Friday, August 18, 2006

the only store you'll ever need

Today Tina and I had two new tires put on the car, then Tina went to the optometrist, then we went and bought a hairdryer with a really cool diffuser on it, and then we got our pictures developed. The best part is, we did all of that at one store. Costco is ridiculous. It's amazing. It's the only place I know of where you can by a crib and a coffin, or where you buy enough alcohol for a ship of sailors and a car. Us Americans can get season 2 of Lost, a high-def DVD recorder to watch it on and record season 3, a frickin' huge 65" high def plasma flat screen TV to watch it on, a nice leather couch to sit on to watch the entire season. Then after starring at a plasma screen for all 1056 minutes of season 2, you can buy this nice luxury cherry casket to lay your body in.

I could have gone on for longer, but I'm supposed to go to bed. I seriously wanted to get something from every category on the website.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

communion


I love that God decided to use bread and wine as a part of a communion. I'm going to go have some right now. Not for communion, but just because I love bread and wine.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Depth

Here I am at the Grand Canyon sporting a very attractive "shirt rag" to keep the heat off. It's all about depth here at the GC (that's what all the hip chaps call it, or so I uh...made up). I love the effect looking into a big whole has on the mind. I think it's most staggering because I rarely ever have so much space defined for me. I see freaking huge buildings and am totally impressed. I've seen the zoom-out at the end of Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark when they show the massive warehouse, and been shocked by the enormity of the space. I've looked out of an airplane window and seen hundreds of miles stretching out into a slight curve. But, only at the Grand Canyon am I still freaked out by the sheer amount of space. I had to continually look at it just to make sure of what I'm not quite sure. I don't think my mind could comprehend how much space I was trying to grasp. How many pennies? How much water? How many McDonald's PlayPen balls? How long would it take to fill it with trash? To find the answer to the last one go here. I want to go back and hike down to the bottom, we didn't get to do that this time. It's funny how many signs there are telling you not to try to hike down and back in the same day. My favorite was a poster that asked you if you could run a marathon, and then went into detail about the fate of a woman who could yet died trying to make the round trip. But come on, I've hiked, like, at least once this year, and only had to stop once going up Bishop's Peak, I'm sure I could make it.