J-town Day one

-there is no such thing as gramer or spelling this post (or maybe week)

I started off the day forgetting my cell phone (so don't try to text me thobius). After that hickup I got out with out much problem. The flight felt really quick, as I got off the plane in Anc I didn't even have time to think "wow I feel like I was here recently" the futility of yesterdays driving didn't even have time to register as my Juneau flight was on its final boarding call after a quick bathroom stop. I got in about 10:30. It was all socked in and rainy as it always is when i get home. kinda depressing but thats Juneau.

I hung out with my Daddy and Brown Doggie. He's getting pretty thin up top these days and she's looking more like a chubby short legged grizzly bear than a lab, quite the polar opposite of the leggy moose dog the Humphreys have.

I showed him my iPod which he said I should give him. I ate lunch there and read an architecture book called "the not so big house" It had an interesting thesis. The idea is that most big houses with huge rooms are meant to impress and entertain but not to live in. Who wants to hang out in a big open room with super clean couches. The authors, a husband/wife team or architects did some research and totaled up how much time people spend and in what room. doesn't it makes sense to make the biggest room where people spend the most time, with family or socially. The fact is that the beating heart of a house, where all the action happens is the kitchen. If you entertain guests, the people want to be with you in the kitchen. not stuffed into a "socialization room" where the woman of the house enters with the food having removed her apron and wiped the sweat off her brow as she left the kitchen.

It also talked about putting the kitchen in a central location and using alcoves and window seats to create small more private comfortable areas. I had a section on how the room is an artificial construct and a lot of times walls between "living/family/den" rooms just make it so no one wants to go there. then there was the section on the quiet place. It suggested decorating this area differently that the rest of your house just to add some contrast. The only problem I see is that the houses are all really pretty and delicate. If I'm gonna be the big daddy and have a mighty horde (and beautiful daughters) I'm gonna need to make the thing a little more bomb proof. Anyway yeah, i'm looking forward to building a house with a family in mind. whether I have one or not after school is OVER!

If i sound a little distracted... I am. Jordan and I are going to bike the Herbert glacier trail tonight after I finish my coffee. Its the trail that took us all day to hike last time we did it. thats the story with the post holing and walking on the aged lightly frozen cross country ski trail that was only six inches wide. any way... yeah we're gonna scream up and down the thing on mountain bikes like a couple of wild banchee's with head lamps and a 40 cal.

Captain Aaroneous of the pirate ship Mandible... signing out.