go'geous day today. amazing. perfectly blue sky, full sun, 75-ish degrees. (we got one day of no rain between may 3 and may 28. welcome to central new york.) anible and i went to taughannock falls, a favorite park among the locals. it's got three sections: one for the gorge trail (inland) and one each for the northern and southern halves of the peninsula (split by a river). anible and i tend to favor the north shore, because there's a better view and it's not (usually) as packed with obnoxious people. (except for the time we arrived right in the middle of a sorority beer bash. that was exciting. *cough*) no food stand, you know. so anyway! found a picnic table right on the water (well, obviously, not literally on the water, per se--yeshua was unable to join us in bodily form. more along the lines of six inches back from...) and skipped stones for a while. i was a none-too-pathetic stone skipper in my day. so much fun to surprise anible with these things. *grin grin*
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there was an unbelievable amount of crap sitting on this beach. i should have taken pictures. it was vile. used water bottles, misshapen plastic of unknown origin, bottle caps, dead balloons--ridiculous. people. boaters. you're not stupid people, so this shouldn't need repetition: when you throw your junk off your boat into your lake of choice *drumroll* it washes up on shore. bring a trash bag with you, for pete's sake, they're really not that hard to use.</rant>
anible discovered the saxophoning crayfish (as yet unnamed) while we were stone-skipping. had to get a few pictures--really, how often do you find that kind of talent in a crustacean?
in other news, i discovered the joys of fantasy stock markets yesterday. started with b$500, now worth about b$420,000. and i don't even know what i'm doing. (check out my profile, there's a link in the top box.) lots o' fun for the moment, i'm still waiting for the novelty to wear off. makes me wonder what kind of effect bloggers have had on the real stock exchange, actually. i really know absolutely nada about it--is it possible to zip in, buy a few thousand really cheap shares, watch them go up 30 cents, and then sell the buggers off?
you know what'd be a great idea for a poll? (if one was in the habit of polling?) 'hangnail handling: clip, bite, or file?'