The Taco Blog Dos

after 18,300ish miles, 36 states, 6 plus months, and surprisingly few trips to taco bell (you must check out heathers adventures there), i am back in seattle.  and it feels good.  probably helps that summer is incredible here, but really, its nice to be home.  well, back in brooke and britten's home anyway.  next order of business is to find a place to rent with fedje.   we are looking for a house over in seattle that will take a dog and is not terribly far from highways, so no ballard or anything, since rachel will still be commuting to issaquah.  so, if you know anything, speak up :)

heading out tomorrow to go to omaha.  hadnt really considered it a part of my path when i was originally thinking about it, but then i wasnt thinking rice was going to the college world series.  i probably should have since our baseball team pretty much kicks ass.  and since we are one game away from the championship series, it seemed like a good excursion before heading up to south dakota with marisa.  we are gonna try and catch our game on wednesday against the winner of osu and miami.  im sorta cheering for miami since thats where my dad went and then i can have my seminal son beats father moment when rice beats miami to get to the finals.  i dont think we will hang around for the finals though, since marisa really wants to get up to south dakota.  and i dont really want to just hang out in omaha for an extra 3 or 4 days waiting for a few baseball games.

i hit 50 movies for the year the other day watching the omen.  im ahead of schedule for the year since ill probably see a few more this month, but not too many since ive been trying to watch all the world cup games.  joga bonito.  its been a great cup so far.   and im looking forward to many more games.  and i wont say anything in particular about them since i know some people are tivoing them and dont want to know in advance.

 

best song ever : crazy by gnarls barkley.   marisa and i have been listening to it on repeat for days now.  its the only song that plays and we still dance to it.  neither of us have tired of it.  im a song repeater, doesnt bother me to hear a song i like over and over and over and over again.  thankfully, marisa is good with it too :)

 

struggling thru baudolino by umberto eco.  i feel like i should like it, and i read a chapter or two every few days, but it just isnt coming together for me.  i have read other stuff of his and really liked it so im disappointed.  i do like the way eco uses language though.  very cool turns of phrase and word creation, which i assume he does in italian and then is faithfully translated into english.   the story just isnt gripping me though.   oh well, hopefully the next random book i draw out of the trunk will be a quicker read or more captivating.

 

off to watch france v. switzerland, then brazil v. doesnt matter.   actually its croatia.   and then im mulching for marisa's advisor.  and not becasue i burned her daughters hand.  its pretty fun to do yard work in beautiful weather.