woensdag 20 april 2011

woensdag 20 april 2011 Up at 4:08. Listen to BBC News. Rice and sesame tofu for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Hal Sparks is streaming from an undisclosed location.

Steph talks about her appearance on the Joy Behar Show yesterday with Andrew Breitbart the author of Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save The World. Steph cracks me up.


Shower. Walk up to work. Busy day with 40-minute lunch breaks. 10 - Breaks for Kenn, Anne, Elaine and Sam. (Sam goes home sick.) Walk into the Seahorse classroom, Patty is reading Tuesday. It's crazy. Frogs are flying and chasing dogs.

11 to 11:40 - Patty's lunch. I'm outside with the 8 Seahorses. Fun on the playground. 11:40 to 12:20 - Kenn's lunch. The 7 Sea Horses finish lunch and head down for naps. 12:20 to 1 - Cristin's lunch. The 8 Starfish finish lunch. Toni reads books while I change a few diapers. 1 to 1:40 - Toni's lunch. The Starfish are fighting nap time, and my back is killing me. I just can't chase and wrestle with these kids. Sabrina helps us out. Thank you, Sabrina. 1:40 to 2:20 - Elaine's break. I take a few early risers to the Bike Room. I get to leave early because of my bad back. Instead, I start Project: Return My Old Modem To The Comcast Service Center. Streetcar to d'town. I catch a #358 just in the nick of time up to Bitter Lake. It doesn't take long to hand in my modem. 4:08 another #358 back. A cute kid with a rainbow decal on his jeans sits across from me. He flashes a smile at me before his boyfriend sits down next to him. They don't talk to each other at all. 4:50 arrive in d'town Seattle. Back to my place, I change clothes and watch Futurama - When Aliens Attack. Much of the episode, particularly the method in which the aliens attack, is a spoof of the 1996 film Independence Day.

I can't believe that Lrrr vaporizes President McNeal like that. Check the Seattle Times. Two reports of interest - Mariners Break Out With Season High 13 Runs, 13 - 3 Rout Of Detroit and Hot Market For Rentals Inspires Twin Towers. Sesame tofu on spaghetti for dinner. Watch Stargate Atlantis - The Prodigal.

And Heroes - A Clear And Present Danger. Heroes are being captured by The Hunter and his team. It's very daring of Claire to jump on the landing gear to get inside the cargo plane to save her friends.

Then Superman/Batman: Apocalypse but I conk out after 20 minutes of it.

dinsdag 19 april 2011

dinsdag 19 april 2011 Up with alarm. Fried egg and a little burrito for breakfast. The Mexican coffee is muy delicioso... Crisp and bright with pure sweet tones of cocoa, bing cherry and fresh citrus.
Turn on Stephanie Miller. They play sound bites of Sarah Palin's speech in Madison for the Tea Party rally. The working class crowd outnumbers the Tea Party crowd 30 to 1 and drowns her out with boos.

Shower. Walk up Westlake to work. 10 - Breaks for Kenn, Pam, Anne and Jessica. I spend most of the day with the Dolphins and Sea Otters. 11 to 11:45 - Elaine's lunch. Hang out with the 7 Dolphins on the playground. When the sun comes out, it's feel quite pleasant. Jessica takes a few inside for diapers and lunch prep. 12 - Pam's lunch. The 8 Sea Otters are eating well. They fall asleep quickly. 1 - Anne's lunch. Quiet time for the Sea Otters. 2 - Jessica's lunch. Sharyn subs for Elaine. Sharyn takes an early-riser outside. I stay with the nappers. When I leave work, I turn on The World. I identify with the people of Sierra Leone. They love their radio. "Radio is like life to us." They listen to Sierra Leone's Independent Radio Network. It keeps their country united.

Drop off stuff at my place. Take a walk down to the library and around d'town. It's a pretty day. Back home, I turn on KOMO News. Weird story about a teenage boy who killed himself after drugging himself with bath salts. Report - Snorting Bath Salts Pushed St. Tammany Man To Suicide. Finish burrito for dinner. Watch Glee - Hell-O. Oh, my. A new cute character appears in the series - Jesse St. James - played by Jonathan Groff. Jesse sweeps Rachel off her feet.

Then Stargate Atlantis - Inquisition. Switch to MSNBC News to watch Rachel. It's scary how she describes how Republicans are transforming local governments into Big, BIG, BIG Government.

maandag 18 april 2011

maandag 18 april 2011 Up at 4:00. Turn on BBC News. The Finns are a bit surprised. Top Story - Nationalist True Finns Gain In Finland Vote. So, it's the trend. Turning right is popular in Denmark, Netherlands and France, too. By the way - France Had Right To Halt Migrant Trains From Italy. Menton, France has been met with "undeclared demonstrations." Left-over Kingfish for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. They discuss the hullabaloo over an Obama e-mail. Report - Orange County Republican Party Leader Slams Colleague Who Sent Obama-Chimpanzee Email. The e-mailer is described as "a polite, gentle grandmother." Steph interviews Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) about his new book A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life.

Explore the Natchez Trail before going to work. Walk up to Whole Foods to get some Café Mexicano and a cookie. Let's remember the hard-working people who pick and prepare our coffee beans.

Busy schedule. Sam shadows me until 11. Fifteen-minute breaks for Cristin, Pam, Anne and Elaine. 11 to 11:45 - Jessica's lunch. I hang out with the 8 rambunctious Dolphins in the Bike Room. At least the Sea Otters know how to clean up the place. 11:45 to 12:30 - Anne's lunch. The 6 Sea Otters are eating lunch. Tanja is subbing for Pam. She tangles with the boys at nap time. The girls go to sleep easily for me. 12:30 to 1:15 - Cristin's lunch. Over to the Starfish. The kids are finishing lunch. I change a few diapers, and Toni reads stories. 1:15 to 2 - Toni's lunch. Only 3 Starfish are sleeping. The other 4 are insomniac. They keep me busy. 2 to 2:45 - Patty's lunch. Quiet time for the 8 Seahorses. Alex wakes up early. 2:45 - Charmaine get a 15. Walk to Convention Center to get my Monday Mundo burrito. Drop off stuff at my place. Check news - One Year After The Spill, BP Is Looking Strong. Those bastards manipulated and coerced the situation to their advantage while residents and wildlife of the Gulf Coast still suffer. Read - Black Tide: The Devastating Impact Of The Gulf Oil Spill.

I need some fresh air. Short walk around d'town. Motorists are heading to the on-ramps to fight traffic... a world governed by our deadly addiction to oil. Back home. Play Futurama - Mars University.

Gearshift: No, Bender, wait. We're the lamest frat on campus. Even Hillel has better parties than us. Please, you've gotta stay and teach us how to be cool.
Bender: Hmmm... okay, but I'll need ten kegs of beer, a continuous tape of "Louie, Louie," and a regulation two-story panty-raid ladder.

You know... I attended Mars University... dropped out after 2 weeks. All I got was this lousy t-shirt.

Burrito and salad for dinner. Watch Glee - Sectionals. Despite many complications, the gang make it to the Western Ohio Sectionals. Rachel makes a dramatic entrance from the top of the auditorium, and she belts out her favorite Barbara Streisand song - Don't Rain On My Parade.

The others follow her down to the stage... receiving a standing ovation. The group then performs You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones, to the applause and cheers of the audience.

Sorry. Glee is all new and fresh for me. Thanks to Netflix, I can watch it. Switch to Hardball. Chris Mathews does a segment - Politician vs. Poet. Rick Santorum's new slogan on his camgaign sit - Fighting To Make America, America Again - has some similarities to the 1938 poem by Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again.

Hughes wrote a beautiful poem about equal rights. It's a chance to put Santorum on the spot. Rachel Maddow - Turn The Lights Off. The Tea Party's Over.

zondag 17 april 2011

zondag 17 april 2011 Up at 3:30 to pee. Turn on Deutsche Welle and I fall back to sleep when it turns into German. Awake again at 6:05. I hear Father Roy Bourgeois "Confronting Militarism in the Americas." The speech was made at The Wallingford United Methodist Church last month. He says War Is Not Peace. Sometimes I feel that our world is pretty Orwellian. Shower. Michael picks me up and we head up to Kingfish Cafe. We meet Brian up there.

Wow... Lots of catching up to do, but we discover that things are pretty much the same for all of us. I'm expecting a brunch rush, but we have the place to ourselves. I have the French Creole Eggtorte with Roasted Tomato Coulis. Yummy! The bartender is very cute. Sorry, kid. Just orange juice for me today. Michael drops me off. Rest a while to digest. I find a station in Pasadena - 89.3 KPCC - which streams A Prairie Home Companion. I'm curious about Pasadena, so I play with Google Earth to explore the city... the parks, the schools, the restaurants and the Metro Gold Line.

Via YouTube, we can even ride the Gold Line from Del Mar to Memorial Park. Catch the 9th inning of the Mariners - Royals game. Yay! Seattle wins 3 to 2. The M's Emerge With A Rare Win. Time to get out of the apartment. The sun is coming out. Take a train down to Stadium Station.

It's very quiet down here. The Mariners will be coming back to town for their next game with Detroit, and it will be busy again. Walk up 4th to d'town.

Catch a #4 bus up to the Seattle Center. It was on this day 50 years ago that they broke ground to build the Space Needle. Report - Seattle Space Needle Turns 50 Year Old. Nice crop of red tulips. Attack of the giant tulips!

But I don't see any Spring Spheres here. Walk back to my place. Listen to Tavis Smiley. Then I watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Poor Sandy. I feel sorry for Billy, too.

Couscous with zuchinis and marinara sauce for dinner. Watch Heroes - Dual then I fall asleep while watching Stargate - Outsiders.

zaterdag 16 april 2011

zaterdag 16 april 2011 Light sleep. Up at 4:40. Play George Carlin: Jammin' In New York. One reviewer says, "There was an anger in him that was so focused and energetic that it was impossible not to watch." He's constantly in motion, pacing around the stage. He spends more than 7 minutes on the Persian Gulf War. It surprises me to see how little has changed since 1992... Iraq, Iran, Libya. Love you George.

Spicy fried rice and 2 fried eggs for breakfast. Turn on Mind Over Matters. President and CEO of the Humane Society Wayne Pacelle discusses The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals. Then CounterSpin: Sharif Abdel Kouddous On Egypt.

Also, Geov Parrish talks about the human cost and the short-sighted callousness of our budget plans. Shower. Turn on Wait, Wait. Train up to Beacon Hill Branch of the SPL. Blog for a little while.

Shop at the Red Apple. Why only single trains today? Train back to d'town. The train is almost packed to capacity. Up to my place. Snack on a p & j sandwich. Short walk around Capitol Hill. Visit Blockbuster and Elliott Bay Books. Listen to Rick Steves' program about facts and figures of the Atlantic Ocean. He interviews Simon Winchester about the world's busiest ocean and Edinburgh Of The Seven Seas which is regarded as the most remote permanent settlement in the world, being over 1,500 miles from the nearest human settlement. Rick also talks with Rev. Jim Wallis about the relevance of travel for spiritual growth. Settle down at home and chose one of the Top 25 Futurama Episodes. Re-play The Birdbot Of Ice-Catraz. The list of 25 was posted in 1999. I also chose Proposition Infinity. Watch Heroes - Our Father. Hiro is 16 years in the past. He has a touching reunion with his mother. She gives him the catalyst and his lost memories.

Mussels in marinara sauce on spaghetti for dinner. Watch movie - Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. In a parallel universe, Owlman is building a weapon, the Quantum Eigenstate Device or QED. When pressed by Superwoman, Owlman admits the weapon can destroy entire worlds. Operating under the theory that there are many parallel Earths, and that each one develops from our choices, he begins seeking Earth-Prime, the first Earth. Owlman, a nihilist, believes that destroying all of the Earths is the only action that would have any purpose. The Justice League must save the Multiverse!

The Martian Manhunter

vrijdag 15 april 2011

vrijdag 15 april 2011 Up with alarm. Turn on KOMO News. Report - Fire At Tacoma Pagoda and Cars Line Up For Free Gas.

Hash browns and a fried egg for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. They mock The Donald mercilessly about his "relationship" with African American community. Donald Trump: I Have A Great Relationship With The Blacks. I love this comment... His troubles with "the blondes" are well-documented. Shower. Before going to work, I watch Glee - Mattress. Walk up Westlake to work. 10 to 10:30 - Empty space. I hang out with the Sea Turtles on their little playground. To the Bike Room for Sarah's break. The Wildflowers are all over the place. 10:45 - Kenn's break. I'm with the Seahorses now. They were running on the deck, but Charmaine and I escort them inside. They sit down on the carpet threading buttons. They love that. I read some books while Kenn does potty time. They give me Good Night Gorilla. I am surrounded by little gorilla lovers.

12 - Cristin's lunch. Only 5 Starfish. I share a nice leisurely lunch time with the kids. Some go to sleep easily. Some are wiggly. 1 - Toni's lunch. Two kids won't sleep for me, but they lay quietly on their mats. We relax and listen to It's A Big World.

2 - Kenn's lunch. It's a fairly quiet hour. Maya wakes up and wants to chat with me. "Shhhh. You're friends are still sleeping." We read the big book of Curious George... just looking at the pictures. Streetcar to d'town. By the way, Happy Pohela Boishakh! It's the Bengali New Year according to The World. Drop off stuff at home. Up to QFC to get some coffee filters. Back to my place. Watch KOMO News. Concerns over cuts of nearly $350 million to the state's K-12 education system. Gov. Report - Chris Gregoire Opposes Senate Plan To Cut Education Money. Now all the local school districts are scrambling to prepare for these draconian measures - cut pay, lay off teachers, eliminate classes, more students per class, and close schools. And the poor new teachers...

Stir fry veggies, rice and tofu for dinner. Watch a double feature of Stargate Atlantis - First Contact and The Lost Tribe. Yay! Daniel returns! Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) comes to Atlantis to search for an secret Ancient lab. With Rodney's help, they discover the lab and a powerful weapon against the Wraith. Lots of action. Boom! The central tower explodes.

The Wraith commandeer the Daedalus and threaten to feed on Richard Woolsey.

The Asgards of the Pegasus Galaxy are more self-centered than those of the Milky Way and want the Wraith destroyed at all costs. Daniel tries to negotiate with them.

Next... Futurama - The Farnsworth Parabox. Farnsworth creates a box with an alternative universe inside it which has more A. U's. So funny! The Bobble Head universe is numbered 1729. This number is Ramanujan's taxi-cab number, Bender is Mom's 1729th son, and Zapp's spacecraft the Nimbus is labelled BP-1729.

Watch some Deutsche Welle TV. Midnight movie - Toy Story 3.

donderdag 14 april 2011

donderdag 14 april 2011 Up at 4:44. Turn on France 24. Report about the oldest nuke in France - Fessenheim. Rice and spicy tofu for breakfast. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Oh, Chris! He plays the Foo Fighters in one of his bumps Times Like These. Yay! Nice way to start the day.

Walk up to Kaladi for some of Jeremiah's coffee. He's getting ready for the Seattle To Portland ride. I tell him about my experience of riding from Vancouver, BC. Back to my place to shower. Watch Glee - Hairography before leaving the place. My, my. Rachel tries to impress Finn with her impression of bad girl Sandy from Grease.

Streetcar to work. Another busy day. Break for Kenn. He sets up a bin for water and bubble play. Outside for Sharyn's break. Only 3 Sunshine Kids on the big playground. Up to Wildflowers for Sarah's break. My pal - Tucker - gives me a little red frog.

11:15 to 12:15 - Charmaine's lunch. The 8 Seahorses are blowing off some steam out on the playground. We hop in and out of Hula Hoops. Kenn takes a few inside for potty time. We sit down for lunch. 12:15 to 1:07 - Cristin's lunch. The 7 Starfish are finishing lunch. I do a few diapers. It doesn't take long to get them all to sleep... ALL OF THEM! Yay! 1:07 to 2 - Toni's lunch. I enjoy a quiet time with the Starfish. 2 - Kenn's lunch. One of the kids wakes up crying who wakes up someone else. The rest sleep, however. It's raining, so I take the streetcar to d'town. I hunker down inside my apartment because...

It's raining. Turn on KOMO News. Fun with Futurama - A Flight To Remember. Then Stargate Atlantis - Tracker. Jennifer Keller fries Kiryk's tracking device. Ouch!

Tom Kha Phak noodle soup and spinach salad for dinner. Watch Heroes - Eclipse I & II.
Nathan, Peter and the Haitian have found Baron Samedi's camp. It's pretty gutsy of Peter - lost in the middle of Haiti - to go up against Samedi's army all by himself. He surrenders with an empty automatic. Now what?

Switch to MSNBC News and watch Hardball. Whew! Chris Salutes Mitt Romney. Then Rachel Maddow. GOP Wants to 'Transform' Social Security. Transformers! More than meets the eye!