on France 24. Big report - The global community pledged nearly 10 billion dollars for Haiti over more than 3 years. Beef and rice noodles for dinner. Play movie - Star Trek (2009).

dinsdag 30 maart 2010

dinsdag 30 maart 2010 Up at Midnight. That's way to early. Oy! Turn on BBC News. I fall back to sleep around 3:00 after hearing about how they turned The Large Hadron Collider back on. Report - Collider Sees High-energy Success. Up with alarm. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Some burrito and a h-b egg for breakfast. Up to Kaladi for coffee. What station is Luka playing? Oldies but goodies. I haven't heard Love Is A Battlefield in a long time.

Back to my place with my coffee. Shower. Back to Stephanie. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) calls in to talk about his proposal to let everyone buy into Medicare if they want to. NPR report - Health Overhaul To Expand Medicaid To All Poor Adults. Walk up Westlake to work. 10 to 11:45 - Planning time for Anne. Kathy covers for Elaine. Seven Starfish are ready to go to the playground. Brrrr. It's only 40° outside. We barely last 30 minutes. There's an art project waiting for the kids in the classroom... stamping a huge envelop with stickers. After that, I do the diapers. 12 - Toni's lunch. Jessica covers for Kenn. Six Dolphins linger at the lunch table. She does the diapers while I clean up the lunch mess. Everyone goes to sleep fast for nap time... except Paxton. He's singing "Up, up, up!" to himself. Kenn deals with him. 1 - Cristin is subbing for Charmaine. It's her turn for a lunch break. I get to fold 3 baskets of laundry while the 7 Sea Otters sleep. 2 - Patty's lunch. There's a baby party out in the hallway and it wakes up our group. It's ok. We read books, put on shoes and change diapers. Streetcar to d'town. Take a little walk around the Benaroya neighborhood while listening to The World. I like the story about Daejon, South Korean where seniors are finding jobs at Silver Fairs. Can I go? Here's the official symbol of Daejon.

Switch over to France 24. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is having a nice visit with his US counterpart Barack Obama.

France 24 also has an interesting report here - The Robot Journalists Are Coming. They interview Nicolas Keyser-Bril of OWNI.FR about data journalism.

The Outer Limits is the 38th element in the Science Fiction Periodic Table. Let's dabble with it.
Watch episode 9, Season 1 - Corpus Earthing. Synopsis: Parasitic advance guard from outer space strive to kill a physician, the only human who can hear them. Instead the physician believes he's gone insane, because he first heard the aliens right after suffering a concussion in a lab explosion. His wife, the laboratory 's assistant, comforts him, while the lab's geologist is targeted for takeover by the parasites.

Left-over burrito for dinner. Watch movie - Bubble Boy.

maandag 29 maart 2010

maandag 29 maart 2010 Up at 2:30. Turn on BBC News. Report - Suicide Bombing in Moscow Metro Kills 38. Documentary about Habeas Corpus. Doze back into a light sleep. Clean up apartment a little for possible inspection by City of Seattle. Black bean and chicken soup for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Steph and the mooks are back! Oh, my. There's a little something - Michael Steele spent some money at a little club in West Hollywood. My Oh My Oh My! Shower. A little walk around d'town. Coffee at 801 Tower Caffe Ladro. Streetcar to work. There's a bit of a cloud burst when I get off the streetcar. Get new Metro pass - $45. 10 to 12 - Planning time for Patty. Tanja covers for Charmaine. Seven Sea Otters have free play. 12 - Toni's lunch. The 7 Dolphins are already done with lunch. I clean up the lunch mess while Kenn does the diapers. 1 - Kenn's lunch. Dolphins are sleeping. The phone wakes up Stella. She pops up and says, "Hello? Hello?" Evanan is struggling next door. He's sad to say "bye" to his mom. 2 - Patty's lunch. I need to calm Evanan somehow. I do it by counting up to 30. He falls to sleep. Caitlin is awake with all the noise. We get out play-doh and books for her. Walk up to Whole Foods to get a few things. Sometimes, I don't understand Whole Foods' protocol. A clerk seems rather snobby. This puts me off. Down to Taco Del Mar to get my Monday Mondo Burrito. Oops! I see that the inspection came to my apartment. The broken flusher in the toilet and the faucets in the bathroom are fixed. Drop off stuff. Short walk around First Hill in the rain. It stops and goes. Back to my place. Turn on France 24 to watch some news. The bombing in Moscow is their top story. Medvedev vows to act 'without compromise' after Moscow metro blasts.


Watch a litle MSNBC News too. Play episode of the Outer Limits - The Human Factor. I like the creapy sound affects when they exchange brains. Yes! Brains! After that, I watch movie - Latter Days. I don't make it quite through to the end. I conk out.

zontag 28 maart 2010

zontag 28 maart 2010 Up at 6:00. Turn on Mind Over Matters. Kathy & Bill Christison talk about US - Israeli relations. Making Contact talks about Race, Immigration and the Fight for an Open Internet. Then TUC talks about history - Who Were The Luddites? Switch to KUOW. A Prairie Home Companion is in Seattle! How fun... performing from the Paramount Theatre. Walk up to Whole Foods to get some things. It starts to rain. Good day to stay inside and play with the DVD machine. Watch 3 movies - Pineapple Express, The Life Of Brian and Pitch Black.

zaterdag 27 maart 2010

zaterdag 27 maart 2010 Nightmare... What made the plane crash? Since I'm awake... I play Red Dirt.

I doze back to sleep. Up again at 10:00. Nice to sleep. Greek omelet for breakfast. Poop! I didn't win Mega. Play another movie - The Running Man - 1987. The film is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2019, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world violence is rising. Future? Present! It's a shame that I'm staying inside all day. It's looks gorgeous out. But I stay in and listen to Rick Steves' program. He talks about how the essence of Greece is found among the pleasures of the Peloponessian Peninsula where historical sites and mythology mix with small towns and uncrowded beaches. Also, an expert on Michelangelo highlights some of the personal influences that epitomize him as Renaissance man. Watch episode of Star Trek TNG - The Drumhead. This is an incredibly dramatic episode. Satie collapses in a fit of rage in the end and lets her real ideas and purposes be seen clearly. Picard states calmly and firmly about how quickly people are willing to blindly trade their liberties for "security". "...spreading fear in the name of righteousness..." Watch the BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Maruchan noodles and chicken for dinner.

vrijdag 26 maart 2010

vrijdag 26 maart 2010 Up with alarm. Turn on Hal Sparks. He reports a little good news - US, Russia Reach New Arms Control Deal. Hal and John Fugelsang get a little silly about this... "Wheww...I'm so relieved! Instead of being able to blow the world up 100 times over, now its only 60 times over!" I want Obama not to "reduce" but "eliminate" nukes. Gregg Michael joins the guys in the studio to talk about Gays Of Our Lives. Sounds like fun... and Gregory Michael is a hottie. Hal's live stream has 546 people on board.

Rice, beet salad and h-b egg for breakfast. Shower. Short walk around d'town. Passing by the Diesel store at 5th & Pike, I see Sex Sells. Wow!

Streetcar to work. 10 to 10:45 - Open space. Hang out with the Rainforest Kids on the big playground. It's spitting a little rain. 10:45 - Olivia's break. Only 4 Seahorses today. 11 - Charmaine's lunch. Five Sea Otters go out to the playground. Christin is covering for Patty's planning time. Christin has a joyful, positive energy. I like her. The kids like her, too. We head in for lunch. 12 - Toni's lunch. Six Dolphins eat lunch. Austin almost dozes off at the table. Poor guy. I change his as well as the others' diapers. As soon as I lay Austin on his mat, he's out. 1 - Kenn's lunch. While the kids sleep, we teachers talk about the latest developments with the board and our relationship with the Hutch. 2 - Patty's lunch. Evanan wakes up coughing and crying. Then Caitlin wakes up. And Edie wakes up. Oy! We have fun with books. Walk to my place. Passing by the Paramount, I see that A Prairie Home Companion is doing a show tomorrow. Should I go? Drop off stuff. Take a walk up First Hill to Barista Boyz Of Broadway. Only in Seattle. Seeeeeee! Sex Sells! Six-pack abs and a coffee. Back to my place. Turn on The World. The Geo Quiz offers us a different dimension to the question... I love it! Where is Kármán line? Chicken and Maruchan noodles for dinner. Watch movie - Regular Guys... A cop who has trouble with his sexual life. Interesting. Eh?

donderdag 25 maart 2010

donderdag 25 maart 2010 Dream about the alarm going off. Of course, that's not reality, so I'm up at 4:50. Turn on AM 1090. Bill Press discusses the possible effect of health care votes on November Elections. Hal Sparks is upset with the Tea Klanners as he puts it. "They're cowards!" A lot of Representatives call in to talk about the latest news on reconciliation. Frittata for breakfast. Up to Kaladi for some of Frank's fabulous coffee. Back to my place. Shower. Streetcar to work. It's drizzly. 10 to 12 - Planning time for Pam. Kenn sets up the water table. Six Dolphins splash, Wow! Teo and Nolan are BIG splashers.

Tanja is extra to help us get the kids into dry clothes. I set up lunches while the kids play in the Bike Room. 12 - Pam's lunch. I have diaper duty while Kenn cleans up the lunch mess. He also manages to get them to sleep by 12:45. 1 - Kenn's lunch. Six Dolphins sleep. 2 - Patty's lunch. Caitlin doesn't want to sleep. She fights Charmaine and me. This is not a restful nap time. Walk up to Whole Foods to get some Asian Noodle Salad, chicken and Syrah. Drop off stuff at home. Play podcast of The World. Munch on a little lunch. Back out into the drizzle. Down to the streetcar station. Wow! Fifth Avenue is blocked with traffic. The streetcar takes 28 minutes to get to the Hutch. All staff meeting with 1.5 STARS credit about values. It's an interesting meeting. Mike Sheehan drives me home in his little gray truck. Watch some MSNBC News. Rachel Maddow. Watch Outer Limits - Nightmare.

It's a very intense episode. -- A group of space troopers are psychologically tortured in an alien prisoner-of-war camp. -- Opening Narration: A war between worlds has long been dreaded. Throughout recent history, Man, convinced that life on other planets would be as anxious and belligerent as life on his own, has gravely predicted that some dreadful form of combat would inevitably take place between our world and that of someone else. And Man was right. To the eternal credit of the peoples of this planet Earth, history shall be able to proclaim loudly and justly that in this war between Unified Earth and the planet Ebon, Ebon struck first. Ebon: Its form of life unknown, its way of life unpredictable. To the fighting troops of Earth, a black question mark at the end of a dark, foreboding journey.

woensdag 24 maart 2010

woensdag 24 maart 2010 Up at 2:10. Turn on BBC News. Listen in bed for quite a while. Report - US Businesses Feeling Unwelcome In China. What's all this about Google vs. China? By shutting down the Google website in mainland China, the American company has acknowledged how the political and geographical impacts that ultimate nowhere-everywhere space: the Internet. Rice and curry chicken for breakfast. Turn on Hal Sparks for an hour. Michael Steele is saying weird things. Hal plays the Shep Smith Vs. Michael Steele thing. Thinking about George Carlin, I play half of Dogma before going to work. I forgot how much dirty language is used. Ladies and Gentlemen, the driving force behind Catholicism WOW, Cardinal Glick. HooraY! It's Cardinal Glick!

"Now we all know how the majority and the media in this country view the Catholic church. They think of us as a passe, archaic institution. People find the Bible obtuse... even hokey. Now in an effort to disprove all that the church has appointed this year as a time of renewal... both of faith and of style. For example, the crucifix. While it has been a time honored symbol of our faith, Holy Mother Church has decided to retire this highly recognizable, yet wholly depressing image of our Lord crucified. Christ didn't come to Earth to give us the willies... He came to help us out. He was a booster. And it is with that take on our Lord in mind that we've come up with a new, more inspiring sigil. So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the "Catholicism WOW. " campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you... The Buddy Christ."

Loki and Bartleby. "The humans have besmirched everything bestowed on them. They were given Paradise, they threw it away. They were given this planet, they destroyed it. They were favored best among all His endeavors, and some of them don't even believe He exists."

"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air."

Hockey kids from Hell!

I love these guys! The prophets - Jay and Silent Bob.

Lovely Serendipity: I'm responsible for nineteen of the twenty top-grossing films of all time.

Walk up Westlake to work. 10 to 12 - Planning time for Charmaine. Kathy covers ofr Patty. The 5 Sea Otters are finishing a foam-paint art project. After diapers, we take the kids out to the playground. Tilia is using a dinosaur as a baby doll, cradling it in her arms.

Together, Tilia and I sing Rock-A-Bye Baby to our little dinosaurs.

It's warming up fast. We bring them inside before Noon. 12 - Charmaine's lunch. Patty does a quick little circle time. Evanan gets upset when it's over. "But it's lunchtime," we remind him. They don't seem very hungry today. They're tired. They're all asleep by 1. 1 - Kenn's lunch. Six Dolphins sleep. Austin wakes up at the end of the hour. 2 - Patty's lunch. Five Sea Otters sleep. I take Caitlin down to the Bike Room when she wakes up. She just wants to sit with me. When I go home, I see that the rest of the group is still asleep. Long naps. Walk home in the nice sunshine. Turn on The World. I like the chat with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver about the healthy food “revolution” he’s trying to start in the US. The Culture War In Tel Aviv is rather interesting... mostly going on in the Ramat Aviv (רמת אביב) district. Switch to France 24. The question of the day - Politics: Still A Man's World? And they interview Bob Geldof about his experiences at the latest G-8 summit and his efforts towards international social justice and peace. Pasta and curry chicken for dinner. Continue Dogma.

The Stygian Triplets

dinsdag 23 maart 2010

dinsdag 23 maart 2010 Up at 3:10. Turn on BBC News. There's a lot of Business talk. They also have a special report about the Sierra Leone Civil War... the horrible atrocities. Turn on Hal Sparks at 6:00.

Beet salad and hard boiled egg for breakfast. Up to Kaladi for some of Frank's delicious coffee. Hang out in the shop for a few minutes. Drop off 2012 at Blockbuster. Back to my place. Listen to Hal Sparks. John Fugelsang joins him in the studio.

They air Barack Obama's Signing Of The Health Care Reform Bill LIVE!

Listen to KUOW's Weeekday Show on my walk to work. The issue is Child Soldiers. Interview with guest Jacob Acaye who grew up in Northern Uganda. He was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) at age 11 and was held captive for three weeks before was able to escape. Now he's 20 years old, and he talks about his involvement with Invisible Children. Walk up Westlake to work. 10 to 11:30 - Planning time for Anne. Sharyn covers for Elaine. I meet the 6 Starfish out on the playground. They are really involved with the sandbox. When we head back inside, I do the diapers while Sharyn gets the bean table out. 11:30 to 12:30 - Pam's lunch. I meet the 6 Dolphins in the Bike Room. Kenn and I get into a discussion about comedian George Carlin... and his misanthropic sense of humor (in Carlin's words) "humanity's bullshit" which might include murder, genocide, war, rape, corruption, religion and (children warriors in Africa).

George, you are so right on! And Kenn... You sound a lot like George. Back to the classroom. The Dolphins have lunch. I do the diapers while Kenn cleans the lunch mess. 12:30 to 1:30 - Kenn's lunch. The Dolphins go down easily for naps... but I hear a rather familiar struggle next door. "No!" I missed all the Sea Otter drama. 1:30 to 2 - Jenny's lunch. She's subbing for Charmaine. The Sea Otters are all asleep. Wyatt wakes up toward the end of the hour. We read books and look through photos in the camera together. Listen to The World on my walk home. Hey! I'm not the only one who enjoys Google Earth... People are using Google Earth to find impact craters on our planet. Report - Democratic Republic Of Congo Ring Could Be Giant 'Impact' Crater.
At home, I switch to France 24. France (and Europe in general) comments about American "backward" views about the issue of health care. "Finally," one man says, "They join the normal world." So, one of the top stories on France 24 - Obama signs milestone healthcare reform bill into law.

Joe Biden: "The Greatest Wealth Is Health."

And Ted Kennedy's widow was in the crowd. It's easy to give into cynicism, but I believe this is right. Watch episode of the old Outer Limits - The Guests. A leather-jacketed young man is forced, against his will, to walk up the stairs in an old house to a room where he is interrogated by an alien. Geoffrey Horne plays the role of the handsome "Drifter."

Very smart. He knows... that he needs to leave the house. This is quite an emotional episode... choices about life, death, the ability to leave the past behind and move forward. I think all the actors do a great job and lend an air of remorse and nostalgia to the episode. Rice and Cholay Chicken for dinner. Watch movie - The Meaning Of Life.

maandag 22 maart 2010

maandag 22 maart 2010 Up at 2:00. Turn on BBC News. Listen to Outlook for a little while, and I doze back to sleep. Burrito for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller, but Hal Sparks is subbing for her this week while she's on vacation. He interviews The Rude Pundit about last night's vote on health care. Hal and Rude sound a little giddy about the victory. "Health care reform is the law of the land." Teabaggers can go home now. "So, c'mon, you town hall patriots, where's the guns your signs promised? What are you waiting for? Or is it that your cause is lost?" Yeah, well. These characters were in D. C. yesterday causing a kerfuffle while the Congress was trying to do something positive.

Walk to Whole Foods to buy coffee - Tanzania Kanyovu - and their beet salad. The coffee smells wonderful. Up Westlake to work. 10 to 11:15 - Cover for Patty's meeting and her break. All 8 Sea Otters are here today. The classroom seems busy, but it's a fun busy. We head out to the playgound. I get about 15 minutes of fresh air, but I need to go inside to set up Dolphin lunches. Erin sets up for the Sea Otters. 12 - Pam's lunch. Stella doesn't eat a bit of her lunch, but the others linger. Kenn does the diapers. I clean up the lunch mess. 1 - Kenn's lunch. Seven Dolphins are sleeping. 2 - Patty's lunch. They're wrapping up a Observation Meeting. The Sea Otters sleep. Wyatt stirs a few times, but I can easily get him back to sleep. Walk up to B'way over to Kyoto Teriyaki for some Broccoli Beef for dinner later. Back at my place, I turn on The World. They get an international perspective of the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill from reporters from Der Spiegel and the Toronto Star. Watch MSNBC News. Teriyaki beef for dinner. Watch movie - Madagascar 2.

zondag 21 maart 2010

zondag 21 maart 2010 Up at 6:00. Turn on KEXP for Mind Over Matters. Between The Lines talks about the social movements in Latin America. Vicki Robin interviews John de Graaf about Take Back Your Time - Time is Not Money: Waking from the Workaholic American Dream. "Time is a valuable resource." I'm listening to a repeat of a program, so I turn off the radio. Play movie - 2012.

It's a fun movie. Philosophical note - Emmerich sets up the social borders that divide us more than we think. In a world that is coming to an end, it's not the strong who survive, only the smartest and the wealthiest... It's almost all luck. The sun is going crazy... sending out neutrinos in giant solar flares.

Woody Harrelson plays one of my favorite charters - Charlie Frost.

Charlie has a unique skill for animation of the 2012 phenomenon.

This is Southern California falling into the ocean.

The government can't keep it a secret anymore. The president makes the painful decision to tell the people.

Tenzin is the Tibetan Buddhist monk who saves his family as well as the Curtis family with his little red truck.

After the oceans recede, Africa emerges.

I'm sitting on pins and needles about the Health Care Reform vote... as well as Michael who is working on my little Samsung. Michael calls when it's ready. I head up to get. Nice upgrades. Thanks. Back to my place. Play another movie - The Simpsons. It cracks me up!