fractalnavel

impressions...

ahh - so that was a wine tour, mostly.  or so it seemed when they got back home.  beer too.  and i am a happy beneficiary of the fruits (and grains) of the tour ;-)

so i got to see a couple of good movies, and one of nick's hockey games, and one of allie's swim meets.  fun stuff.  it's nice to like one's family.  even got treated to dinner with nick and his grandparents at an irish pub after the game, watching michigan football.

wireless broadband is wonderful.  i have it here, and they recently got it there.  makes life too easy.  i kept thinking i should be sitting in the lazyboy chair to do my computing, where i could watch sunrises out the front window, but i was in back watching sunsets and the premium cable tv channels that came with their cable service on a promotional basis.

sat outside reading in the sun one afternoon, with a carafe of hot (fresh ground) coffee, watching the hayrides from the neighboring dairy farm go by.  i kept thinking i should be doing something to entertain the unwitting passengers.  or maybe just sit next to the field and wave.

a giant pumpkin followed me home from the hockey game, finding a nesting spot on the front lawn.  it may get carved; if so, i'm supposed to get pictures.  barely got that sucker to fit in the back of the jeep with the goalie gear.

their ten year old chocolate lab played shadow and nose all weekend, eating most of my pizza crusts and apple cores and other doggie things.  he finally got away from me this morning, escaping for an hour of roaming the cowfields, accumulating the expected odors.  big old lovable thing.  kathy cleaned him up.  my thought was just to hose him down.  this is why i only have plants.

had a lot of grandfather clock assisted dreams (“...bong...bong...bong...”).  most notable was when i accidentally invented (quantum) reality in magic lab.  which was sort of like the egg laying itself.

and so here i sit, sipping on a rich stout from northern michigan, contemplating one navel or the other.