January 2007

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• General, Music

  Out of the Blue

  01.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m feeling unsafely optimistic.  If I were bi-polar I would guess I was entering a manic phase.  Instead I’ll attribute the mood to currently listening to Ash’s Meltdown, which surely deserves the credit. There’s also the circumstance that last week we had our triennial snowstorm.  Several inches fell, the city endured (though with the normal […]

• General

  Bad things happening to good me

  01.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday we finished putting together an armoire.  As I said two weeks ago, after the first, abortive, attempt to assemble this devil (attempt frustrated because of crappily-rendered diagrams that caused me to ruin a dozen vital dowels that needed to be re-ordered), while wiping the blood and sweat from my brow, if Mrs wants any […]

• General

  To Do

  01.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Confession: Since the beginning of the year I have been organizing my day using the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007.  Other evidence of anorakness: my iPod and cell phone both have names based on artificial intelligences from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels, and the icon for the hard drive on my iBook is […]

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