September 17th, 2004, 9:07pm

Ok, a real quick update, cause I'm always *really* short on Internet time, not to mention computer time. (I have previously composed most of my updates off-line and then posted them when I had a chance to get on-line.)

My (our) new phone# is 360-592-5089. At the moment we don't have an answering service, so you just have to let it ring & ring, and if we can hear it, we'll come a 'runnin. The most likely two times to find us near the phone are 9:30am - 10:30am, and after 6pm, tho we're often around at other times so whatever. :)

I've been really wanting to get time to write a decent update, or any update for that matter, but it's been difficult. There are a number of things that I'd like to go on about at length, but only a couple that I'm willing to touch on now, since I know that I don't have long to write on this occasion.

The first is a short bit that I came across while reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

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One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to onself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.

- from the Notebooks of Mr. Ibis
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The second thing is to relate an idea that came up during a conversation between my dad & I yesterday, where he was saying how much he was enjoying having the time to hang out and be in my company. I was a little surprised by that, and said so, explaining that lately I have felt myself to be "about as tolerant as a brick... coming through your window." Since then we've had a couple interesting follow-up conversations about that idea... anyway, I found that amusing and wanted to share it.

Ok, well that's it for time, gotta go! Love, peace, all that good stuff to all of you...

dharma