June theme was courtesy. I don't think I ever posted that and now school is out. I tried to think of something zippy to say but I'm drawing a big fat blank. I'm going to be offline for awhile so here are some other URLs to keep you busy:
Blog of Psychology
Remaindered Links
Black Table.

Enjoy!

Happy Summer Solstice. We did more today than we normally do in a month. This morning we met Kelly, Dan, Maggie and Quinn for breakfast at Old Wives Tales -- I had almond crepes with marionberry compote -- excellent but filling. We tried to organize a get together with the other XO people in town but didn't work out so it was just the 6 of us and worked out perfect. From there we went to Hawthorn Powell's and looked at books and I didn't find anything I couldn't live without -- unbelievable. Then we went and checked out Matt's new place off of 39th. He bought this giant funky house and he only moved in a couple weeks ago and he's already looking pretty settled. He and Bob are getting their plan ready for their festival run. Then we went to the Delta Park Pow Wow which was fantastic except rainy and chill. We watched the dancers for a couple hours and I won $26 in 50-50. Bob bought an Indian taco and a buffalo burger and I spent my winnings at the vendors and got a really cool pair of beaded earrings. Great day. Now we're curling up on the couch with a fire in the fireplace and some stuff to read.

Yesterday I did my summer clothes shopping in about 15 minutes at The Rack. I found 2 pairs of generic shorts and one pair that's a sort of peach color that normally I would never wear. I also got a shirt with a fairy tale theme and all kinds of sequins on it. I got 6 things for $75 so I thought I did pretty good.

This morning I got up early and did a 3 hr. yoga workshop with Bob Smith and Ki McGraw which was excellent and just what I needed. There was an accident on the freeway this morning and it took me about 25 minutes to just get on the freeway -- during that time I almost changed my mind and went home so I'm glad I stuck it out.

We just got back from seeing The Hulk. Boy, I don't know what to tell you. This is an odd one. The film-making is great and I liked the special effects -- esp. that stuff in San Francisco. But, I don't know. It's worth checking out just keep an open mind.

Here, learn about Cross Border Fraud. You know telemarketing scams and stuff like that. Some lady called the office and told me about all these outrageous fees I'm paying on my phone bill and I said, "How do you know?" and she said it was her job to know and did I want to hear about it or was she wasting her time. Can you guess what I told her?

I forgot to mention earlier that we finally saw The Man Who Wasn't There which is strange even by Coen brothers standards. It's -- well -- I'm trying to figure out how to sum it up in a few words and can't quite come up with it. It's filmed in black and white and looks amazing and the performances are excellent but the story is a big downer with this guy making one mistake that takes down everybody and along with that a UFO micro-subplot. I asked Bob "what are they trying to say?" and he said we'd probably never know.

A lot of activity around here lately. Bob's last day of school was on Friday and he had graduation so it was an 8am to 10pm day. I ran errands and did some yardwork. I got a couple more plants for the yard. I'd like to buy more but I need to figure out what I need first. I hate to just buy a bunch of stuff and have it sitting here wilting on the porch. Also I went to David's last yoga class. I took two months off from class in the Spring and when I came back there were new teachers and other teachers gone and a new system with class cards and news that David was leaving. I didn't go to his class very often and I should have because I need that kick in the butt to push myself to do the harder stuff. My home practice is regular but lazy. So I had a good practice on Friday which I can still feel and I did a good practice myself the past two days plus several long walks. I will fit into my summer clothes before August if I can keep this up.

On Saturday our next door neighbors moved and about 15 minutes later a FOR RENT sign went up. This doesn't have to mean the clanging chimes of doom but we talked to the next door neighbor on the other side and she wasn't pleased. Also on Saturday I had the writers group over and baked scones.

My email went crap! yesterday -- sorry to everyone who got rejected as spam -- as near as I can tell, my ISP thinks that my domain host is a spammer. The way I'm set up is you send me email at my domain and my domain forwards the mail to my ISP address and I get all my mail in one place. So when my ISP thinks my domain is spam -- it rejects all the mail. Large pain in the butt, eh? So for now I have the forwarding disabled -- so you should be able to use the pamrentz.com address. And I've disabled spamcop so I can get all the viagra and super low mortgage rate ads and hopefully I can get this thing cleared up.

We went to see Sherman Alexie last night, reading from his new book: Ten Little Indians. He read for almost an hour. The story was called something like "Looking for a Witness" and the highpoints were fantastic, some parts hilarious, some challenging -- fiction about 9/11. But it dragged in some parts and lost me. He did a long Q&A too. I've seen him read at least 5 times and judging by last night he's softened around the edges -- and I mean that in the best possible way.

It's supposed to be a scorcher today so I've got to dig the hoses out. I have been meaning to take care of that for days.

Here are some fun Matrix Essays for you. This is geek stuff. People who dissect every arcane detail for multiple meanings. I think the alleged intelligence of this movie has been wildly inflated but hey, great car chase.

Check out these excellent cat outfits -- seriously. The gentleman's package was not what I expected. ahem.