March 28, 2009 at 830pm is Earth Hour.  Turn off your lights for 60 minutes.  Enjoy an hour in the dark, doing whatever feels right.  I, for one, will use my time wisely by trying to convince Janie to take off her shirt. Let’s meet back here and discuss how it went.  Prize for the best (true) story.

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Name our (male) dog Angel
Change my name to Samantha so people would refer to me as Sam, like Alyssa Milano’s character on Who’s The Boss
Become a neurosurgeon
Go to Stanford University
Play on the USA Women’s World Cup soccer team
Have a job that involved carrying a brief case and stamping things
Win that newspaper recycling contest
Live in an apartment above a store
Skip church and sit in the Sears parking lot eating Winchell’s donuts
Smoke a cigarette
Drink a beer
Wear a pigtail on the side of my head, like Chrissy from Three’s Company
Visit Africa, especially Tanzania …

I apologize for using the f-word when talking to you via text message the other day.
I won’t be talked to like that!
I already said I was sorry.
Fuck you!

Last week I was searching online for local buildings that had been abandoned so I could take some photos.  I didn’t find much referenced in Seattle, as most old buildings have been torn down for condominiums that no one can afford to move in to.  While in the middle of this search and another unrelated search for information on Western State Hospital, one of two state-owned psychiatric hospitals and the largest psychiatric facility wet of the Mississippi, I came across some information on another psychiatric …