That’s what happened at our house last night, no joke. We hosted a quartet of couchsurfers yesterday. In their request they said they understood if we could only host a couple of them, but we assured them we had plenty of room for all four. When they arrived, we all introduced ourselves: Max (male) from Germany, Sara (female) from Spain, and Misha and Beata (both female) from the Czech Republic. We told them again what their sleeping options were, and after what appeared to be some panicky internal deliberations, Sara and Beata elected to bunk in the upstairs queen bed…
I was driving home from work today through the Broadmoor area, which is the nicest part of town. Construction on my exit on the Interstate was finally completed, but then construction started on Highway 24 through the city. So it’s still much more pleasant (and possibly faster) to drive through the Broadmoor. I took a right on 3rd to take my shortcut over to Cresta and noticed a critter in someone’s front yard. At first I thought, “Why would that giant black dog be wandering around loose?” And then I realized it was not a dog. The little bear turned…
The boss let us go home early today. She likes to do that on Fridays before holiday weekends. Berck was still busy at work, so I stopped by the grocery on the way home to pick up mushrooms and peppers. Berck complains that he can’t cook ANYTHING if he doesn’t have mushrooms or peppers handy, so I try to have some in the fridge each weekend. Then I toss them in the garbage in a week when they’ve gone bad. Traffic was nuts, even at 2:00 p.m., so I decided to stop at the King Soopers on Uintah. As I…
I spent much of Sunday cutting down dead aspens. I wore shorts and boat shoes while operating a chainsaw which I know to be a bad idea. Fortunately, my chainsaw is small and underpowered, but I have to wonder if I’m actually a rational person. I wear a full suit, gloves and helmet while riding a motorcycle, but shorts while operating a chainsaw. Which is more risky? Is my behavior consistent? I don’t even know! I was completely sore for two days later. It’s important that when you live a sedentary lifestyle that you commit to it fully, otherwise things…
The manager of one of the teams in Bangalore has insisted on showing us around this weekend. Yesterday, we went to the Veerabhadra Temple. I’m not sure what I imagined, but it didn’t really fit any idea of “temple” I had in my head. I don’t understand any religion from a rational basis, but Judaism, Christianity and Islam have a common, familiar structure that I can understand to be comforting for some. Paganism is far removed but has, for me, a coherent literary structure and while I’ve never encountered contemporaneous practice, historical practice seems logical. Hinduism, from my very first…