Pennies Flat (Quick Snap) & Misc (Enduring Freedom)

Howdy Y'all, welcome to the Springtime. So #27 (flatten pennies on the track) is complete. i've been flattening pennies and dimes on the track around East 7th Street. They are pretty good looking flattened, retaining lil bits of the image, and made long and oval. They make good guitar pics too. If you want one, write me (address below).
Also, i'd like to mention the plethora of list items in various stages of completion. 14 (1000 haiku), 19 (grow more food), 23 (be single), 35 (short stories) and many others are coming along slowly but surely. Don't think just b/c it ain't crossed out that i ain't doing it, right now; i am. Superduper.

Seattle, WA - Nehalem, OR

Welcome Home Y'all. i've returned from crossing off number three (3. go to the Pacific Northwest). My heart is full of joy (beating strong and loud) to have seen so many loved ones. Thanks to everybody who put me up, filled me up, held me close, jammed me out, took me in, and/or otherwise made my trip a blast. i will post photos when i figure out how (its so easy, this web-logging). i've returned to Austin with 150 more pounds of things/stuff, where to put it...

Nabbed a Dove

Today i went hiking. Climbing thru a brushy tree, my legs suspended in its branches, i found, btwn my hands no less, a dove. So i nabbed it (#13). i got photo documentation too (no this photo here tho). To tell you the truth, it was kind of a let down. Nabbing birds should be very difficult, requiring tact, stealth, and trickery; instead of those it was just a docile lil dove sitting scared in the scrub near the creek. None the less, i nabbed a bird.

Pacific Northwest United States of America

Howdy Y'all. Pretty soon herrr i'm a-gonna cross off number three (go to the Pacific Northwest) on my list. i booked airline passage for the morning of February 21st from Austin to Seattle/Tacoma. Thanks to my folks, who got me the tickets for Christmas, i will be watching my sunsets over the biggest thing on Earth (the Pacific Ocean).
The plan is: spend a week or so in Seattle, see old friends, new-ish cousin, family, music (hear), and rain. Then go camping on the Olympic Peninsula (who wants to come along?), then head to Capital City (Olympia) and see the bronze wheat and artesian well and friends & friends. From therrr i'll head to the Oregon Coast (Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler) to see more friends (a theme developing), reunite with my old band Mallet, climb Neah Kahnie and recollect my left-overs from Annie's mom's house. Then fly outta Portland back to Austin on the 3rd of March.
Got all that? So whats going on?

p.s. Some more folks (y'all) oughta make these 101 Lists and put 'em on the internet. C'mon, you know you're interested. Start the list today!

Pecan Pralines and Letters to Send/Receive

Dear Y'alls. So after fighting the flu for a week & recovering for another week, i've finally crossed something off the list "make pecan pralines." Who ever invented the machine that breaks pecans into big halves and pieces deserves her/his incredible wealth and glory. It took 2+ hours to break a pitcher full of pecans, which yielded 3 cups of "meat". The rest was easy, just lots & lots of sugar, real hot. The attached photo is not my pralines; i am working on a camera to document these list things. But mine were similar, only gooey on bottom.

The other part of the weblog post is letters. #37 is have more pen pals, & altho i now have more pen pals than any other time in my life, i'd like even more. So send me a letter first.

Grant Matthew Francis Cross
1118A Linden Street
Austin, Texas 78702-3045

i promise to write you back. i might even enclose a short story (#35), some haiku (#14), or a pieta (#53). Write about whatever you like. We could have a themed correspondence, or just a "fourth period is so boring. Well, i guess i have nothing to write. Do you like Kevin? See you after class. i have nothing to write. Your friend, Belinda!" type note passing thru the mail. So bring the mail. Fill the bag/box!

Video Number One

Witness the wonder that is the internet. Here is a video of me and Ryan B. smashing up Miryam's boombox.

weblog kickoff

get with it. Here is post number one of my weblog for my 101 things to do. You oughta make a weblog too; first, make a list of one hundred and one things you wanna do. Word? Word.
i will not slash up my list at #1, i have successfully completed (and e-posted) my list. Yes! Watch my weblog explode!

Kick'd off (welcome)!

i didn't complete any "to-do's", but i did send an email out the the universe notifying friends and family of this weblog. In case you're confused, this weblog is documenting the completing of the list at right, 101 things to do in 1001 days. In Spanish "to do" is the same as "to make", hacer. i worked on a comic book for MLK Day with my roommates but we had trouble making topical comics (b/c it was grey and drizzly cold out) and never "published". Thanks for reading?