It’s Thursday again, I don’t know how I feel today-a little tired. Odd feeling. Sorta disconnected. I’ve been listening to Junky by W.S. Burroughs in the car-he’s reading it. It’s pretty cool, but I think it’s affecting my psyche a bit. I’m also listening to Democracy Now. It’s bad, bad, bad. Civil rights are going away, everywhere, if they aren’t gone already.
We went to DeBenneville Pines over the weekend. I took off Friday, we had lunch at Ruby’s and drove up just after noon. It rained on the way up-we saw 5 accidents-one big one close to home, and the rest on snowy roads-we actually witnessed one of them. I have no problems driving in the snow, they made us put chains on. It stopped snowing, and the snow was gone by mid-Saturday. The kids sledded anyways. Saw a lot of people, drank some, played with the kids. I got to read some of Steiner’s The Spirit of the Waldorf School. We drove home and went to the spa. The week has been pretty quiet. My routine is changing a bit-I play with the kids at school, poke my head in the school office, say bye to Matt in line, go to work, work, come home, put the kids to bed and work until it’s time to eat, eat, work until it’s time to go to sleep, sleep. Erika rearranged the bedroom. The boys got kids’ roller skates-now I have to get mine out of storage…I’m starting on a third job. Pascal/btrieve maintenance programming. I’m still getting my legs under me on it. I’m on a bit of a prog kick right now-listening to Hawkwind now, Utopia, Allan Holdsworth, Gentle Giant and Primus too. The boys like it too-we call it boy music. I’m also picking up a bunch of free Dead concert MP3’s from Internet Archive. I really love their “Anthem of the Sun” era material.
I didn’t write up any topical stuff-the Oscars were this week-we didn’t watch. Stewart seemed to do a good job. My wife was watching Project Runway, which just ended, but I don’t care. Britney’s pregnant again. whoopee. U.S. is leaving Abu Graib-there’s enough other places to torture people now… The Dubai port deal got abandoned too. But the Supremes stopped the ban on military recruiting at college campuses. That’s two wins, one loss. Augustine volcano in Alaska is building up a lava dome. And the usual death, disaster, crime, war in the news. whoopee.
I picked up Free Pascal, and a copy of Turbo Pascal 7.0 for the job I’m doing, also the Zend Framework and TransMac to try to find my copy of Turbo Pascal. I think I need Borland Pascal, though.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Just because you have video footage of something relevant, for example, doesn’t mean you have to use it.”