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Jun. 14th, 2003 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I've just taken a shower and am lying on my bed, mostly naked. Dave is standing by my bed.
"I'm having impure thoughts about you," he says. I look over at him. "I think I'm going to teach you XML."
Yes, dear readers, I love my geek.
"And you're gonna love it," he adds.
"I'm having impure thoughts about you," he says. I look over at him. "I think I'm going to teach you XML."
Yes, dear readers, I love my geek.
"And you're gonna love it," he adds.
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Date: 2003-06-14 06:49 am (UTC)I love geek love.
Nothing says intercourse'n'lovin' like programming languages.
My geek is the best geek ever.
It's gonna RULE. We just spent the afternoon planning it, with a chalkboard and a bunch of little pieces of paper and a Sharpie and all kinds of document object models. And colored sidewalk chalk.
And now, he's doing the dishes.
:-D
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Date: 2003-06-14 04:59 pm (UTC)hiya!
Date: 2003-06-14 11:35 pm (UTC)Just a shout-out from Juneau! Sorry for the LJ posting, but I forgot you and Zobar's email, and bandwidth is about as easy to come by as total darkness around here.
I'd like to report that I was not eaten by an 800lb grizzly, although the chances of that seemed rather high when he was on his hind legs a few feet (and by few, let's say double-advance-lunge distance) away. Such experiences bring 3 thoughts: 1) I hope he's not as hungry as I am. 2) This kayak paddle seems very flimsy. 3) Shit. Camera's still in the boat.
Despite the danger, this is the most beautiful place on earth. That said, I could not live here; how people survive without grocery stores is amazing. Actually, I'm in Juneau now, which is kinda like Rochester, only at sea level, surrounded by beautiful mountains. Which is not like Rochester at all. And there's no Tahous, although I found a very nice pizza joint called Bullwinkle's.
Speaking of mountains, I climbed one. My parents thought I was only going on a 4 mile hike up to one of the glacial lakes above Skagway. 4 miles is approximately correct, as the crow flies. If the crow could fly horizontally through mountains. It was thrilling and cool and dangerous and dumb and whole bunches of fun, and yes, I brought my camera for muchos photographs of above-cloud goodness.
Speaking of food, I'm going salmon fishing tomorrow. The King Salmon are running, so maybe I can land a 40lb fish and have it smoked and shipped back to Rochacha for Alaskan fishy goodness.
Ciao for now!
darius
Re: hiya!
Date: 2003-06-15 05:49 am (UTC)...
I'll email you. Such a weird dude you are.
:-)
Re: hiya!
Date: 2003-06-15 10:38 pm (UTC)Update: fishin' was good...apparently the pickins have been very slim in the area, but we caught two 25lb female King Salmon (and several cod) in 4 hours on the boat. Well, my sisters did. I had a much larger one on my pole (verified by our captain), but he broke the line.
Our captain was highly entertained back at the dock. When we were gutting the fish, he pulled out a bunch of roe, he said, "mmmm..." and bit a few right from the egg sac. "Want to try?" Apparently we're the first group who ever did.
But I'm having one of them smoked and shipped to me in Rochacha....mmmmm....
Most ungood thing: taxi pickup from hotel at 4:00am to make a 6:00am flight, and I won't get back in Rochacha until 10pm.
darius
Re: hiya!
Date: 2003-06-16 04:12 am (UTC)Wish I got a vacation like that! Boo. Well, good for you. Right now the list of places I have to go is so long that even without comparing it against the list of how much time I will ever have off (none) it's overwhelmingly long. As it stands now, i will never get around to any of the things I'm supposed to be doing.
Dave and I are in the process of creating a new website, which will contain a journal that will be far more interesting, at least to you, if for no other reason than the technical stuff involved in it. Dave says he and you mostly just dorked out when he last saw you, going on about XML. He's decided it's going to be an integral part of the new Website. So the two of us are going to be busy for the next few weeks/months...
The fishing all sounds very amusing. I have only recently been exposed to both the wonder that is salmon and the terror that is the actual size of a salmon. My family weren't big fish eaters, but Dave's family were. We were promised the ugly stuffed fish that Dave's mom wouldn't let his dad hang on the wall anywhere in the house, but we forgot to actually take it, so our apartment's decor remains fishless. (It's a good-lookin' fish, man.)
I've heard that salmon is good for the skin, and you know me with my stupid skin especially on my hands, so Dave and I have adopted a salmon-is-health-food policy and eat it whenever possible, with far more gusto than is usually reserved for health food.
So, how does fresh raw salmon roe taste? I've never had it prepared, either.
So, enjoy your long-ass trip home (traveling is interesting, right?) and all that...
Blergh, Mondays are so dispiriting... it's the first actually nice day we've had in about a month, and I have to go spend it at work. Ptooie.
Oh well. later...
Re: hiya!
Date: 2003-06-17 09:25 am (UTC)I came to Rochester via Seattle and Newark (respectively, thank god!), and got in at 10pm.
Salmon roe is pretty good. Very oily. I'm not a big caviar fan -- it's good enough, but not worth the hullabaloo.
Pictures deposited at Rowe today, promised by 4pm tomorrow.
darius
Re: hiya!
Date: 2003-06-16 08:17 am (UTC)