Year: 2012

And I drove to the train station to avoid the rain. No matter. Well, maybe there’ll be rain tomorrow.
The weekend was pretty good-got to sleep in a bit both days. Didn’t do much Sat.-cooked buffalo wings, drove M to a school dance-he had a great costume as a zombie chef.
Sunday was the state cross country championships. It was rainy. M bettered his time by a minute-he’s done that all season. PWS took first & 2nd in the boy’s race, 5th in the team standings.
We went to lunch afterwards & shopping, lazed around the house.
Erika should get her new iPhone today. Correction: tomorrow-just checked the FedEx website.

Links: Why I’m Voting Green, Progressive vs. Regressive, Keeping Calm and Carrying On, Who Owns the World?, How Fox News Created a New Culture of Idiots

…except for the at home part. Actually, I like it, but it’s hard to be productive with a squirmy little girl wanting to play. That and no one respecting my need to work. Oh whell.
We have a show on Nov 10th-if you’re in Portland, please come: From Indonesia to Portland
Pretty mellow day-a bit rainy, cleaned up the kitchen last night, won at Go against level 2 on the way home, reading more Steiner.
Had to pick up C at school, M at cross-country-gave Jill D, Nancy and the school a gamelan card and poster. Need to take S to the PWS Kindy Lantern Walk-it was very nice. Now time to hang out and eat, plus rum & Coke.

The link farm: Lies of Plutocracy, The Making of the American 99 Percent

Page 23, Sentence 5: “It is a certain service-and even such things as these may now be openly mentioned-that has been undertaken by this Kurt Eisner in the publication of these things, a service by one who has come in a strange way out of prison to the post of premier.” The Challenge of the Times

…and it’s raining. But only a little, which is the true nature of Portland rain. Which probably shouldn’t be called rain, though it does rain here, and hail.
It actually wasn’t raining when I walked to and from the train, which was nice. Cold, though. I like it-if you dress right.
Last night was gamelan practice-I completely messed up one bit, but the rest was pretty good. I’m feeling pretty close to ready, though more practice is always better. I’d like to rely less on written, and hitting the slowdowns right. And as always, pacing at the start-I’ve never been good at that.
Almost time to go-the nice thing about getting up at 5:30 and taking the train is leaving early-even though I still get home at about the same time as before.

It’s been a busy 2 days-M has been in Seattle with Erika on a school field trip to the King Tut exhibit. I got to take care of C & S. No problems, but it means busyness.
The weekend was uneventful, we’re out of cash, so no excitement-cleaned up a bit, church Sunday & get stuff out for the trip. Worked at home Monday, picked up C, back home & cooked dinner.
Up early today to get the kids to the dentist, got my teeth cleaned, watched a bit of Despicable Me, took C & S to school. Forgot my phone at the dentist’s. Starbucks, back home, worked, picked up C, S, shopped. Back home, cooked dinner, Erika & M back with presents.
One link: The Progressive Struggle to Save Capitalism, but this is interesting for me as a UI guy: The Immersive Web And Design Writing

I’ll let you decide. This one’s been about a year.
It’s been rather busy, with some changes. Erika’s mom died in the spring, we moved our office to Beaverton in August and I’m taking the train 3 days a week. I’ve lost some weight, am walking to and from the train, and standing at work and exercising there too. The office has a lot of food in the kitchen, so I don’t make breakfast or lunch at home-too bad, I liked the rice & oatmeal. There’s also an espresso machine, so lattes every morning. I also got a bread machine which I use a lot-I’ve made pizza dough and pretzels in addition to bread like 3 times a week.
The kids are great-Mathias is reading with a Kindle, Colin is a Minecraft wizard and Salem is a cutie and growing fast. Erika is struggling, but not going backwards.
Still working through Steiner, there’s been some progress, but I’m not sure I have a good program-I have a nice solid foundation and some insights that might be useful. I have a cheap tablet and read and play backgammon and go on the train. I wiped my iPod, so there’s that. Work is work, same job. Gamelan is hectic-concert early November, new pieces, and a few that we’ll learn the week of the concert. Daunting.
Money is short, but that’s nothing new. Church is church-I’m ushering once a month and sitting on a new website. I’d like to fix the sound system.
Politics is as it’s been-I’m tired of commenting on it. I don’t use Twitter or Facebook much anymore.
That’s about it-I don’t know if I’ll keep this up or not. We’ll see.