Your Fucking Five for August 2013

productivity
Evoken
Lake Chalice Marlborough Pinot Noir
Aeropress coffee
childrearing

the song "where have all the good times gone" by the kinks
summer hours at work
going out to eat in contrast with remembering when we didn't have money to go out to eat ever
la croix
and i guess i have to say "childrearing" now or risk looking like an asshole

Time with my sweetie
Choosing relaxation over having to go something I'm 'supposed' to be at
Visiting family members near and far
Making huge batches of tomato sauce and soups from the garden and freezing them for use in winter
A combination pay raise and loan being paid off

completing everything!
new SG
booking/press
les thugs
wedding/moving/future planning

Chewable vitamins
Rowing machine
Ten hours a day of scoring, every day
Ice packs on my wrists afterward
Gluten-free beer

scoring?

150th Anniversary of the Saratoga race track
Tomatoes
Dental work
Racial Justice class
Air conditioning

scoring?

Musical typing, basically :|

networking
shrub
passivity
underwear you buy individually
jamiroquai

oh SCORING, of course. for some reason i thought it was some king of boating thing? i was conflating it with rowing cause of the previous list item i guess

dark tahini
skies
access to expensive equipment through affiliation with academic institutions
stress
being childreared

fresh vegetables galore
hiking among mountains, lakes, trees, rocks
chores
reading books
lying down on the couch

that is the life

paramore
receiving money in exchange for labor
acer (refurbished, beautiful)
tailored jeans
paramore

Daughter
Music
Wife
Mindfulness
Work/games

civil war history
baking
tending my first potted plant
being ~present~ with my family
not panicking

i've been considering getting into civil war history too but it seems so huge and life consuming that i might save it for another time in life. i did work at a civil war mansion this summer getting them arboretum status - the guy who runs the place is a dude my age who only listens to fife and drum music and put notes like this on our coffee

http://i.imgur.com/C8rOVgo.jpg

fife and drum music is great

Civil War history is more or less something I grew up in thanks to my dad, v much interested in it as a young man and through to the present. The NYT series Disunion that's been running for a few years now looking over the history of the war from 150 years distance has turned up a slew of excellent articles and is a nice way to get beyond the Ken Burns/Shelby Foote framing. And today's entry is about...Tom Ewing!

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/tom-ewings-dirty-war/

(Okay not THAT Tom Ewing.)

kids about to go to school!
actually excited about a camping trip
bought the awesome Hoosier Mama "Book of Pie" cookbook from Paula at the shop http://www.hoosiermamapie.com/bookofpie.html
bought some Morroccan lamb/rosemary/mint/garlic sausage to grill
Going to Publican for dinner tomorrow

anticipating fall
grapes
rereading dune lol
baseball
catrearing

Transfers
CVs
College
Breaking Bad season 1
Lunching at home

i have to make as many things as i can before i die!
i go to work so that i can make things before i die
stanley kubrick is so fucking awesome
i love david lynch
poorly planned trip to iceland to see northern lights, i must do this

paying off debts
submitting poems to places
eating less pizza
naps on the weekend
cigarettes on the couch

catrearing
hipsterized fake vietnamese food
disc 5 of the 1-2-3-4 punk/new wave box set
my hair
the fish chowder i'm making tonight

"fish chowder" is something I wasn't wild about when I ate meat and that I wouldn't eat now but the words somehow have a mystical connection to my innermost being. like you say "the fish chowder I'm making tonight," and even though I know I'd probably say "not my thing" if decided to eat it, still I reflexively go GIMME SOME GOD DAMN FISH CHOWDER MAN BE QUICK ABOUT IT

stepson's wedding
cleaning vinyl w/new Spin-Clean
drying pears in food dryer
blackberry cobbler
ground cherries, so delicious

Is there another chowder but fish/seafood?

freaking out about pending redundancy
feeling totally excited about finding a new job
rewatching The West Wing
William Gibson & old Omni magazines
Aja

aero: i think i'm just missing the northeast and this is my way of acting out. zero of the signified bought me a new england cookbook from the used bookstore out in ventura and i want to make all the fish/seafood stews and chowders in it.

darragh: corn chowder!

dreading a business meeting that someone else keeps postponing
modular synthesiser
avoiding working on these songs
Minecraft
eating desserts

stepson's wedding

Do tell!

Many xposts:

roxy - that old man sounds like a treat! love the coffee note

ned - thanks for that link! Tom Ewing made for interesting reading. The struggle over Kansas was crazy & so violent, I find that area of the war fascinating. I will def bookmark that link & start reading regularly!

xp 200 people!! we will have nine people at our house for about a week - my FIL and BIL, assorted kids & girlfriends/boyfriends, other friends.

it's my wife's oldest son, he's 32. long-term girlfriend w/cool local family.

My wife's dad just got here, he's staying for 2 weeks, we're cooking bacon & eggs and are going to brew fresh hopped beer with our hops later today, good times.

he was a young man tbh, my age! he's crazy, he won't eat pizza cause he's trying to maintain a "civil war era physique"

get that man out splitting rails and he can eat all the pizza he wants

Sounds awes sleeve congrats

Beaches, boats, lakes
Dealing with start of school for kids
Sundry work projects
OITNB
Anticipating Labor Day weekend in NYC

baby
dog
wife
la folie sour brown ale 2013
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Bollocks you dont get another four things for august

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

great book!

he won't eat pizza cause he's trying to maintain a "civil war era physique"

lol

money
Keats
Jackson, Michigan
UT (the band)
any time not at work