Chicago 2015

Business traveling is the worst form of traveling. I wouldn't even call it traveling,  that is an insult to the concept. 

But I knew this trip wouldn't be too bad when I saw this sign getting off the subway.  one of my few favorite places to shop: 

Just one block from the hotel. 

Grand opening

i give this place six months.  a year tops. 

Sad pad

The most morose and saddest of sad faces is notepad.

Fear and loathing in Waikiki

We were somewhere on the edge of honolulu when the drugs began to take hold. 

Poor dead kitty

Bye lura

Glassy two to four.  Warm Hawaii evening.

Mmm... sweet creamy delicious schaudendraud

Yes! Die, bubbies!

Rat graffiti

i hate myself

beggar alms

i took this picture at the 2012 kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India.  this monk was passing out small denomination rupee coins to these beggars who weren't really allowed inside the walls of the temple complex.   i gave nothing to them, though i was far richer than most people there.

some men just want to watch cute girls drown.

diamond head on fire.  rain.  death star moon.

Apparently, I am not a white knight in shining armor.  I don't care how cute you are, I'm more inclined to watch you get hurt and/or drown then bother to help you. 

Stormy but fun Chinas

global warming labor day weekend

labor day weekend: hurricane to the east, global warming humidity, global warming calm, haze, 3-5 surf, five guys out, glass, dead sailor, guy screaming for Eric, 

justin townes earle and sunset and home.

why can't her boyfriend surf?

Seal lady

Surfing in the bay.  Didn't realize the lady taking pictures and staring at coastline shrubbery was actually looking at a monk seal.  She sat on the rocks for two hours at least starting at this blob barely distinguishable from the rock it was laying on. 

She was so happy and content to just be near this thing.  The physical proximity to this object was enough to bring her joy.  Just starting at it from a distance and taking pictures. Physical proximity to the object.  A few pictures.  So content. 

I don't even know how she knew it was there, in that hidden cove.  How did she find it? How did she find her joy?  

Major life milestones: 80085

Birth, graduation, marriage, first child, retirement, death... driving your car until it says boobs.

I LOOOOOOVE paying taxes!

Power lines sparked and popped and flamed and exploded then darkness.  no light. then blue lights and red lights of emergency response vehicles.  Then yellow lights of electric company vehicle.  then soft white lights of my bedroom lights returning.  Door to door, not even 45 minutes.  Taxes!

Airport bars

Gotta love them.  Not a big fan of getting drunk On long flights,  but regional flights?  Nothing better.

Bedtime

Bed shopping again.  This time for an exchange.  choosing a bed gives me hives. Nothing is  worse for a  stressful, anxious,  neurotic, second guessing,  indecisive, cheap-ass insomniac like myself. 

Pinky up

Goodbye OBB class of 2015.  fat fat 8

valar morghulis

Let not the beauty of the world deceive.  Or, enjoy it while you can.  Whatever. 

Another day at the office

Lahaina maui

"We live in a vacation"

Lazy man pho

Instant noodles with leftover basil and sprouts from actual pho take out, plus random roast chicken. 

Old Time Me

the secret to good photos is sepia tones.  Observe: