Bought soap

Took recycling out

It's Lent again, when I do stuff I've been putting off.

I'm starting small.

Ordered a towel rack

Also, looked up maid services on Craigslist.


Today's earrings: eyes, saws

Bedtime reading: The Android's Dream, John Scalzi

SCIENCE!

We went to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Palace of Fine Art. Among the SCIENCE! he spoke of turtles all the way down (Dan'l told it better). After, we stopped at Mel's for munchies.

I think we're on for brunch this Saturday.


Today's earrings: eyes, dopamine molecules

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Got stuff done

Mailed my taxes, moved my computer so the sun won't be rising over it any more, even got through a decent amount of work.


Today's earrings: eyes, mailboxes

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Happy Ides of March!

And also, Dan Luten's Brithday.

I decided to mark the day by trying out the bar & grill that just opened in Hallidie Plaza. The kitchen seems to be doing ok, but the counter staff do not yet have the hang of the registers.


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: The Danger, Dick Francis

False alarm

Yesterday's big alarums were d/t me looking at the wrong file. Up side: we do not have to add 9,000 lines one at a time by hand. Down side: some customer is still pestering IT for an update I can't find.

And I have to lead a seminar on Excel tomorrow at 2.


Today's earrings: eyes, crows

Bedtime reading: Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore

I have the technology

Went to Tanforan with b2, came home with a new (flat) tv and a dvd player that works. Spent the rest of the afternoon and evening watching Supernatural season 4. The world is good.


Today's earrings: eyes, wishbones

Bedtime reading: what, are you kidding? I'm falling asleep in front of the new tv.

Eternal vigilance, or, someone should hire some proofreaders

The USITC posted fourteen changes today, and five of those changes have conspicuous errors. There may be more mistakes that I just haven't found yet.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Nesting

This weekend, I got almost all my paper tucked into discreet little black boxes that fit neatly into the fronts of the window seats. And it is good.

But I keep thinking up more stuff to want. It's not good.


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

I got stuff checked off my list

Didn't get a whole lot of work done, but I did make contact with the Loan People (sent them much paper) and The Realtor (fille) (made an appointment to do paperwork Sunday).


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Red As Blood, Tanith Lee

Brunch stretches out all day

Turns out everybody was right: Apples to Apples is fun.


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

Big Brother

Today's earrings: eyes, cameras

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

I'm back!

Shiny New Computer is shiny.


Today's earrings: eyes, apples

Bedtime reading: One Man Show, Michael Innes

Camera

16c., in Mod.L. camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), from L. camera "vaulted room," from Gk. kamara "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." Contrasted with camera lucida (L., "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce an image on paper beneath the instrument, which can be traced. Shortened to camera when modern photography began, 1840 (extended to television filming devices 1928).
Camera-shy is from 1922.
- - Etymonline.com

Today's earrings: eyes, cameras

Bedtime reading: Reflex, Dick Francis

Saving Grace

The new season permiered tonight. I've gotten to like the show, despite TNT's lousy advertising. (Seriously, when the ads run in the middle of the show, I change the channel, they're so bad.) Anyway - what I like are the little things, like the collection jar perched on a counter near the office door. It wasn't mentioned in the dialogue at all. The characters talked about the guy for whom the collection was being taken, and they slipped cash into the jar in passing, but the scriptwriters restrained themselves from having the characters explain it to the dim-witted in the audience. I like that.


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere, Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

Deep Thoughts

We were talking tonight about the fractal nature of Disneyland. How everywhere you look inside the park, there's always more to see. Was Walt a an experimental geometer? Inquiring minds want to know.


Today's earrings: eyes, crows

Bedtime reading: Dolly and the Bird of Paradise, Dorothy Dunnett

Happy Inauguaral!

Dude, it's been a totally frabjous day. There were all these petty annoyances - starting with me spilling coffee on the front of my pale green shirt first thing in the morning and the spot nagging away at my peripheral vision all day - but I was still obnoxiously cheerful.

Kinda like these people.


Today's earrings: eyes, suns

Bedtime reading: "Great Day in the Morning," R.A. Lafferty

That's much better.

I'm not all that enthused about Obama - he's said some things, and voted for some stuff, that I am still way not happy about - but OMG I am SO INCREDIBLY cap-locking HAPPY that he won, in a landslide, sweeping Democrats into office behind him all over the place. Maybe we can start inching back away from the Pit now.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed about Prop 8.


eta: I am totally enthused about Michelle Obama as First Lady. Damn, but that woman has poise. Plus the whole smart & accomplished thing. She's going to be great.

Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: A Taste For Death, Peter O'Donnell

The woman at the next desk is listening to Journey

I guess her headphones came unplugged, or something, because her music is playing loud and clear. "Don't Stop Believing" added an interesting background track to the Cars' "Shake It Up," but "Wheel in the Sky" did nothing good for Michelle Shocked's "Shaking Hands."

Just thought I'd share that with everyone.

Don't stop belee-eevin'
hold on to that feeling, baby


UPDATE, 3pm: I think she went to the gym or something, because she was wearing a perfectly businesslike skirt 'n' top, and now she's in sweats and a Rolling Stones T-shirt. The one with the lolling tongue. Poseur. I know she listens to Journey.


Today's earrings: eyes, crows

Bedtime reading: Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett