‘kay, so, my LiveStrong bracelet, which I have been wearing every day for sooooooo many months broke today. It is weak, and it broke.

Now I ask myself, “Self, what does this mean?”

And I ask myself because just yesterday I was speaking with Mark about how I do not know how long I should keep it on, or even contemplate taking it off.

Did it self-destruct over my uncertainty? Did I cause it to question it’s very reason for existence? Or, is it simply a chintzy piece of plastic made by some undernourished, hapless child laborer in China that wasn’t meant to last more than these eight or nine months???

This is shall continue to contemplate as I go ball myself up in flannel on the couch as I watch the snow fall outside…

to be continued….

or not…

I feel like i just lost a family member:

Hunter S. Thompson, the author who pioneered “gonzo” journalism and became an anti-establishment icon with his 1972 book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself at his home outside Aspen, Colorado, Sunday night, police said. He was 67.

In a statement released to the Aspen Daily News, Thompson’s son, Juan, confirmed that the writer had taken his own life.”On February 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado.

“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” — Thompson’s most famous work — detailed the drug-and-alcohol-fueled journey his alter-ego (Raoul Duke) and a Samoan attorney undertook while in Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race. The book’s biting wit and stream-of-consciousness ramblings — which Thompson would later term “gonzo journalism,” because it was deliberately slanted — made him a counter-culture celebrity in the ’70s, and his style was introduced to another generation of fans in 1998, when “Fear and Loathing” hit the big screen, starring Johnny Depp as Duke. (Bill Murray had tackled Thompson’s life and work 18 years earlier in 1980’s “Where the Buffalo Roam,” based on a collection of the author’s work.)

Thompson’s other works include “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72,” a collection of articles he’d written for Rolling Stone magazine while covering Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign in 1972; and “Hell’s Angels,” his book chronicling the year he spent with the notorious California motorcycle gang.

This is a super cool Belgian restaurant in London — Belgo. Waiters wear these hot little monk-esque outfits, and there’s a big Eddy Mercx poster above, at the bar.

The hills of Lockerbie.

Tundergarth Mains.

They do it much better. 

But, go to another culture, learn something cultural, right? Like curling! (The windows above are the pub!)

I can’t imagine living in something like this
when it was still intact. The details blow you
away — If I were rich I’d take something
like this (structurally sound one, of course)
and fix it up… sooo cool. and keep dogs, and
make them sleep by the fire! he he!

Unfortunately, many decided the solution
was to take off the roofs. Thus, the end
result for many old estates is ruin.

There’s so much history there. Years ago the government taxed homeowners based on the number of roofs.