*sigh*

Ganked from an LJ-free friend on FB:

"As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead." - HP Lovecraft to C.L. Moore (August 1936)

Good Long Day

Puttered about this morning, then met up w/darthsunshine and several others for a delightful picnic in Laurelhurst Park. A couple of storms're due here tonight/tomorrow, so this was really a great last blast of Summer sunshine (w/9 or so different types of good cheese, lotsa fresh fruit, chix salad of tastiness, &c.) Afterward, I took Ferris Bueller's Day Off over chez jaylake and we gave the_child her first viewing of't. Much giggling and guffawing was had by all. After that, the_child chose Hanna for us all to watch. 'Twas really quite good. Not sure how I managed to miss even hearing 'bout it when it came out a few months back.

Have realized I spaced on posting the link to pics from last Tuesday's hike in Forest Park (ATC # 16). delerium3 & I will finish up the final 8 miles on Fri & Sat (09/30-10/01/11). It's gonna feel SO good to have that all done.

Tomorrow will be tough, but I'll get through it, and then'll be in better position to get on w/my life and create my future as I see fit w/out waiting around any longer.