I went to a friend's band's show on Friday. Getting out of the house? Seeing live music? Yeah, baby ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the things in my field of vision don't all show up at the same time. Bits of darkness, like the inside of a keyhole, the dark handle of a valve on one of those pipes near my ceiling, an insect, will appear only after the lighter (or lighted) surfaces. It gets confusing in summer. I'll see a dark bit and think, "I have you now, mosquito ( Read more... )

I have problems answering that old question, are you a morning person or an evening person? 5:30 doesn't seem too late to go to bed or too early to wake up. I've realized that it's the middle of the day that bothers me. I'm a morning person and an evening person, but I'm definitely not a noon person. This is going to be a problem until the sun ( Read more... )

Minor league baseball games are good times.

My major weakness in the game of Kings (AKA Circle of Death) is that I have trouble leaving questions unanswered.

I somehow know all the words to "Proud to Be an American". While I am proud to be an American, I'm not sure how I feel about knowing the song ( Read more... )

Things to Do ( Read more... )

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The computer repair place is closed today, so I haven't inquired about whether or not thy can replace/repair my network card. The external hard drive I bought online turns out to be an internal hard drive. I'm going to keep it in case anyone needs a hard drive ( Read more... )

Books and Movies, February 2010

Movies
Moby Dick, 1956
Ultraviolet, 2006
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
3:10 to Yuma, 1957
3:10 to Yuma, 2007
Moon, 2009
The Air I Breathe, 2007
Hellboy II,
American History X,

Books
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Clash of ( Read more... )

I know it's April. I just wrote this today. Still having computer problems.

Movies
Arthur, 1961
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1964
Rocket Science, 2007
Sherlock Holmes, 2009

Books
Grand Avenues by Scott Berg
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In her How to Hepburn, Karen Karbo makes an observation worth sharing (apologies for the long excerpt ( Read more... )

Someone else with a Fall birthday once asked me what I do when I get the birthday blues. Well, I wait for Spring. I'm always excited coming into Winter, at least a little bit. And snow is exciting. And the new year is exciting. And chili cook-offs are exciting. But eventually I just stop and wait. Or not entirely. Part of me is scrabbling over the ( Read more... )