i took a side photo of one of our pies going out tonight, with the crazy intention of posting the photo, but my computer crashed a week ago and along with it my current ability to post photos…
tonight i talked at length with a young couple traveling across the country, collecting stories and public speaking about the concepts: fortitude and optimism. he said he would be blogging about it at gotoptimism.com but i have yet to confirm that site.

i’ve got my head in the clouds these days i must admit. frankly, i hardly even care that my practically brand new computer is shot… hopefully, the geniuses over there at MAC will let me start this whole process over. we’ll see.

more to come…

there are photos on this kid’s computer after all!

people ask me lately, “how ya doin?” and it seems like i keep answering, “better than ever.”
i feel like i am sailing away. i’ve been on a sailboat once, with some friends who lived on that old wooden boat, in alaska. the thing had canvas yellow sails, and i saw a huge whale surface just a few feet from the boat…. and we sailed to a remote hot springs, only accessible by boat. we anchored out a few hundred yards and canoed in to the bay…

anyway, i don’t remember feeling much better than those sacred sailing days… and that’s just about how i feel nowadays… like i am the luckiest man in the world, like i have been given an awesome old wooden canvas driven vessel. the open sea. the big sky. the wonder.

Pinewood Derby from Strummer on Vimeo.

3rd annual long lake pinewood derby. watch the video to see what it was like. danny’s car, oh i mean strummer’s car, won 1st place in the adult division.
silas’s car won second place in the ‘big kid” divison.

click on this link to read what i found to be a great article. i had first read an article about an iraqi veteran who was fired for coming out of the closet.
sometimes i am shocked at the time it takes for needed change. still seems strange that folks are rallying against gays.

work was extremely difficult today. i did get to cook a few pies but mostly i just used my brain until it hurt. i am constantly amazed at how much i have to do that is critical to running a restaurant that has nothing to do with actually serving or cooking food. those are the best parts, the serving and cooking.

below is a picture of Bad-O-Mime as a normal guy. please click here to see Bad-O.