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March 2002 ArchiveThursday, March 28, 2002BlognesiaBlognesia is when you come up with something clever to write about when you're away from your computer, but once you're ready to blog has left your brain entirely. Bad case of blognesia. But
all in all this was a very good day. After a week of being home
lots, I couldn't have asked for a more lovely human contact
day. Several nice moments with strangers. Even the library security
guard was pleasant, which they never are. Granted the AV librarian
was really rude, making faces at me. Why, yes, miss, I am checking
out an Umberto Eco audio cassette and another one on how to speak
with a Norwegian accent. So? That's
the beauty of the library. Hey,
I remembered my thought! So,
I was walking to the check out with a "Complete Idiot" and a "Dummy"
book under my arm. I walked past 4 more on tables I passed. For
along time I've been irked by the tone of the series' titles.
I would rather they had been named "Finally, a Useful,
Well-Organized and Relatively Concise Book About ____________."
Obviously, there's a huge audience for these things, and the two
publishers must be making a mint. I'd rather a fortune being made
by a long overdue format than a condescending titles. .
Wednesday, March 27, 2002Home Sweet HomeLast weekend I bruised and grunted myself into a new furniture arrangement in my apartment. Nothing particularly wrong with the old arrangement, but I was getting the itch and a moving-day, hand-me-down bookcase from Diane and Peter instigated the change. I used to rearrange my furniture as kid all the time. I remember being 8 maybe and sitting on the floor and pushing my dresser around with my feet. One of the curses of being "spatially intelligent" and apparently spatially restless. Today,
I was puttering around and I just had a pang of adoration for
my apartment. The view of my apartment from my futon is peaceful.
I love to wash the dishes I painted at the paint-your-own-pottery
place. I hate washing anything else. And I took the cd out of
my stereo and there is now a perfectly logical place to set them.
Aaahhhhh....
Tuesday, March 26, 2002How have I lived so long without seeing the Pompeii Scene in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity? Hipsteriffic.posted on 3/26/2002 04:34:50 PM Brain
is going in a bunch of different directions right now, few of
them pleasant. Taxes, finding work, working on site, bits of client
work, feeling sick-ish, feeling overwhelmed. Just makes me want
to curl up in bed. Happily, today and tomorrow I've got next to
nothing on the books, so I've got time. Time with no deadlines
is a gift, but also a challenge to make the best of it.
Monday, March 25, 2002Oscar recapNot enough snazziriffic dresses, so glad not to see an runaway winner (Lord of the Rings and A Beautiful Mind each got 4, but 4's not a whole lot), and Errol Morris was too-cool-for-school with his opening montage. Posted on 3/25/2002 09:09:16 PM
Sunday, March 24, 2002Oscaropinionalia #10Glad A Beautiful Mind won for Best Picture, because I really did think it was a better film than Moulin Rouge. But I would have also happily wet my pants if the latter had won, just for what it meant that such a crazyass movie was getting Hollywood's acceptance. Maybe would have made room for more truly avant garde movies. And
after Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's speeches, Russell Crowe practically
did win. While
watching I was rearranging furniture. After one pinched leg, about
4 bruises and a hefty backache later, I'm calling it a night.
Who knew the Oscars were so strenuous? Oscaropinionalia
#9 Oh
good! Ron Howard just won! Oscaropinionalia
#8 Oscaropinionalia
#7 Damn. Oscaropinionalia
#6 Oscaropinionalia
#5 I'm
digging the screenwriter-written descriptions of the technical
categories. Oscaropinionalia
#4 Oscaropinionalia
#3 Oscaropinionalia
#2 Those
are the categories I have any opinions on & I only picked folks
in movies I have seen. Except for Randy Newman who just needs
to win. There's only two I am really rooting for, which
are Russell Crowe for just kicking acting ass (I was lucky enough
to see the film pre-hype/accolades/controversy/bullshit) and Moulin
Rouge as the underdog that was just plain ballsy. I know both
are movies people love to hate and I don't care. So there. Oscaropinionalia
#1
Thursday, March 21, 2002Biological DysfunctionYeah,
nobody's eager to hear about my illness. Too bad - I'm eager to
talk about. I
nearly never get sick. I usually know when it'll happen, because
I know when I've worn myself out and let me immunity plummet.
Plus, last weekend I both traveled and spent several days around
other people. My introversion and freelancing doesn't put in germspace
very often. I had a fantastic experience in Palo Alto with some
genuine ups and downs, ending on a big Up. Then
I woke up the next day with the sneezes with the post-sneeze wave
of exhaustion. Not playful little sneezes, but the kind of sneezes
that alert you to the hard work your immune system is doing inside.
Other than combat sneezes and a tiny sore throat, I was feeling
ok. Not great, just ok. I came back on Sunday night. Monday through
Wednesday more of the same sorta blah/sorta fine. Then last night,
all hell broke lose. Everything was exiting. I had given myself
a simple, artsy, semi-time-critical task to do. Would have been
pretty routine except for the emergencies of the kleenex and toilet
varieties. It wasn't the kind of sick that sends you promptly
to bed to sleep that thick, achey sleep. I was pretty alert, mostly
functional. I would stop and say, "I just don't feel right." Yes,
I live alone, I have no audience; but the feeling was just persistent
and unnerving enough to make me verbalize it. By the time I finished
my task I was feeling very much indisposed. I staggered off to
the bathroom, took some Nyquil capsules, and crawled into bed.
Then laid there, thinking really hard about being still. There
was a din in me that made that really hard. I laid there for awhile
and then, I'm assuming, the Nyquil wave washed over me. Today,
I feel ok. But ok's not great. Who knows?
Wednesday, March 20, 2002Last night I was thinking about the similarity between horses and pianos - both huge heavy things with skinny legs.One
of the more oblique quizzes I've found - "What HTML tag are you?"
Sunday, March 17, 2002Home again, home again.Much
on my mind, but too pooped from my flight to recount. I was dozing
on and off on a little-too-warm plane for several hours. When
I woke up, I had that corn-syrup-in-my-veins feeling. More later.
Kudos
to FontLover for creating an online quiz with options/answers
I could live with. So, often I take quizzes and am left with that
feeling of "Well, sorta..." I could easily answer nearly every
Q and I already own and enjoy Eight Track.
Thursday, March 14, 2002FlashbackI'm
presently in Palo Alto at the MGTaylor knOwhere
store a space I used to work at occasionally for Ernst & Young
in from 97-99. Fabulous space, fantastic set of processes. At
the same time toxic culture and loads of politics. So, it's bittersweet
to be here. It's great be here under completely different auspices,
but still lots of flashbacks. Working at 3 am in flip flops that
Jolynn bought me from the nearby Target. Getting a team of 20
to humor me and celebrate Kevin Spacey's birthday with me. Belting
out torchsongs late night to keep sane and get my work done. Working
here with my favorite biotech company every time. Had I stuck
around with EY and they had done another workshop, I was going
to get a tour of their co. in South San Fran. Managing "personality
issues" round the clock. Eating the sheet of beef jerky from the
7-11 across the street. Many, Many Slamin' Juice smoothies (I'm
delighted that they are still next door). Enough memory lane for
now. Later, gators.
Monday, March 11, 2002The best things in life are...
Thursday, March 07, 2002Things that have transpired[x] Cleaned my computer mouse. No wonder it was working shoddily; one roller looked like it was made of felt. Turns out that felt is removable. :) [x] I fell in love with microcars. [x] Working on my site. On Monday, I launched the new homepage. Smarter and more complete. At least more complete to the big picture. There are contentless pages there, but it's all progressing. [x] Slouching in front of the computer for many hours. Hibernating through the winter that has finally arrived in Chicago. [x] I've been on the brink of needing a cell phone. I need a business number now that I'm getting my online store going. I'm paying too much for long distance. A cell phone would occasionally be useful. The solution surfaced. Handspring VisorPhone. Last time I considered it, there wasn't any coverage. Now there is, + a great deal through Handspring (no sweeter words than FREE), + free long distance deal, + total integration w/ the address book, + rave reviews, + I've got the Visor already, + I can surf the net. Posted on 3/7/2002 09:54:28 AM
Monday, March 04, 2002Toilet Paper PillowsYesterday, I turned left and headed down the seasonal aisle at my neighborhood grocery store (the big kind, not the corner kind). I was perusing the early Easter candy to see if there was anything snackable while I worked on the site. I look to my right and noticed that a man was horizontally, when usually people at the grocery stay vertical. He's laid out right in from of the pharmacist's counter with the store manager leaning over him. I was about a half an aisle's length away, and was surprised by the calm of the situation. The man had had a seizure and was now just coming to as the ambulance arrived. Despite a whole lot of shopping going on, and the disruption of normalcy, there was a lack of buzz in the air. A very calm calm. The man laid there with his head on a 4 pack of Charmin. Posted on 3/4/2002 12:03:58 AM
Friday, March 01, 2002Another acre of cyberspace cultivatedToday I built a simple site for my friend Mark Ehling's new publication, Oscal Bazook's Pocket Diversions. Self-publishing
and marketing were the reasons I got into the web in the first
place. So, I am delighted to have, as Mark said, "The skills to
pay the bills," and able to get good stuff out there. Go!
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