March 27th thru April 2nd, 2005

Sunday March 27th, 2005, Easter

Monday March 28th, 2005

Lots and Lots of Music
Between snatches of work, I snatched songs off the internet where I could find them. Here's a list of what I got just today:

I Went Bowling
I was the only one on my team who could make it tonight. But that's okay because I won't be able to make it next week. I did pretty good for a change. I had "White Lines" running through my head. I manged a 183 in the first game, then a 154 and a 140. That'll raise my average by 5 pins. I also took care oif the secratay duties for the regular person on account of her needing to do some packing at home.

And then I wrote an Essay
You can read the gist of the rest of the evening in this essay I wrote. I'm no David Sedaris, mind you. But I was in the mood to jot some things down. Its funny-- once I started writing, there's was no music playing. Waddaya know. Hope you enjoys it.

Tuesday March 29th, 2005

I know also that coffee night happened, as always. Nothing but regulars, which was okay by me-- I'ts nice to see new faces, but it's nice to see know the familiars are still familiar.

Here's something I can talk about: Bad Karma. Driving from my place to coffe on a Tuesday before six takes me down roads that are also travelled by people from my pas who I do not see anymore. And the parting was not joyous. And my bitterness sometimes surfaces and so i make disparaging remarks. But I should not, for I have excellent friendships now and that old one might as well be a museum piece. So while I am not right now going to formally apologize, for no one else was injured by my unpleasant comments, I will neverhteless here, in writing, attempt to declarer a self-imposed moratorium on rude comments that don't even entertain. My bad!

Save Money Not!
I get bills, just like everyone else. And in the credit card bills are usually 2 or 3 inserts-- please, since you have credit, buy stuff from us! One of them was for this tupperware organizer set. Only 35 bucks, right? Check out the cost for shipping and handling:

Nothing Else
That's all I remember. I think I went to Target and best Buy after coffee to look for an iPod microphone, but neither carried any. Then I went home and fell asleep in the bed. Under the covers. Hugging the body pillow. I am practicing good sleep habits.

Wednesday March 30th, 2005

Sex is Not Supposed to Be Polite
Went with some folks down to the Big Picture to see Dan Savage and some actors read from and comment on advice columns over the ages. It appeared as if everyone there had only been handed the script that night, which was fine, but why where "costumes" of pajamas and bathrobes if it wasn't supposed to be a "prepared" performance. The QnA after was more interesting, where Dan talked about Gay Rights, Abortion Rights, and other nonsense. Not that rights are nonsense! I was just tired and hungry by then. I asked a question-- trying to remain on the subject of advice columns. I mentioned that Miss Manners once sdaid the basic rule of ettiquette is never make another uncomfortable. Is the same true for sex advice? Dan said "absolutely not."

On the way out, I found, abandoned, 40 bucks in the ATM machine. Score! And since I was parked close to the Old Spaghetti Factory, and since I was paying, we ate there. And everyone assured me the food was awful. Thank god I was raised by plebeians in Kansas, allowing me the retarded luxury of enjoying anything that's more or less prepared consistantly.

Thursday March 31st, 2005

Conference Calls About Conferencing Centers Have an Air of Onanism
Woke and had a conference call. Worked on a bunch of stuff. Grabbed some more music, and more importantly, finished of another phase of updating music tags. Now all my songs have a a year of publication, an album, a track number, and a number indicating how many tracks the original album had (track "3 of 12," for example). The next step is the trully herculean task of grabbing album art images for every song. A lot of the tags already have them, but I have 2800 songs to look through. Garsh.

The Calm of Soup before the Storm of Pasta
I ordered a pizza, submitted my timesheet, played some Matrix Online. I don't know how much longer I am going to last in that game. So far there has not been a whole lot of variety. Movement is sort of choppy. and I hit a bad bug that had me locked in a room with an elevator door that would not open. Right now I only have two people to get missions from, and the only way i was able to finish each of the last two missions was to exploit bad AI. I guess all of these things can be said to be, for once, a legitimate part of the gaming experience. Let's say you are a weird nerd and you work for some sort of publisher, and you actually like to read the small print at the front of novels and other books. For you, the book "starts" well before you even got to the first word conceived by the author. Maybe you are some sort of paper-making nut, and for you the book experience starts before your eyes are even on the darn thing, while you're still picking it up with your hands. So, I suppose, since the matrix is about a computer world, I might be able to find pleasure in the challanges of the actual computer issues I am having. I COULD, but screw that. I wanna jump off tall buildings.

Cascadia
the 25 for 25 dinner was moved from Wednesday to Thursday this week, and was at Cascadia. I wore a jacket. Don't laugh. I had two gin and tonics and got well drunk (but sober by meal's end). Because we were a large party of 12, we got a private room, in a loft overlooking the rest of the seating area. That was pretty classy. I had the salmon appetizer and the lamb schnitzel and the trifle for dessert. It was all very tasty, but the best part was hanging out with my friends. I was able to, at various points in the evening, say "it's not the size of the ass, but the shape of the shimmy," and also "when you smack that ass and it stays smacked, that's the ass to keep." Like I said, classy. Afterwards, walking to my card, an attractive blonde offered to share her umbrella. I think it was the jacket.

Friday April 1st, 2005, April Fool's Day

At night I went to the gym but my workout pard'ner did not show. By coincidence a familiar neighborhood denizen wandered by the gym so we went and got coffee (me a chantico). Then I went home and dressed for bowling and babes. Well nearly. I had to pre-bowl as I will be missing Monday next, and my fellow bowler had to post-bowl as she had missed the Monday previous. But half-way through the first game I manged to somehow break her pinkie and so she sat out the rest of the bowling. Then we got cheeseburgers. Then we were supposed to see Miss Congeniality 2 but our fatigue and the loomingness of weekend duties changed our minds. We chewed gum instead, and in my car, listened to "Run Runaway" by Slade. Here are the lyrics. They are so cheesy it's awesome.

Saturday April 2nd, 2005

Gingery Snappings
The three movies are called Ginger Snaps, Ginger Snaps Unleashed, and Ginger Snaps Back. But I watch them for Ginger's sister, Bridgitte (Emily Perkins). Chebora came over to eat soup and watch them flicks. Yes, feminism as personified as werewolfism. Lycanthropy. I just like how strung-out and goth Emily looks. And the movies are so Canadian. I wonder if Canada gets tired of being considered nothing more than Amnerica's big northern suburb. Hey, Canada, don't get mad-- I like the suburbs. I prefer the suburbs. But I also like strung-out goth chicks with dark eyes and a penchant for ass-kicking so maybe my likes aren't too complimentary. C'est la vie, which you should understand, cause y'all are part French too. Anyhoo. The movies were like B indie flicks, if you can figure what that one's aboot.