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Lin & Lenny's Wedding

Here's a few shots of Lin & Lenny's wedding from this weekend.  Congradulations you two!  Note that the images are in reverse order (i.e. to see the bride on the alter you'll need to start on the last page of photos):

Lin & Lenny's Wedding

Goodwill

Tenderloin Goodwill

Yesterday we went to the tenderloin so Thien could pickup a French book from the European book store thats on Larkin and Geary.  Afterward we stopped by a Vietnamese sandwich shop (the city has officially named the area  along Larkin 'St. Little Saigon') and got some lunch.  I had the vegetarian special which, after I ate, I noticed several bits that seemed very pork-like in nature.  I'm sure it was pork substitute...

We got back to our parking spot when Thien spied a Goodwill across the street.  "We still have 10min on the meter!" she said motioning toward the goodwill store.  Having no desire to spend even 10 minutes of a warm sunny Saturday afternoon under the cold stale florescents of the goodwill store, I stayed outside with my camera and took a few shots of the buildings across the street.

Fifteen minutes later and still waiting a guy crossed the street and stopped just before the entrance.  Moderately built and wearing a red tank top he looked ready to start a pickup game of basketball or chug some beer.

Him: "That your camera?"
Me: "Yah"
Him: "Are you a photographer?"
Me: "Uh, no, not really."
Him: "Take a picture of this"

The guy began flexing his biscep at me.

Him: "Yah?  Take a picture of this"
Me: "Um, I'm out of film, sorry"

He seemed to accept this and dissappeared into the Goodwill.

A minute later Thien emerged from the store beaming;  "Look!  I got this purse for $2!"  Seems everyone's got something to show off.

QotD: Collector's Item

What do you collect?

I guess because my tag-line is "I collect things..." I should answer this.  I collect things I consider 'useful'.  Therefore, I do not collect action figures, or baseball cards or pez dispensers.  However I freely admit that my definition of useful may often beg the question "When?"

I collect computer components that I might need someday.  I save twist-ties in a container in my kitchen for when I need a bag closed or a cord secured.  I collect light bulbs of various wattages, batteries of various cellage and all those little hex wrenches that come with Ikea furniture.

I collect the lumpy power plugs (wall warts), with thin plug ends, with fat plug ends and hollow plug ends.  I have every promotional pen and pencil I've ever received.  I have several varieties of paper.  I have a lot of tape.

I have all the owner's manuals for every product I've ever purchased, including my rice-maker (you never know).  I have at least 3 kinds of rice.

I have change from at least 6 different countries totalling over $40 US.

I have two or three bottles of expired cat medicine.

I collect the minutiae of daily life because I know someday, I will need that little plastic cracker jack magnifying glass to read the treasure map on the back of the perfectly good picture frame I found on the street, and I will be as rich as kings.

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QotD: Middle Name

What's your middle name?  Is there a story or history behind it?

My middle name is Winter.  I guess the story is that I was born in the dead of a cold Milwaukee winter.  The day of my delivery was cold, icy and windy, making it treacherous to be outside much less racing to the hospital.  So they decided to give me a fitting middle name.  That and my parents were hippies.

Speaking of which, my name, had I been a girl, would have been Dulcet Sunshine Webb.  Maybe if I had been a girl, that winter in Milwaukee would have had an unseasonally warm and bright day before cooling back to a cold white sleep.