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Joss Whedon. Dan Savage. Starlee Kine.
All ye who live in the Pacific time zone (and Arizona.)
You have exactly 56 minutes to get your rear end to see This American Life LIVE!
See if the theater near you has it
I just got back from it and can't describe it. Superb.
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It is raining today.
I can either put on my yucky, sweaty, claustrophibic-inducing rain suit and go do my rubbish[1] route, or I can stay at home, drinking peppermint tea, make soup and savory onion-dill scones, and think about what I want to be doing next year.
A fourth go around as a farm worker? Cycle tour of the states and southern Canada? ( Read more... ) -
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Reason #47 Why Being Self-Employed is Glorious
...on a rainy Friday afternoon I can bake chocolate chip cookies and eat a vanilla bean/warm cookie ice cream sandwich deliciousness.
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So I commented on a post in one of my friend's journals about travel and it was too juicy and good to not let all of my friends see it and discuss it.
Credit to turquoiseflea for provoking me to think about this.
Please discuss.
( Is Volunteering Abroad a Unethical and Immoral Mission? ) -
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Yesterday I:
*Oiled (Tri-flowed, really) all the hinges, doorknobs and locks.
*Re-did caulking on kitchen and bathroom sinks
*Chipped out caulking on shower stall and redid the whole thing. (its so pretty! and not gross-black-moldy!)
Today thus far has been:
*Racking off 13 gallons of hard cider
*Boiling the dregs to separate yeast
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"The essence of life is that it's challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you fell 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it ( Read more... ) -
Where did January go?
Hmm, more than a month since my last post. Where did that time go?
*I've really started to enjoy Pedal People. Like, I love doing the work, if I were to go so far as assign that emotion to a part-time livelihood
*The past 2 weeks have done PP 4 days a week - my back and shoulders (especially shoulders) have been complaining. 2 of those days are ( Read more... ) -
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Hmm..supah fast!
We did our Christmas stuff yesterday since my brother Dan is working Wed to Sat nights. I got a 2 GB RAM upgrade, and when we opened up the memory bay, we discovered that I had a 1 bay 1 GB already, not the 2 bays of 512 MB that we expected.
So I now have 3 GB of RAM on my notebook. It's unbelievable!
I'm in a coffee shop 3 blocks ( Read more... ) -
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+ Warm (60 degree) rainy day today. Warm rain is good this time of year.
- Tomorrow a freezing rain and sleet storm forecast, when I have my big Pedal route, and also a trailer load left from Monday and two runs for a special pickup of leaves
+ Will earn ~$160 tomorrow for 6 to 7 hours of work. Will keep telling myself this as I bicycle in freezing ( Read more... ) -
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Browsing through online websites, the excitement one can order...
( Hot, very hot... )