Monthly Archives: July 2008

Three Lakes, WI

Originally uploaded by shannonerin

If I take a person to Three Lakes, it is easy to see why I find the place so special. Pictures, as beautiful as they are, do not capture the wonder of the place. Our little cabin (divided among three families) was the setting for my mom’s “Positive Thinking Cancer Treatment Tape.”

If there is a Heaven, then for my mom, it was Three Lakes.

I do not invite people to Three Lakes. It’s my place. I do not mean to sound elitist about it; however, how many people would you invite to your secret happy place?*

I will summarize the trip thusly: The Yaqi gods of Wisdom, ancient beings summoned with the power of Tequila and music, blessed our trip. The best part of the trip was the boat trips. Despite me flashing an old lady on another pontoon boat (honestly, she turned around just as I started peeing) the trip was incredible. Our old boat was clunky and smelly. The new one was clean and smooth, with a hell of a sound system to boot. WE tooled around the chain of lakes, dodged most of the bad weather, and raided smaller boats for maids and booty.

Well, not so much the last point, but I did feel like a pirate captain.

I am sure everyone wants to know how wonderful three lakes was. We’ll get to that before friday. I think that right now, this is more important.

As a general rule, I do not blog about WoW . I have met wonderful people (Jackbooted Right Wingers among them) and told some pretty damn cool stories with it. All in all, it is a very positive experience–even when the game itself is being wonky. I don’t even typically post when someone is being stupid in game. For the most part, what happens in WoW stays in Wow.

This is an exception.

Last night, a brief discussion of Habeus Corpus, Due Process and Search and Seizure rights started. For the most part, these conversations are civil and, to a degree, left of center. At this point someone I do not know well said, “Due process for our enemies. That’s great.” That’s when the chatter started. Some folk tried to figure out what this guy meant. Others jumped out of the conversation. I added my two cents–which was, “Due process rights are human rights, and until we fight aliens, our enemies are entitled to them.” I then followed up with, “we should probably move on.” Twice.

If Lewis, the aforementioned right winger, and I got into this conversation, I think we both would have quickly agreed to disagree–or taken it to the blogs. WoW and Politics don’t need to mix.

The person in question said something else, “Yeah, I get it. I need to shut up” and left the channel. I have a problem with this. ITs the rough equivalent to a temper tantrum. I don’t have a problem with the thought as much (although I’m on the record saying some rather strong things about the idea of our “enemies.”) but I do have a problem with throwing down the political gauntlet and running away, especially if it disrupts my hobby.

Now that I got this whiny blog off my chest, I can go back to real work.

Really Quickly:

Will pointed out that Andy Dick was recently arrested for sexual battery and drug charges. He was held on bond and released. Now, Andy isn’t exactly a grade-A celebrity. He is a Top Quality CoBag, but that is immaterial to the story. The fact is if one of my clients had done this and had drugs in his pocket, he would have been held longer. Given that this is not Andy’s first time getting busted for drugs or sexually inappropriate behavior, I believe a $5,000 bail is insanely low.

Actually, one of my clients did do something like this in a school setting. He was in jail for over 48 hours. It was his first offense. Why this Dick is getting special treatment is beyond me.

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For the Record:

VON is one of the greatest people in the universe, and I am glad that I met her.

Itanya is one of the reasons why I would consider moving from my fair city of Portland. She rules.

AG Is my non-sexual hottie blogger girlfriend. I’m her nonsexual goya (is that the right word?) love-toy.

Shannon rules.

I am quite fond of the manager of Sids, Timmy.

I had about 5 double vodka tonics last night in 4 hours.

Window’s 98 BLOWS

I miss Will and Sara every day.

Other statements required for the record?

Hello world.

Since my last gDoc post, I’ve done the following things:

1) Turned 32
2) Went to a wedding with Shannon (awesome pictures to be put up with her approval)
3) Spent 10 hours in supervisor training.
4) Got an awesome t-Shirt featuring my brother (alas, its a size too small. I’m still a Large, not a Medium)
5) Caught up with my monthly paperwork
6) Planned for an exciting vacation with my Boston Peeps.

Each one of these topics could get a decent blog post. For instance, I keep thinking of calling my 32 year the, “year of the bastard” but I don’t want to sound too Warren Ellis-y. I’m no where near cool enough to pull that off anyway. The wedding pictures–there’s a string of teribadawesome pics taken by Shannon while intoxicated. The world needs to see her (drunk) artist Eye.

Supervisor training–this is scary and it makes me think of my dad.

The Boston peeps are going on a vacation with me to my family’s house in 3lakes. I will now list the people I’ve brought to 3 lakes.

Will
Sara(q)
Seth
Mike Williamson
Zach.

That’s it. All of those people have the following thing in common–I think of them as family. that’s it. I am that fond of the Boston people.

There is more-nerd stuff, angry politics, music discoveries-but gDocs isn’t really that helpful for the blogging. I’m spoiled with ecto; however, I will try to do more than just tweet my blog back to life (seriously, follow the tweets).

More later. Now I have to write an intake. By intake, I mean nerd stuff I owe my nerd peeps.

Wherein I test googledoc’s post-to-blog feature