Hello friends,

James, Audrey, Kristin, Pete, and Paul are moving in to our cool new art house and we want you to come warm it up and break it in with us. We'll be gathering everyone we know to come and have an art experience with us and our good friend Emily Potter will be back in Portland to help make it magical. We have a vision of music, performance art, food, and excellent company and we need you to be there. Here are the particulars:

When: Sunday, August 14th at 6:30. (Performances will start at 8)
Where: 1505 SE Haig St. in Portland
What to bring: Meat to BBQ (or non-meat for the veggies) and a side dish (chips, drink, etc.)
We will provide plates, silverware, and cups.

There is an opportunity to be a part of an amazing performance too; we need as many volunteers as we can get to create an experience that everyone will remember. The time commitment will be very minimal (seriously, a few minutes) and you don't need any special skills to help out so don't hesitate to be a part of the magic! If you're interested, let me know ASAP.

If others would like to perform, we can facilitate that as well. Let me know what you have in mind and we see if we can make it happen.

Please bring anyone you like!

See you there,

Us

So, the new Harry Potter book...

Yeah, ripped through it over the weekend. Overall, I liked it. I think this one is a lot more movie friendly than the last two books. I also really like how the characters are really growing up. My sister is 14, so about two years younger than the Potter gang, and I bet it's cool to have them basically growing up alongside her. My one big prediction for the book came true (more on this later) But on the other hand as far as suprises go, NOBODY could have seen THIS coming:

Yeah... I know, I'm going to hell (again).

Noooo, it's not your time yet!

So my computer decided to squat down, crap it's proverbial guts all over my desk, and expire. Fortunately I have recently bought an ipod, so I had all of my music backed up. This freed me into going for the more drastic solution. So today I jacked the ol girl on up. Some pokin, prodding, a complete format and reinstall later, and things seem to be healthy and back to normal. Nothing like ripping it apart and building it back up again to sort things out with a computer.

On another note, I finished the new Harry Potter pook yesterday... good times.

On a final note, I have gotten a lot of mail and messages asking if I was one of the people who had hooked up in my last post. Answer: no.. but yes. I hooked up back in May... and things have progressed completely wonderfully. I'm happier beyond words to have real love back in my life with someone who cares about me for me, not the attention I give her, and is interesting in understanding the real me.

Come and face the change...

Well, obviously I'm making a few changes around these parts. I thought a fresh new color scheme, as well as a nickname consolidation (as no one really calls me Adub anymore) would be prudent. Please bear with me in case there are technical difficulties.

Also, all comments have been lost as a result of the switch... all apologies.

The end is the beginning is the end.

Man, what is it in the water here in July? My friends seem to be hooking up left and right!

New robot learns to play guitar, searches for Sarah Connor.

Check this out: Guitar playing robot

Wouldn't it be more useful to create robots that perform automation on things that humans don't actually like doing. Why are they even working on this when there are tons of jobs, like mowing the lawn or walking the dog for example, that I would love a robot / computer to do for me, so i could spend time practicing the guitar on my own.

And In other news, still no cure for cancer.