Year: 2008

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Daily posting-9/22/2008

5:02 pm-Time to head home-tired. I need to get to bed at a reasonable time on weeknights. OK. The weekend-quiet Friday, Grotto, rock shop, fair dinner, Goodwill Sat., market, church, meeting, value Village, bedtime Sun. Up late today, school, work. Circling back on one cr, need to discuss another, new one pending approval. Reading a bunch of anarchist punk stuff.

Listening to: Democracy Now!, FSOL, Morphine, Tom Waits, Bach, Megadeth, Tom Waits, DN!

Page 19, Sentence 5: “That, of course, didn’t work.” Banner Wars

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2008/9/20

Watching Todd Rundgren in a club-he has an odd guitar with lots of necks and sympathetic strings running everywhere.
At a party, some guy is bugging me and following me around.

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Daily posting-9/19/2008

4:28 pm-All done for the day-got my cr finished and shipped off to peer. Work through the other bit. Yummy lunch-the pears we’re getting now are excellent. Not much else-home last night, Matt got a thing, to bed, up late. Up today, shower, to school, to work. Found out the data problem was unitialized, so I have to trust that it’s going to be OK.

Listening to: Democracy Now!

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2008/9/19

Walking around target, come to the kid’s place, there’s a ring, I step inside to fight.
Flying revs, Ron D is there-we get our lines tangles, work to get them fixed.
At 1023, some Christians come to the door. I talk to them.

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2008/9/18

A big tire on our car blows out. We go to a shop and they have it in stock. The guy starts putting it together. I go over and start on another one, unfolding it, but it’s the spare, so I stop.
At work, take some pencils and some guy sees me-I offer him some, then walk away. Go up an elevator, but don’t remember the floor, so I get off. Some other guys are jumping around and they get off on another floor. I go into a meeting room. The leader asks us who knows where the majority of the people in the company work. Others know, I don’t.

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Daily posting-9/17/2008

11:37 am-Blew this off yesterday-I’m going to try doing them at night… Up tired, kids to school, to work. Set up a wiki in Squeak for support notes. All the other wikis I tried were difficult to set up. Swiki was instantaneous-unzip, run, setup, done. Home, kids to bed, watering, dinner, bed. Up today, kids to school, to work, new cr.

Listening to: Democracy Now!

Page 12, Sentence 5 (I’m reading mini books from tangled…): “It means that you don’t have to be a part of a specific culture or group if you don’t want to.” Post-Civ!

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2008/9/16

In a pavilion sort of thing. Robert Fripp is here. I start doing t’ai chi, but I’m forgetting the moves. He gently corrects me.
Hanging out in an improvised recording studio in a room in a big house of some famous guy. I’m trying to get things going.
At home, the boys want to watch something on DVD. M comes over and sits on the couch. He breaks my copy of “All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis”. I’m rather upset.

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Daily posting-9/12/2008

1:16 pm-Waiting for an RFC to get approved so I can work on it before the end of the day-it HAS to go out today. I got paged at 5am to look at a slow running process. Everything looked OK, so I punted. Good thing-it just took a loooong time to complete. OK, so yesterday was: home, dinner, Erika meeting, kids to bed, computing, dinner. Up lateish. The boys woke up when I got paged, went back to sleep. Finished up as they woke up. To school, back home to get my phone and the thumbdrive. To work, check on things, set up for the thing for the RFC.

Listening to: Democracy Now!

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Daily posting-9/10/2008

9:47 am-Monday ended up with Costco, a school visitor working with Erika, up late. I have a cold and my back hurts. Tuesday-up, Erika took the kids to school, slept with the baby. Got up late, in late, had to go back home for the pager, offsite meeting, work, home. Matt got a rock tumbler. Dinner, kids to bed, to bed early for us! Up today, kids to school. Made quickie chicken soup for Matt.

5:27 pm-Time to go home. 2 meetings, got an entertainment book for cheap. Work, lunch, zines. Not much else. Need to scan in photos, more stuff. School meeting tonight.

Listening to: Democracy Now!

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Daily posting-9/8/2008

11:59 am-Sunday: church, home, Erika went to the market. I messed up my back. Dinner, kids to bed, sleeping baby, bed. Today: up at 7:30-yow! We got to school OK, back home to glue my car’s ceiling cloth. To work, more helping QA. Here’s more about Sarah Palin: she’s not a nice person. Big surprise there… McCain is gonna live to regret this choice. The fundie base loves her. The police at the RNC were nasty-preemptive raids, arresting journalists, etc.

Listening to: Democracy Now!

Page 23, Sentence 5: “Most of it is in the form of the life of Orlando, an immortal character who we date back to the 12th century BC in ancient Thebes.” Steampunk #3

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Daily posting-9/7/2008

1:10 am-In bed, computing, “Me” time to come. Friday-home, kids to bed, computing, late to me time. Slept in Sat., birthday at a local little amusement park. Generic Mexican for dinner, after visiting a nice herb shop. Then to a thrift store going out of business. Home, movie, baby, kids to bed, computing.

Page 23, Sentence 5: “”Yeah,” Yena muttered, “but never with an audience.”” Steampunk #1

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2008/9/7

In a hostel, walk around. Jump out of a helicopter onto water. Back to the room, go over to some office and talk to people about computers. Someone calls and asks about needing a lawyer. The lawyer in the group says no.

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2008/9/6

Going to Journey with Matt, it’s the old school, and Wood Canyon at that. We walk in, and there are planters with animals in them-a snake follows me and strikes at my pants. A teacher pulls it off and tells me it’s really poisonous. I see a Tasmanian devil, and the snake follows me and bites me on the hand. I rush to the office to call 911, but someone else is using the line (it’s a party line), I yell at them a bunch of times to hang up. Finally I call using my cellphone. I hear a driver tell the dispatcher he’s closer.

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Daily posting-9/5/2008

4:50 pm-End of the work day on Friday. Time to leave. Last night-home, grilling, dinner. Kids to bed, Erika cleaned the bedroom, computing, “What’s My Line”-the one after Fred Allen died. Up today, tired, kids to school, work. Helped QA, made up the Steampunk #4, got some online essays.

Listening to: KOPB, Democracy Now!

Page 23, Sentence 5: “Nothing beats having the right tools for the job.” Steampunk #2

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Daily posting-9/4/2008

9:42 am-At work, all caught up-nice to not have a ton of stuff to do. A few things, OK. Nice weekend-cleaned the house Saturday. Church, market, Salem’s party Sunday. Nice to see Denise and Mary, two church folk came, Christian from work with her daughter. Salem caught a cold. Monday was quiet too-downtown for an art festival. Getting ready for school. Tuesday-work, home, to bed early. Up Weds., to school, coffee, meeting, rose ceremony to welcome the first graders, breakfast, pick up Colin, home, pick up Matt, OMSI, home, bed, computing. Up today, to school, to work.

Listening to: KOPB

3:34 pm-Finished up the stuff I needed to do. Time to get more. OK. Worked on an issue I’ve had for awhile, but never enough info to track it down. Got the specific problem, tracked it down, fixed it, checked it in, moved it down the line. Looks like Colin has a cold now too.

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2008/9/4

Getting on a plane-have to climb in the back, even though it’s a huge one. Help people up because we’re late. It takes off, but instead goes through the streets. It stops, we get out.