kitchen living room

kitchen living room, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i seriously love the wallpaper

toilet

toilet, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

here's the one and only toilet in my new house.

i met the carpenter who is fixing it, and he was very nice and tidy and competent and said it should be done in a few days.

the healthy hippie

hop on over to healthyhippie.net for a real good time.

they are incredibly cool people and dish out all kinds of tips on what to eat and how to make it, great new music and show reviews, how to fix and build your house, how to care for your furry friends, MANTRAS to help you through your daily quagmire, just all around good info.

you can sign up for the free email newsletter, and you can subscribe to their bitchin new magazine (100% recycled, with plant-based ink) coming out this spring.

here's the healthy hippie taraleigh interviewing mike rempel from the band lotus about how he stays healthy on the road.



solar power turns her ON!

bread eating champion

bread eating champion, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i eat bread faster than you

bodybuilding & physics

bodybuilding & physics, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

here's a nice thing jim reilly made for me in physics class 15 years ago. i had just started throwing the shot put for the track team. today is his birthday.

rainbow wheel-o

original wheelo

nacholden

nacholden, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

they like experimenting with peanut butter

if I had an air-o-plane i still couldnt make it on time

i am making soup for the first time. i put vegetable broth & a bunch of cut up vegetables and spices in the crock pot on low this morning.

i am going tomorrow afternoon to pick up the keys to my new place. it is half the size of this place, i am going to measure to see what will fit. it is fenced on one side, i might try to fence the other three. it doesn't have a washer or dryer, i might get a compact washer & clothesline for summer at least.

i am not moving my furniture for a couple weeks, i have both places til the end of april, i can't believe it's been over a year since i moved to asheville, i'm very glad i did.

i have been doing a lot of research and development and experimenting with the peanut butter jar safes, finally getting down to a set process and procedure and tools and method that are the easiest and make the best hidden jar safes most efficiently. it's still an art not a science yet. i thought of a slogan - your safe is secret with me.
here's the laboratory under the watchful eye of a city councilman who thinks the place smells like an amsterdam hash bar.

frosty beer man

our old friend helps your beers stay cold while you make fun of duke, michigan, the yankees, the cowboys, and jeff gordon. they also have the brilliant 'krzyzewski ain't krzyzt' shirt.



frosty beer man

go tar heels!

play count today

bambivalent

if you can't say something nice say something nice about something else

WHY DO THIS?!?!

i spackled sausages to a hostel door in sydney australia.

it was july 2000 (australian winter), i was there for 5 weeks to study health law & professional responsibility with about 30 other american law students.

it was sausage links from the dining room attached with vegemite & it was small & tasteful and said "EXTRAORDINARY" (any photos have been tragically lost in a disposable camera neglect accident.)

the room's occupant sent an email to everybody in the group the next day titled 'petty vandals,' and it was extraordinary, recounting when the maid, emerelda, found it, thinking it was human fecal matter, yelled at him: "WHY DO THIS?!?!"

the reason we did this was the room's occupant was perceived to be haughty & pretentious, and took himself extremely seriously, not unlike many law students, using 50 cent words such as 'extraordinary' during class for no reason. and rather than be caring compassionate people and ignore this, his door was hit.

8 years later i'm not really that sorry. is this a character flaw? righteousness? playground bullying? the maid had to clean the same amount as wiping a plate, and while in reality it only caused him to take himself more seriously, it made sense at the time. and i'm pretty sure pretentiousness is a force worth fighting.