how i spent my weekend

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Originally uploaded by green eyed so and so.

i meant to carry a flag or something, but i was drafted into taking pictures. (for which i was completely unprepared. took pictures Friday, spent Saturday and Sunday cursing my lack of skills and prep for shooting inside in dim light, etc etc etc.)

anyway, the new hotel at the Tulalip Casino is all full of luck and stuff. Northern and Southern lions (eight total), the tea table, the kung fu bus, and more at flickr.

how i spent my weekend

DSC_0217
Originally uploaded by green eyed so and so.

i meant to carry a flag or something, but i was drafted into taking pictures. (for which i was completely unprepared. took pictures Friday, spent Saturday and Sunday cursing my lack of skills and prep for shooting inside in dim light, etc etc etc.)

anyway, the new hotel at the Tulalip Casino is all full of luck and stuff. Northern and Southern lions (eight total), the tea table, the kung fu bus, and more at flickr.

abibliophobia

dear internets:
i am going on a two-week overseas trip with one carryon. so far, no worries about paring down clothes and gadgets and leaving room to spare for buying things.

but what about the books? i MUST read on the airplane. (there will be no laptop/pda/smartphone and my eyes tire out on ebooks anyway.) suck it up and carry a stack of paperbacks there and back again? take used ones and abandon as i finish reading? take enough for the trip over and trust that i will find english-language stuff to read on the way home? load the sansa with audiobooks and podcasts?

i'm seriously considering the abandon-as-i-finish method. i can't really use C as a load balancer because i read 2-3 times faster than he does. any suggestions on nice ways to leave books behind that might make someone happy?

experience, suggestions, insight appreciated.

abibliophobia

dear internets:
i am going on a two-week overseas trip with one carryon. so far, no worries about paring down clothes and gadgets and leaving room to spare for buying things.

but what about the books? i MUST read on the airplane. (there will be no laptop/pda/smartphone and my eyes tire out on ebooks anyway.) suck it up and carry a stack of paperbacks there and back again? take used ones and abandon as i finish reading? take enough for the trip over and trust that i will find english-language stuff to read on the way home? load the sansa with audiobooks and podcasts?

i'm seriously considering the abandon-as-i-finish method. i can't really use C as a load balancer because i read 2-3 times faster than he does. any suggestions on nice ways to leave books behind that might make someone happy?

experience, suggestions, insight appreciated.