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Archive for March 25th, 2008

Once upon a weekend — Quicksand

You know what sounds fun if you’ve never owned a truck in your life and you suddenly have one?
Driving on the beach.
You know what you shouldn’t do if you’ve never owned a truck in your life?
Drive on the beach.
Thankfully, a guy in a little four-wheel drive truck came by and pulled us out. My [...]

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DAY TWO — We went out to Westport to see the Pacific Ocean on Friday. We climbed up on driftwood and wandered on the jetty. The weather was pretty decent.
There were lots of people out and the sand was very soggy. We threw rocks and pondered the edge of the world. Here are some pictures.
  

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Time for a little catching up — more by topic than chronology. But the weekend got off to a rough start, to put things mildly.
My loyal, trustworthy ‘66 Tempest died on the way out of town to pick up Liz, so my brother screamed over from Fort Lewis and I was able to pick her [...]

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Spokane natives stabbed repeatedly

Doctor says brothers left “permanently disfigured.”

For those of you who don’t know, my brother and I got Irish harp tattoos a couple weeks ago. They each have banners with quote fragments.
Mine: (left wrist) by James Joyce says, “Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither [...]

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Court quotes IV

With the coming of spring comes stupid sentences and random justice — an eye for an eye, a sparkly hat for a sparkly hat.
“Defense counsel just asked me, ‘Do we have a trial tomorrow?’ ” - Lawyer to another.
“He might as well be a potted plant.” - Lawyer about another.
“Why were you choking this guy?” - [...]

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Happy birthday Dad!

Tell Savannaugh I said hello.

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