Tidied my dresser-top

Next step: re-sort the earrings.


Today's earrings: balloons, men

Bedtime reading: Breakup, Dana Stabenow

Evil pop-ups

My computer got malware over the weekend, due (in part) to my failure to do anything to prevent it. I was planning to go buy some anti-evil software this evening. The remaining IT dude here suggested I try his favorite free download first. So I'm doing that tonight. If it works, free solution! If it doesn't work, I'll buy software tomorrow.

I'm not really expecting it to work, so I'm blogging from the office.

eta: I think it worked.


Today's earrings: rockets, men

Bedtime reading: "Eurema's Dam," R.A. Lafferty

The fiscal year is waning

and the folks at the head office are most eager that we should use all our vacation days before June 1. So! Half-days for the rest of the week, taking Monday off, and then I have to devise more leisure. Perhaps I could go east. I should definitely have lunch with sisters...


Today's earrings: rockets, men

Bedtime reading: Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Have a nice day

I don't have a nice day any more. I don't bother much with that. I think I'm beyond that now. I think I've outgrown the nice day. I think I've had my share. Why should I be hogging all the really nice ones? Let somebody else have a few. Course, everybody still wants me to have one. Everybody wants me to have a nice day. 'Have a nice day!' Yeah, yeah, yeah. You wanna give me my fucking change, please? I'm triple parked...

- - George Carlin

Today's earrings: monkeys, men

Bedtime reading: The Danger, Dick Francis

This morning on the bus

I saw the new exterior of the Owl Tree. It's a black and white mosaic of snowy owl face in extreme close up. Pretty cool, I thought.

I should visit.


Today's earrings: frogs, men

Bedtime reading: The Lyre of Orpheus, Robertson Davies

Pretty good day

I hit Green Apple after work, and discovered
:) - a present for Tiger
:) - Pomegranate has reissued the Fantod Deck
:) - they had penicillin in stock
:( - you have to spend $150 to get a free bag. No free bag for me.

Then there were pot stickers. :)


Today's acquisitions: Life on the Mississippi; Mark Twain; Bantam, 1990
Winnie Ille Pu; A.A. Milne, Alexander Lenard, trans.; Penguin, 1991
Men and Gods; Rex Warner, trans., Edward Gorey, il.; New York Review of Books, 2007
The Fantod Pack, Interpreted by Madame Groeda Weyrd; Edward Gorey; Pomegranate, 2007
The Culture of Fear; Barry Glassner; Basic Books, 1999
The Three-Martini Playdate; Christie Mellor; Chronicle Books, 2004
How To; Jennifer McKnight-Trontz; Chronicle Books, 2004

[some presents]

Today's earrings: mice, men

Bedtime reading: Owl's Well That Ends Well, Donna Andrews

Election Day

As of this writing, the incumbent mayor, district attorney, and sheriff are winning in landslides.


Today's earrings: mice, men

Bedtime reading: Aesop's Fables, Townsend & James, trans.

Matinee Idylls

M and I played scientist today, and we now have experimental evidence that Spiderman 3 is less fun that watching paint dry.

Other observations:
- Nice effects. Too bad they went on too long.
- The only actor with any subtlety was JK Simmons. A one-dimensional role, and he plays it broad - but he's the one who got some nuance out of the lousy script.
- Stan Lee did a nice cameo.
- Rebound Girl going, "You asked me out to annoy someone else. Get bent." That was nice.
- If they do make another, I hope against hope that "MJ" got some of that space goo on her.
- No final decision has been reached on the taupes, though yellow has been definitely rejected.


Borrowed The Foundation Trilogy from M.


Today's earrings: spiders, men

Bedtime reading: Foundation, Isaac Asimov