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how i spent my (unpaid) summer vacation – week four

30 Jul

I really didn’t do much of anything, because of this damned summer cold I found myself saddled with. Laundry and rest, basically. I played some music with some people on Sunday, and couple of us parental types took our kids collectively bowling. That was kind of cool. In amongst that, I started hacking around with […]

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literary lunchtime wisdom

01 Jul

From page 112 of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane: I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when […]

friday pandora ten – “call of the wild” edition

21 Jun

So…yeah. It’s been a long week (despite being shorter than usual thanks to some time off from work), and it ain’t over yet. Next week looks just as loaded. Hrm. My commute this week has been relatively easy, thankfully – I’ve been working throught he audiobook of John Krakauer’s Into the Wild, which pieces together […]

seventy-two hours in may

13 May

So, it was a weekend. Thankfully, not much going on. After another five hour drive home from work on Friday, I wasn’t up for much anyway. However, I kind of expect this, and have more or less built it into my expectations by now. The job, it’s myriad drawbacks and frustrations considered, has, at least […]

may the fourth be with you

04 May

because, it’s Star Wars Day. Also, it’s Free Comic Book Day, so why don’t you go track down your local indie comic shop, get some free books, and make a friend?

friday random ten – “switching channels” edition

19 Apr

started this playlist on the mp3 player, which didn’t last all that long because the battery crapped out (must’ve gotten turned on while being jostled around in my bag*), so I shifted to Pandora part way through. See if you can guess where: “Your Brain Turns Me On” – Mikey Mason “Heat of the Night” […]

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