Find a guy Ben from college on Facebook, and his brother. Chat about it. Talk about what he’s doing (running a business back East) and some guy talks about prorated charges and he’s in the same business.
2009/1/31
At a hotel-some convention and contest going on. I’m part of both.My parents are here and expecting to see me during it all. I wander through the crowds. Have to go to a meeting and quick over to the contest, which is over. Look at winnings, up to the elevator-push 6 and it’s locked. Many people-get out on 5 to look for parents. All around the floor, through classrooms-find them. Mom doesn’t let me in-I wait in the hallway.
A New Direction?
I really am a huge fan of Democracy Now!, but this week has been spectacularly good.
David Korten is writing great books. In this interview he outlines where things need to go to turn the problems we have around.
William Greider writes good stuff too. In this interview he does much the same as Korten does.
Read through the transcripts or listen to the interviews. We need lots of people to be aware that there are alternatives to the stale old economic policies that got us into this mess.
We also need the people in the new administration to listen too.
Reading-On the Road: The Original Scroll
Daily posting-1/30/2009
10:16 am-I’m finally getting around to the ’08 electoral maps.
The state-by-state map-Obama took the west, northeast tier, and made inroads in the South and Midwest.
The second is a county by county breakdown, which is a bit more revealing-it shows that Democratic voting is clustered in largely urban areas, all over the country. This time there was a bit more penetration into rural counties, central and the South.
The third is the county by county, but shaded so that the actual vote tallies, red vs blue, run along a spectrum based on percent of red vs blue.
This is much, much more revealing, and shows that the scale has tipped in favor of Obama across the board. There are very few places that weren’t fairly evenly divided Reps vs Dems. This makes for a purple map, rather than a red vs blue map.
Finally there’s the cartogram. This map has each county’s size changed to reflect the population of that county. This distorts the U.S. map to look something like some odd bird or a fish. Solid GOP is in very few places-much more solid Dem this time.
1:20 pm-Going home early-I’m sick. Finished up unit testing one bit, waiting on a response. Not much else-home, dinner, to bed. Up, kids to school, to work.
Listening to: DN!, Zappa
Daily posting-1/29/2009
5:29 pm-Time to go-pretty good-day-got some work done, had a chat with a guy, also looks like I might have a web thing on the side. OK, Tuesday ended quietly-up late, paged early. A nothing thing. Kids to school, work, sent in tuition thing, a lunch/party at a co-worker’s, meeting, back, pet store, home. Baby fussed ’til she barfed, no pages, up today, kids to school, to work. (do I sound like a broken record?) Work, lunch, work. I culled a few of my pop CD’s and reprinted binder covers.
Listening to: DN!, TR-i, Gentle Giant (my plod is glitching, so I have no history)
2009/1/29
At an amusement park. Go on one last ride before the park closes. Get locked in. Try to get out-finally get our stuff over a fence. Roger C and some guys come over-we hide in a bathroom. They leave and some girls come to open up.
2009/1/28
At school, choosing bunks, only two good ones, and they’re taken. Get one, have to argue because someone else wants it.
At work, Tom P is in the parking lot working on detecting the mood of grapes-he puts sensors in a particular grape. I walk around looking at the experiment.
Daily posting-1/27/2009
5:20 pm-Time to go home, got another task to do, in addition to the longer term project. Not much else-got pizza last night, home, ate, computing-grub on all key drives, shower, TV, slept with Matt, but the baby wasn’t up all night. Up in good time, to school, work. Work, lunch, work. Getting going on key drives. Progress, but slowly. Not much else-need to post a blog on mySpace about DN! yesterday-very good.
Listening to: DN!, Genesis, Djinnestan, kebyar
Daily posting-1/26/2009
5:00 pm-Monday. Tired. No sleep last night-baby has RSV. Home Fri-Matt’s birthday-got him a book and and RC helicopter. TV, bed. Slept in, Hometown Buffet, shopping-got a glass for work. Went to library w/Matt, CD’s, coffee. Home, TV. Baby got sick, church for me and the boys, home, batteries-play w/helicopter. Bed, Salem didn’t sleep well, so I was up too. Up, kids to school, to work.
Listening to: DN!
Daily posting-1/23/2009
5:07 pm-Friday work is ovah! Yesterday-home, Matt got a bowling pin from the alley, dinner, kids to bed, hang out, to bed, up suddenly at 7:30, kids to school, to work, SSC, Fry’s, CostCo. Work, lunch, work. Starting on getting test data together. I think I have a handle on the thumb drive OS thing now-multiboot. Listening to DN!
Listening to: DN!, Eno, Charlie Parker, DN!, Legendary Pink Dots, Lee Adams, loom
2009/1/23
Erika’s driving-we’re trying to find a school. I look at the map and get confused. We go into a city-it’s snowy and she’s going too fast. I stick my feet over the front to help stop. We talk about where to go and stop at an office. Go in, talk to a guy then a lady. I start looking at the map and can’t find it. I look through the pictures and it’s time to go. Some lady points out a ferret family. We leave.
Daily posting-1/22/2009
4:51 pm-Here we are, another work day over. They’re closing the warehouse, which is why we’re moving back to the other office. And why a lot of other things have been happening. OK. So we had a meeting, and we couldn’t come back here until they had told everyone who worked here. So we went to Fry’s and I got new earphones and 2memory chips. A few more to get-I’m trying to make a whole bunch of bootable key drives with different OSes on them. It’s going to be a lot of work. Our new camera needs one too. Not much else-to home yesterday, Erika meeting, kids to bed, watching Whatever, Martha with the baby. Matt had a hard time getting to sleep. Up today, to school, to work. Meeting, lunch, Fry’s, work. Matt had his birthday party at the local bowling alley. If I was still at Quest I could’ve gone. No matter. I need to work more substance back into these posts.
Listening to: DN!
2009/1/22
Al B is driving a huge car-it’s all over the road. The steering wheel comes off.
Driving, come to a jam, try to go around. There’s lots of cops around-something going on.
Daily posting-1/21/2009
4:57 pm-Wednesday work is now over. I’m sure I have the long query done, but the ticketing system we use has another one cocked up. OK. Yesterday-drive, library-got a few cd’s-home, dinner, kids to bed. Up late. Up today, late to school. To work, work, lunch, work. Obama is now president-we’ll see what happens now.
Listening to: DN!
Page 23, Sentence 5: “There is nothing to do but write the truth.”
2009/1/21
Driving through a curve, me and this girl compare our paths-she had to avoid a Volvo coming the other way. There are odd curves on the diagram-it got traced on a window with bumps on it.
Play Yahtzee-first turn-I ask advice on how to pick the right group.
Daily posting-1/20/2009
5:12 pm-Time to go home-worked on gathering queries and other research. I think I have the long query cracked. Chatting about politics on facebook. Yesterday-home, dinner, Matt is sick, bed, up, school, work, lunch, work. Time to go to the library and get a library card.
Listening to: DN!, Eno
Daily posting-1/19/2009
5:28 pm-Monday is over-time to go home. Too much coffee. OK. So the weekend was quiet. Costco & home Fri., sleep in, downtown to a yummy lunch, Powell’s, Goodwill, home, Prince Caspian. Church Sun-we’re members now. Lunch, library, movie and lazy. Up late today, Matt has a cold. Work, lunch, time to leave.
Listening to: Bardo Thodol
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Really?” Distraction
2009/1/19
Walking around with some guy inside the walls of a building, showing him that there’s more to a house. I think how easy it would be to get stuck.
At a campsite. Start to set up kites, it starts to rain, get underneath a tarp, then go to retrieve my stuff from the rain.
2009/1/18
In the military, watching a huge project, assembling a flat thing with many squares and moving it. Taking it apart, I go down and get a corner piece. Take it to the temp depot to register it but I don’t have ID. Go to my locker, go to another locker, realize I have it on my badge. Go back to another locker Steff E is there, I open her daughter’s locker We chat-I close the locker and go back and the depot is being dismantled. I’m in trouble and the CO is too.
2009/1/17
In a big house, sprinklers go off. Wiping up the walls. Joseph D is talking to Courtney Love-she shows her chest and panties. Asks him to do some recording thing with his phone. He leaves. I have to get his stuff off the couch.
In a hotel Go through the halls to a room-naked girls are inside-I can’t stay because parents are there and it’s girls only.
Skiing, hard to control-some RC thing-go up a chair lift.