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Firstly...
I miss my sweetie ( Read more... ) -
Interesting people
One day my mother and I were talking about the musicians I liked, and how she "wasn't surprised I enjoyed Laurie Anderson and Björk". I thought about that recently, about how the two of them are - the Icelandic romantic pixie and the more East-Coast Avant Garde poet ( Read more... ) -
On the "Left" and the "Right"
I have certain members of my family who I'd call, generously, "enthusiastically politically active". Very much. In fact, I believe it has something to do with her father being conservative and not giving much attention to her opinion in the past, but I can only guess and it'd be unfair to assume that's the case ( Read more... ) -
Fahte Lewts
It seemed like the trend ( Read more... ) -
Quiet... afternoon?
Now that we're winding down the year, I'm cleaning out all the crap we've got in the IT office. Old boxes for equipment that's been around longer than I have, some funky old desktop workstations that don't work anymore, an old Mac G5 desktop that I'll be donating, that sort of thing. I feel less stressed when there isn't a ton of crap piled around ( Read more... ) -
Wishlist 2010
Okay, it's been a long time and I've wound up buying a good deal of stuff that I wanted this year anyway... but there's always *something* I could use or a cause I'd like to support ( Read more... ) -
Why I have debt
When my dad asked me, a long while back, how much debt I was in, I said: if I totaled my credit card debt up, I'd have just over $24,000. He was shocked - how could I have got into so much debt ( Read more... ) -
Portland trip, Nov. 18-20, 2010
(strange, my mobile posting seemed not to have worked. Oh well ( Read more... ) -
The unenviable position of political differences at work
Alas, I've found someone at work who has differences of opinion with me in regards to some political thought. Fortunately, he doesn't seem to be in favor of legislating against civil rights, but he does bring the arguments up. Like the slippery slope that if we're allowing people of the same gender to marry, that opens up the possibility for other ( Read more... ) -
Challenger - 1986
I've been using the Challenger disaster as my age-group's defining "where where you when..." - for at least when we were kids in school. It's been 24 years, and I don't remember it as vividly as other news events, but it still one of those moments I'll always remember. I even watched some of the investigation footage on YouTube - including a bit by ( Read more... )