Dear All, There is no way I’m going to be updating this thing for at least another week. Another 30 will hit Quarter Past sometime today or tomorrow, but apart from that, I’m afraid it’ll stay dead until this whole packing/sending/moving /flying/unpacking/repacking process finishes up. Back soon, n. PS. I’ll leave you with my very [...]
Backspace. When we walked in, the barista was up on an A-frame next to the stage, tying prayer flags to a disco ball and humming the bass track to “You Are My Sunshine” as it loped along through the stereo. At first the flags just hung there, like a raggedy little sibling of Sputnik at [...]
After a brief visit, my parents have moved on towards Santa Cruz to visit Margaret, and I’m back to eating scrambled eggs balanced on gas-station bread at my desk. It’s a good thing I only eat like a king a few days out of the year, as it might otherwise get to my head and [...]
Portland experienced its first summer day of 2009 yesterday. It was blue and warm and perfect and absolutely everybody was outside and in a good mood. This is the upswing of having a whole population that suffers from severe depression for six months out of the year. When they emerge on the opposite side, those [...]
I’m not known for having outstanding taste when it comes to birthday gifts (recall, the watertight credit card holder, the box of crayola markets ((sans black)), the two bags of M&Ms duct taped together, etc…) but that might be changing. This year, picking up on a stray comment that Andrea probably regrets having ever uttered, [...]
Margaret pushed off yesterday afternoon on a train bound for Santa Cruz, leaving me without house-guests for the first time in three weeks. It has been a wonderful three weeks, mind you, but I must say, there is something to be said for occasionally basking in the silence of a solitary Saturday afternoon. My internal [...]
I’ve moved in to my new home. The sheets are borrowed and the walls plain, but that’s the way most of these things start out. Give it some time. It takes a week of fussing to arrange things properly, and a few more after that to figure out what to put on the wall. Today’s [...]
I woke up this morning to discover a worrisome quantity of ice INSIDE my bedroom window (pictured above) and a forecast which promised that Minneapolis “will feel like -30F all day!”. At first, this prompted what I assume is the normal human reaction to -30 degree weather: I opted to stay in bed. When I [...]
Normally when I don’t write anything for a long time, there have been several attempts made; my fingers poised above the keyboard, eyes closed, face tilted back, bathed in divine light, waiting to be struck with inspiration from above. Perhaps a quiet meditative hum to get things started… No, this time I skipped all that [...]
I spent this past weekend knee deep in glue, cardboard and colorful little bits of leather. By the end of three very full days (Friday afternoon got tossed in there as well) I had produced a diminutive looking little box for the three journals that followed me back from Africa. More than anything, this functioned [...]
My new, post-Africa self doesn’t like working this late. My new post-Africa self doesn’t like screens either. In fact, come to think of it, my new, post-Africa self has actually developed a serious aversion to work altogether. Surprise surprise. Thankfully, I’ve discovered another helpful voice to keep me from blinking too frequently. This is grade-A, [...]
I’m getting closer. There’s nothing to report from the real world – save my extraordinary poker win on Thursday – but there’s no shortage of interesting internet, so here’s Tuesday: Anyone who doesn’t want their personal history sucked off them from 150ft will be happy to know that instructables.comhas just begun a little brother feed which, apart from [...]
I can’t say that I’ve ever been overly excited to get shots, but this morning was a hoot. After a very serious looking doctor gave me forty-five minutes of important advice about the drugs she was about to administer (I could tell it was important advice because she was very serious the entire time) I [...]
We thought it had been lost. All the backups had been destroyed…all the work files deleted (an obvious security measure) and the film itself….forgotten. The last remaining copy was found in the dark recesses of Antonio’s iPod; put there – I’m sure – as an afterthought. He’s back. All three of him. No only that… [...]
Generally, I try to stay away from the office at 2am on a Tuesday. The bloodshot stench of an honest-to-god workaholic doesn’t feel quite right coming from under my own skin until at least Thursday, if not the weekend. This time however, the God of Responsible Employment was out to even a pretty hefty score, [...]