Today was relaxing. Started with apple pancakes, the finally fixed a drawer in the kitchen where the support had fallen out of the middle. Installed the new attic window … learning, along the way, that windows are always a little bit smaller than the specified size…so you have to shim them. Strange. I’ve gotten to . . . → Read More: Birds…
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I read The Pain comics regularly. This week, in his “artists statement”, he includes a nice little thought: she had a fish who lived in a little fishbowl on her wiindowsill. The fish could see vague, refracted shapes sliding about outside the bowl. Once a day, fish food would rain down from the surface like . . . → Read More: Links… Week from hell is over. I’m done. Baked, broiled, fried, cooked, toasted, sauteed, braised, and quite possibly docile enough to serve raw with a light teriyaki sauce on a bed of seaweed. In other words, the turkey timer has popped, the bell has rung, the time is elapsed. Stick a fork in me, I’m done. . . . → Read More: Done I have been invited to a costume party. While I have a habit of showing up to these things in ordinary garb, laden with smart-ass attitude (my costume? I’m pretending to be one of you) … I thought that it might be fun to go all out this year. In the spirit of openness . . . → Read More: Costume party Class went well yesterday. A decent time was had by all, and then we took the class (those as wished to go) out to Legal Seafoods. I had oysters and really freakin’ sweet tuna. Oh, and beer. I had that too. Then, since it was about 9, and the next train to Providence was at . . . → Read More: Zonk At last the week from Hell draws nearer to a close. I really don’t know how you people who have to go in to the office every day do it. How did I survive this, back when I did it? The alarm clock every morning? Hustle for the train … fight traffic. Man, it’s . . . → Read More: At last we will reveal ourselves to the jedi… I wish I was this clever. That’s the argument I’ve been trying to get to stick for a couple of years now. Problem was, my analogies were too weak. I used things like “looking both ways before crossing the street,” instead of kneecap breaking. As I stumbled out of the Back Bay train station this morning for a breath of real air before clambering down onto the T, I had a realization: I’m living the dream. It’s my little dream, but I’m living it. I live within striking distance of Boston, and I get to work in town enough . . . → Read More: Living the dream… Spent my day wrestling operating system images onto computers. In between that, I yelled at customers. Okay, I yelled at a hardware reseller who seems absolutely determined to provide their customers with a non-functional system. At one point I snapped and asked why, given that he had gotten to a working system, he had felt . . . → Read More: Push push push… |
