August and September are shaping up to be a busy time. I've got my Dad's birthday, which just so happens to coincide with a beer festival in Vorstetten, the German village he lived in when he first moved to Germany. We've been talking about celebrating his birthday there, because it's his 60th, and it's been so long since most of us were over there that it's about time to go back. I was going to be over there for as long as possible, around the 16th August until the 3rd of September. Then I found out tht my High School reunion is going to happen the 17th-19th August. Already got the time off, so just for a laugh I decided I'm going to go to that. Don't exactly keep in touch with anyone from my year, but why the hell not? Now, my friend Clinton is getting married that Saturday. So I'll get to Eugene late Thursday, do whatever's going on for the reunion on Friday, head up north for Clint's nuptials, maybe back down for Sunday reunion shite, and then fly out of Portland to Frankfurt that Monday.

Here's the dilemma. I'm going to take some time while I'm over in Europe to do something for myself. I'm also going to try and get up to Salisbury, see the family. My Dad's birthday is the 26th August, a Sunday and I think the last day of the beer festival. Do I go up home beforehand, for two days, and then go somewhere else for a couple days after the birthday, getting back to Frankfurt on the 31st to fly back on the 1st, or do it the other way around? And where should I go? I love Prague, Salzburg, Florence, but I have friends in Romania or Ireland I haven't seen in years. Either way, back to Portland on the 1st September, more friends getting married on the 2nd, then back to Vegas for my third wedding in as many weeks.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm so lethargic about everything right now, that it'll be good to speed up. For a few weeks, at least, my glacier life will thaw a bit, move more like the Colorado river. Or like the glaciers are starting to cos of global warming. What happens when they're gone? How will we be able to explain an image like 'glacier speed?' It moves kinda big, white and frigid just doesn't sound so poetic. . .