I think this is a great program.

It's time again for the amazing First Friday in Downtown Olympia.

Stores, Galleries and Restaurants will have their doors open late again and host various events and invite the community downtown to mingle and experience downtown at night.

Highlight: einmaleins will have a Wine and Cheese reception and host GREEN DEPOT a new local green building company. They will have some of their great building componants on display and will be available to answer questions and share a few great insights about buidling a greener community and living a sustainable life.

Hope to see you there, 

mathias eichler

einmaleins 

Sustainable Weight Loss

Sunday January 20th, 6:30-8pm Fertile Ground Studio 311 9th Ave Se Olympia, WA 98501 (the little house located in the backyard)

We will discuss the top ten ways to adjust your food and lifestyle as a way to get balanced around digestive issues, overconsumption, cravings, exercise, primary food, and more. This class is limited to 15 students. To pre-register, write to summerbock@gmail.com

Sugar Blues Workshop

Monday January 28th, 6:30-8pm Fertile Ground Studio (the little house located in the backyard)

Learn how to reduce sugar cravings. Willpower and deprivation are not necessary to end cravings. What is your body really trying to tell you? You'll know after this workshop. This class limited to 15 students. To pre-register, write to summerbock@gmail.com

Cooking and Eating for Thyroid Health: The Basics of Cooking with Seaweed

Sunday February 10th, 6:30-8pm Fertile Ground Kitchen

Thyroid issues affect our metabolism, energy levels, and body temperature. Whether you've experienced thyroid disease, removal, or just low energy or weight gain, this class is for you. We will find simple ways to add thyroid supporting foods into the diet in tasty ways. This will be a gluten-free and dairy-free meal. This class is limited to 15 students. To pre-register, write to summerbock@gmail.com

More classes coming for Winter 2008!

The Olympian: Stryker vehicles restored to combat readiness

The vehicles traveled thousands of miles on patrol in desert conditions as insurgents shot at them or attempted to blow them up. Back home, protesters at the Port of Olympia attempted to barricade their return to Fort Lewis in November, leading to dozens of arrests.

I'm curious how the next shipment will play out. Obviously this batch will be returning to the place those protesting don't want to be.

Will it stop at protesting in the street?

Right now the tactic would appear to be to take convoy protection out of the picture through civil suit. It's also disappointing that the Department of Defense doesn't seem inclined to fund convoy protection.

I imagine that if the Department of Defense were to step up to the plate and say they would be willing to cover the cost of convoy protection - and any potential civil liability - we wouldn't have to wonder. It would promote stability in that everyone would be well aware that law enforcement would be out in full force with no questions asked.

Come and Celebrate 15 Years of Youth Empowerment and Environmental Action at the 8th Annual Winter Feast! Brought to you by the YMCA Earth Service Corps, the Winter Feast is a community vegetarian dinner with live music, presentations and performances, recycled art and a silent auction. Imagine a buffet spread of the best vegetarian dishes our local restaurants and farms have to offer all for a requested donation of $10-$30 sliding scale.

All proceeds will support youth empowerment and environmental action. Come and enjoy a fun filled evening with the YMCA Earth Service Corps.

The event will be held at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1515 Harrison Ave NW, Olympia, WA 98502.

Questions? Contact Carrie at yesc@ssymca.net or 357.6609 X117

I just discovered that the MoMA is posting videos on YouTube. Chuck Close, a native of our Pacific NW, speaks here about process and painting (primarily). I think he's a pretty interesting artist.

I'm submitting this for the folks at momsrising.org: Your help is needed this Friday morning at the capitol. Join us to to deliver fortune cookies, which are stuffed with messages for fully funded family leave to issue champion, Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown. We need your help delivering them to her, and to other state legislators. We'll bring the cookies to share, you bring your enthusiasm for the issue (and kids are more than welcome too!).

CAN YOU MEET US AT THE CAPITOL?

TIME & DATE: 9am, this Friday, January 18th for about 30 minutes.

LOCATION: Outside the Senate Majority Leader's Office (Senator Lisa Brown) in the Washington State Legislative Building (the building with the big dome), Room 307, in Olympia.

RSVP: Katie@momsrising.org

MomsRising.org was a part of the Washington Family Leave Coalition, a coalition of more than 50 organizations and businesses, which strongly advocated for this policy. The Coalition also includes the Economic Opportunity Institute and the Washington State Labor Council. MomsRising.org also reached out to small business owners in the state, and helped generate a letter supporting the law signed by 36 small business owners. "This effort is ongoing and support for family leave insurance is growing--both Washington families and businesses will be helped by the implementation of this law and we've heard from our members that this is a priority," says MomsRising Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner.

Coco's mom called Trish and will give us the opportunity to adopt her for the price of the cage.

We'd been birdsitting, and she'd been paying US $50 a month.

Hmmm. It was a question for the Radio 8 Ball.

1.15.08 “Will we be keeping Cocolina?” – Dressy Bessy “Electrified”

electrified

evolved

pure fiction

you're putting me on

you're putting me out

'cause you're six feet tall

your diction

it's off the wall

electrified

evolved

electrified

you're six feet tall

suspicion

dont push me down

dont write me off

'cause you're six feet tall

conviction

it's awful small

electrified

evolved

electrified

hey don't talk to me, you don't have to be, i don't want to meet someone

they don't take to me, they don't have to see, i dont wanna be someone else

get on after me, you don't have to involve the one, the something

ooh ooh ooh ooh

perfection

you're putting me on

don't pick me out

'cause you're six feet tall

your diction

it's off the wall

dont put me out