My exciting life, this place
3:26 pm-Leaving early-drove mom to airport too early, to work, *$, tired. Kitties are cute-to the Bomber last night, to bed early.
Listening to: DN!David Byrne, Gordon Hempton, Akashic Crow’s Nest, EBN, Starship, X, Eno, Puccini, Santo Domingo Monks, Aaron Lewis, Brand X, Eno, Glass, King Crimson, (ESZV), Bauhaus, Schubert, Echoes of Nature, Puccini, DN, R.E.M., Century of Aeroplanes, Genesis, TMBG, Pink Floyd
4:43 pm-Ending my work day-finishing up writing a CR. Trying to get this pesky query working-it keeps timing out on rollback segments, or it only returns 55 rows. Got the first tape taped.
Listening to: DN!
5:05 pm-Time to go home-not much happening. Trying to rev up after Christmas. Weekend was pretty quiet-hang out Sat., church Sun., that’s about it. it’s been rainy-most of the snow is gone.
Listening to: Bardo Thodol
2:23 pm-At work-again, I’m the only one here. I worked from home Christmas Eve after seeing the 2 hour delay on the freeways as they cleared off the bumps and ridges. Better to work from home. Today was smooth sailing-except for getting in the parking lot here. OK. Tues PM-looong drive home over the ruts-theere was a foot-high ridge coming off the bridge at the Tualatin river-everyone was crawling over it. Home, kids to bed, made a bike. Weds., home, work, play with kids, last minute Xmas shopping, Erika got mom, I made the 2nd bike. Matt saw mom but was OK with it. Up at 7 Thurs.-not bad. Opened presents, sledded, ate, hung out, super, super tired, to bed. Up, ate, to work, work.
Listening to: Bardo Thodol
12:06 pm-At work-it’s snowing a little. Worked from home yesterday. I took me awhile to dig out my car and clear a path to the street. The power went out once. Sledded with the boys some. Another snowy weekend. Went out Sunday-started out as freezing rain, ended up as heavy snow. We had 8 inches of snow, 1/4 inch of ice, 6 inches of snow on top of that. They’re saying it’s a 40 year storm. Power has only been out twice, which isn’t bad. The streets are quite bad-ice with chain ridges, ice bumps. Sometimes the path is over the edge, which I don’t like. I can manage, but it’s slow going.
Listening to: nothing-the roads are so bad I really need to concentrate.
10:52 am-At work-it’s starting to snow, again. Kids to school, snow last night, a bit slippery on the way up the hill. Once I was on the main streets, it was an easy drive here. Finished up yesterday-cold here, gas, storage, home. The usual. I’m glad it’s Friday. It is SO tough to go to bed at 1 and get up at 7.
Listening to: DN!, Bjork, Deben Bhattacharya, Drepung Kehor Khangtsen, Peter Gabriel, Marsudi Raras, DN!
10:43 am-At work-it’s starting to snow. Kids to school, easy drive here. Worked from home yesterday. It wasn’t as bad as they predicted.
Listening to: Glass, Firehose, radiohead, Residents, Harold Budd, Diamanda Galas, DN!
3:27 pm-Time to go home-early because of the nasty conditions. Busy this weekend-snowstorm, no church, day off Monday. Fun in the snow, cleared a frozen outside faucet. Time to go before it gets worse.
Listening to: KBOO-Interview with Bruce Bickford!
5:01 pm-Thursday work is over-finishing up another bit of the cron->oracle bit. Not much else-chili for lunch, hard to stay asleep last night. Back is still sore. Connected with someone from college.
Listening to: Dreams of Gaia, Cage, Dennis Brown, Debussy, Deftones, Gentle Giant
5:21 pm-Another day-not much happening. Finished up 2 CR’s. Time to go home and have chili. Keeping the kitchen clean, trying for the rest, too. The boys are cooperating. Work, school, home.
Listening to: gamelan, mystified, gamelan, Nick Cave, Zappa, Mickey Hart, King Crimson, Schubert, Can, TMBG, Gordon Hempton, Vangelis, Eno, Cream, Dreams of Gaia
Waiting in line to get into a Blue Cafe side stage. They’re not letting laptops, etc., because of liability. I get in and find a seat at the bar.
Listening to: Burning from the Inside, Ravi Shankar, Kate Bush, Rage, London, Residents, Laurie Anderson, Tchaikovsky, Residents, resfilter, Mozart, FSOL, Hawkwind, TMBG, R.E.M., Laurie Anderson, Art of Noise, Echoes of Nature, ???LFFN, Rage, Oregon, Gentle Giant, Gabriel, Debussy, Lili de la Mora, Roger Eno, Aaron Lewis, gamelan
5:22 pm-End of Monday-pretty quiet. Not much happening this weekend-home, church, got a christmas tree. Erika went to a craft fair and I stayed home with the kids. Time to go.
Listening to: DN!, Babe the Blue Ox, Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Brahms, EBN, spoonphase, Rage, Mystified, Bulgarian, Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Walking along a stream of lava. It starts cracking so we run and jump back to solid ground.
In a large nightclub-Widespread Panic is performing for vets. I stand right next to the speakers stage left. There are only a few, but WP put more. Steve Lantner comes over, mad because I making the speakers not work. I walk backstage and watch the band play, them walk out-it’s morning and I go to my tent to pack up and leave. I get out, ready to go to the airport or a hotel, but I don’t have any English money. I ask a few friends if they do.
Listening to: DN!, Pink Floyd, Legendary Pink Dots, Laurie Anderson, Brainsaw, Joy Division, The National, Steve Reich, Glass, Tom Tom Club, Grateful Dead, Genesis, System of a Down, Conet, Hilliard Ensemble, DN!
11:45 am-Quickly-not much-working on inventory. Concert was nice last night-got shakes for the boys afterwards. Still not getting to bed ’til late. Picking up music from free albums galore. A really loud printer is buzzing close by-annoying.
Listening to: DN!, Tchaikovsky, Rage, FSOL, Sigur Ros, Eno, Emil Klotsch, Mark Hamm, Latin Playboys, Underworld, Negativland, Bach, Peter Gabriel, Hardo Budoyo, Eno/Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Babe the Blue Ox, Hildegard von Bingen, Rage, Babe the Blue Ox, Mystified, aodl, some techno thing, Residents, Sigur Ros, Yes
4:42 pm-Leaving early-concert at school. The usual day-see yesterday.
Listening to: DN!, Eno/Byrne, Mickey Hart, Oregon, Enya, Bow Wow Wow, Tom Waits
5:06 pm-Leaving a bit earlier-working on executing oracle as part of this cron thing. Trying to get my laptop able to access work. Not much else-the boys had trouble sleeping again last night, as did I-I woke up at 7:30 because Matt came in to wake me up. Last night was the usual, a round of Risk, bed, dinner, bed late. Up today, kids to school, to work. That’s it. More networking on LinkedIn.
Listening to: DN!, Residents, Rage (there was a perfect cut between these), Tom Waits, DN!
In a caravan going into SF. I lose my ride and hang onto the outside of a station wagon-fooling with a small metal ball in the window. The car starts to veer off and I jump off. We’re in a nice part of town. I start looking for another ride.
5:33 pm-Going home-listening to a lot of Veruca Salt live on YouTube-from 1995-yummy. They were new then, and sweet rockers-talented but unskilled in the best tradition of punk. OK. Not much going on-Fri. was a visit to the zoo and Tebo’s afterwards. Sat was cleaning and yardwork, landlord visited. No church Sun.-played Risk with the boys, clothes. Boys had trouble getting to sleep. Up today, boys to school, to work, work, lunch, work.
Listening to: DN!, Arcade Fire, War, SRV, Bardo Thodol, Rage, Veruca Salt (mmmm)