Year: 2007

1:42 pm-In between tasks. The weekend: Friday-hang out, Saturday-Colin to a birthday party, me and Matt sat and watched Avatar. Sunday-church-did sound. Look at cars, the Hat, home. Monday-to school, teach computers to 7th graders, to work, home. Today-to school, t’ai chi, computer class, work. The baby is doing great-9 pounds, she’s noisy and barfing a bit. She’s filling in and looks like Matt. We got algae fish and 2 have died so far.

Listening to: DN!, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Rush, Bach

Page 23, Sentence 5: “This implied a future concentration of pricing leverage in the OPEC states, led by Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries, where the collective peak is thought to be further off.” American Theocracy

Listening to: Latin Playboys, Echoes of Nature, Tom Tom Club, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, DN!, Tool, Adrian Belew, Yungchen Lhamo, Rush

1:11 pm-Taking a quick break from filing. Not much going on today. So, yesterday-up with the baby, breakfast, kids to school, t’ai chi, work, US research, home, kids to bed, dinner, laze. Today-sleep in a bit, kids to school, work. I like listening to lib radio, but I’m backlogged. iTunes screws up my iPod everytime I connect them-I have to restore my iTunesdb file every time.

Listening to: Thom Hartmann, DN!, Randi Rhodes

Listening to: Megadeth, David Hudson, Art of Noise, Randi Rhodes, HFI webcast, DN!, Thom Hartmann

3:21 pm-Taking a break between tasks-tired. Yesterday-lunch, finished up work, libe, home, got a toy out of a tree, kids, baby, dinner, kids to bed, TV, dinner, bed. Today-up, kids to school, work, lunch thing for work, more work. Tired.

9:53 pm-In bed, watching Ghost Hunters. More work, home, BJ’s-yummy porter and calzone. Mother’s, home, upset stomach. Kids to bed, then here.

Listening to: Portishead, Gyudmed Monks, Hotel California?, Robert Rich, Clash, Art of Silence, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Michael Stearns, Stereolab

1:33 pm-Getting ready to go to lunch. Woke up at 6:30-back to sleep-sudden up at 7:15-aargh! Hurry to get to school, t’ai chi, to work. Kids were a bit scattered, I’m now too. DVD is still ripping. Computer is acting up. Listening to lib radio podcasts almost continuously. Still a bit sleepy. Need to go to get books from the libe. Something is bubbling up lyrics/musicwise. I need to sit down and work on this.

Listening to: Genesis, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Vandals, Tom Waits, Randi Rhodes, DN!, Gyuto Monks, Roger Eno, mystified, Echoes of Nature, Glass, Zappa, Grateful Dead, The Smiths, King Crimson, Monk

2:36 pm-Time for lunch, Quickly. Sat-count change, Kids fair, Sun-church, birthday party, wash. Today-up late-had to get up from a hard sleep to give Colin meds for an achy leg. Played with the kids a bit and made waffles for Mathias-day off for them. To work. No cash until payday.

11:01 pm-Watching the Daily Show. Not much-a guest visited, new job maybe, shop, home, dinner, kids to bed, dinner, shop again.

Listening to: Diamanda Galas, Veruca Salt, Earth Ear, Randi Rhodes, DN!, Thom Hartmann, Steve Miller, Malcolm McLaren, Deftones, Nirvana, Far Afield, Better in the Dark, Material, Babe the Blue Ox, Mingus, Bach, Tool, Genesis

7:58 pm-Sitting in bed, computing. Erika is watching some E.R. reality thing, Kids are watching cartoons. Yesterday-home, kids dinner, to bed, dinner, bed, up late. Today: up, kids to school, play, computer help in the office, home, wash, cleanup, nap, more cleaning, kids dinner. Whoopee. The house looks better.

Listening to: a Webbed Hand glitchy thing, King Crimson, Buckethead

5:19 pm-Time to go home. I’m tired. Yesterday-home, kids dinner, to bed, Colin had a tough time, dinner, reading, TV, sleep, up at 5am to settle the baby. Up, breakfast, to school, t’ai chi with both 7th & 8th graders, to work. Lunch, work, new project. A little bit for Lassu.

Listening to: Alaistair Galbraith, Tool, Eno, Thom Hartmann, DN!, Randi Rhodes, Buckethead, Rostropovich, Thomas Dolby, Tool, Rush, Eno

5:18 pm-Packing up for home. The usual last night. Library, shop, home, dinner, bed, read. One of the few show I watch is the Unit-exciting. Today-kids up, breakfast, to school, to work, wanted a change of scenery so I walked to the Starbucks on the corner, got a hazelnut misto (that’s what the guy called it). Worked a bit, walked back, had lunch with the family, showed off the baby. More work.

Listening to: Randi Rhodes, Starbucks radio, DN!, Thom Hartmann

Page 23, Sentence 5: “In a city that buried its rivers, he observes, “rain still falls. It has to go somewhere.” The World Without Us

5:00 pm-About to leave. Quiet day. Up, kids to school, t’ai chi, work, lunch. Four Arguments is awesome. Listening to podcasts of Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartmann. Peanuts from Polly’s are yummy.

Listening to: DN!, Randi Rhodes

4:55 pm-Getting ready to go home. Yesterday: church, Erika went to old church to show off the baby. Had breakfast at Hometown Buffet, Starbucks for my coffee thing-used sugarfree & it tasted metallic. Home, Costco. Back home, kids to bed, but it didn’t last, work, sleep. Up today, kids to school, work, lunch. Listening to lib radio podcasts. Put DB2 on one server-I had to download the Fedora DVD and go back to v6 to get the right libraries. Also got some music from the free folks.

11:08 pm-In bed watching the Daily Show. Came home, hung out with the kids and baby, grilled for Matt, cooked corn, kids to bed. Dinner, folded clothes, took out trash. The usual routine of my daily life. Four Arguments has a lot to say about this-preaching to the choir for me-I have a big dislike for the built world.

Listening to: Thom Hartmann, DN!, Randi Rhodes

Page 23, Sentence 5: “Could one be affecting the other?” Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

11:53 pm-In bed, tired, sore. Time to sleep. Quick recap before bed. It’s been a busy week, but nothing much different from the usual-boys, school, work, Salem is getting over her cold. Baby shower last Sunday. Parents came down. T’ai Chi Tuesday and Thursday. Went to the pool once. It’s been chilly and it sprinkled some. Fiddling with Fedora and failing hard disks at work. And…my mother-in-law moved today. I worked very hard. I cleared out the van last night, drove there after filling up with gas and getting coffee. Got there, started arranging things, filled up the van 4 times, lunch while working, went to Starbucks and got: grande Fair Trade medium roast French Pressed, 2 pumps Hazelnut, 3 pumps Cinnamon, steamed 1/2 & 1/2 to fill a venti cup. Yummy smelling and delicious. Polly’s to get peanuts and Earl Grey, drive home, seats back in, kids to bed, dinner, shower, paper, sore, sore, sore-1 big motrin. In bed, 1/2 watched TV. You’ve gotta read this and this.

Listening to: NPR, KCRW, KUCI

2:30 pm-Just back from lunch. Time to go get boys if Erika isn’t. OK. Recap: Thursday-Salem still has a cold and is keeping Erika up, and me a bit too. Boys to school, T’ai Chi, work, pick up boys, get dinner, home, swim, bed, late up. Today-up, shower, boys to school, work. I’m installing Fedora on 2 of my servers to try to get DB2 and Oracle for Linux going. It’s not so far.

Listening to: DN!

Listening to: DN!

12:10 pm-Try to jam this in while Firefox waits for the web. It’s been slow today. No worries. Been slacking on this as well-the cost of a new baby. To recap-Friday-Colin to school (Matt is sick), work, pick up kids, home. Saturday-laze, go to old church to help with setup for a comedy thing, back home, back to church to do sound. Everyone was very happy to see me. Sunday-church, Erika went, shop, home, baby has a cold, as do I. Monday-kids to school, work, Matt was whiny, pick up kids, home. Tuesday-kids to school, T’ai Chi, work, pick up kids, recycling, shop, back to work to get dinners, hang out, home, dinner, bed. Up today, kids to school, work. My life is SO exciting…

Listening to: DN!

Listening to: Eno, Genesis, Morphine, Leftover Salmon, Eno, Naturhorisiche Museum, Harold Budd, White Zombie, Pink Floyd, Karma Moffett, DN!, Todd Rundgren, Mozart, Eno, Residents, Conet, Gordon Hempton, Emil Klotsch, Yermi Kaplan, Mangkunegaran gamelan, Rage, Fripp, Stray Cats, Primus, Charlie Parker (for such a saxophone colossus, this is unbelievably twee), Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Legendary Pink Dots, Jos Kunst, Legendary Pink Dots, Brainscapes, Polyphonic Spree, gamelan, David Hudson, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Peter Gabriel, Echoes of Nature, Loren Nerell, Kodàly & Janàcek, Charles Mingus, Echoes of Nature,

10 ish?-Watching Iron Chef America. Today-boys to school, t’ai chi with 7th graders-one commented “he’s really teaching us”, Mathias has a bad cold so I brought him back home. Work, pick up Colin, home.Tired, short nap, dinner, bed.

Listening to: Jajouka, DN!, Foamy, HFI Web 2.0 seminar, Brahms, R.E.M., Steve Roach, Lou Harrison

9:28 pm-In bed, watching Criminal Minds. Whoopee. OK. Yesterday: t’ai chi with 7th graders-one asked why we were doing Karate. Hmmmmm. OK, we’ll see where this goes. So, work, pick up boys at 3, get gas, buy an algae eater fish. Home, dinner, bed. Shop later. Today-school, work, get boys at 1, home, lunch, swim. Go get pizza. Eat, boys to bed.

So, what’s been going on? Petraeus spouts the party line, the housing market is collapsing, cricket tourney, big Indonesian quake, a small one here last week, Ebola outbreak in the Congo, Zimbabwe is going down the tubes, are we going to war with Iran? I’ve been looking at multitrack tape recorders, and for work on Craigslist.

Listening to: Peter Gabriel, B-52’s, Jajouka, DN!, Elgar, Tori Amos