Board feet

I'm not sure yet how many more shelves I'll really need. I have to shuffle stuff around a bit, stash a box or two back in the basement, maybe sell some books.

Plus I need someplace to put the music.


Today's earrings: octopi, trees

Bedtime reading: Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore

Hardware

Stopped off at the hardware store on the way home and picked up some more shelf pegs; hung the last of the shelves.

It's not all going to fit.


Today's earrings: boots, chickens

Bedtime reading: Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore

Here comes the rain again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFnYcIqj6I


Today's earrings: bees, leaves

Bedtime reading: Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore

Only six more book boxes in the basement

Today's boxes: Art; Hardcover Fiction, A-H.


Today's earrings: leaves, typewriter keys

Bedtime reading: Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Christopher Moore

Up against the wall

The handymen came this morning and attached cases to walls. The world is good.


Today's earrings: turtles, tools

Bedtime reading: Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore

Protest time

Just as I got home, a bunch of people with signs marched by, escorted by motorcycle cops. Then sirens. Then the people with signs marched back the other way, escorted by motorcycle cops.

Later, Cirie got blindsided by JT.


Today's earrings: octopi, alligators

Bedtime reading: Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore

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

Final Menu for Pi Day

- - Hungry Lemming

Today's earrings: turtles, coins

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

Eye Appointment

- Hello, [lengthy place-of business ID and greeting], how may I help you?
- - Hi, I'd like to schedule an eye exam. When can I come in?
- When would you like to come in?
- - When's the next available appointment?
- When would you like it to be?
- - Do you always answer a question with a question?
- Do you... um... Darn it.
- - I win! Hooray!
- I just couldn't get it turned around in time. *sigh* But really, when do you want to come in? I don't think we can see you today.
- - How's Tuesday?
Appointment-making nitty-gritty ensued.

It wasn't until he read back the date that I realized I'd chosen St. Patrick's Day to get my eyes checked.


Today's earrings: diamonds, garnets

Bedtime Reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

Cheers

- - Edward Gorey

Today's earrings: roses, citrines

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

3 is a Magic Number

Three is a magic number,
Yes it is, it's a magic number.
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
You get three as a magic number.

The past and the present and the future.
Faith and Hope and Charity,
The heart and the brain and the body
Give you three as a magic number.

It takes three legs to make a tri-pod
Or to make a table stand.
It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle
Called a tricycle.

Every triangle has three corners,
Every triangle has three sides,
No more, no less.
You don't have to guess.
When it's three you can see
It's a magic number.

A man and a woman had a little baby,
Yes, they did.
They had three in the family,
And that's a magic number.

3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.
3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30.

- - Bob Dorough


Today's earrings: hands, basketweaves

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

Channel flipping tonight

I found myself watching a show on how KitchenAid mixers are made. Most soothing.


Today's earrings: flies, amber

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

Forward Planning

Pi Day is on a Saturday this year. We should gather and consume pie.

There's an Author Guy Appearance in Petaluma at 7pm on Friday, March 27. We could do that. Or we could stick with the original plan of Capitola on a Wednesday. We should discuss this while consuming pie.


Today's earrings: ants, blue & green beads

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

A village is missing its idiot

Tonight on Survivor: someone makes a tactical error and has to go to a fair amount of trouble to fix it. She gets a lot of camera time gloating about how great she is for cleaning up her own mess. Since part of what she's impressing herself with is the successful conning of the dumbest person ever to play the game, I'm thinking she ought to dial back the self-congratulation a little.


Today's earrings: skeletal fish

Bedtime reading: Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore

Nevertheless

you've seen a strawberry
that's had a struggle; yet
was, where the fragments met,

a hedgehog or a star-
fish for the multitude
of seeds. What better food

than apple seeds - the fruit
within the fruit - locked in
like counter-curved twin

hazelnuts? Frost that kills
the little rubber-plant -
leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can't

harm the roots; they still grow
in frozen ground. Once where
there was a prickley-pear -

leaf clinging to a barbed wire,
a root shot down to grow
in earth two feet below;

as carrots from mandrakes
or a ram's-horn root some-
times. Victory won't come

to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till

knotted thirty times - so
the bound twig that's under-
gone and over-gone, can't stir.

The weak overcomes its
menace, the strong over-
comes itself. What is there

like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!

- - Marianne Moore


Today's earrings: flowers, amber drops

Bedtime reading: L. Frank Baum, Katharine M. Rogers

Here, lizard, lizard, lizard

Today's earrings: lizards, green eggs

Bedtime reading: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Christopher Moore

WooHoo!

My business cards came in! I'm official!

Just like a real live girl.
["I was going to put "Real Live Girl" under your title, but HR talked me out of it."
- - Guy who ordered the business cards for me]


Today's earrings: fish, aquamarines

Bedtime reading: Fluke, Christopher Moore