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Somewhat more than a year ago, a co-worker was leaving, and Rudy’s Cafe was proposed as the farewell lunch destination. I was way psyched, probably because the cod tacos sounded somewhat like the catfish tacos that Polly’s Cafe used to serve — one of my all-time favorites. We wound up going to Redbones instead. For […]

We were literally calculating an initial offer to make on the condo we’ve liked best so far, and late last night it suddenly went inactive on all the real estate web sites. I had a dream that at 3:21 am the property went back on the market. I woke up from the dream and it […]

We’ve been watching One Punk Under God, a documentary series (with reality show-style editing) about Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye of PTL Club fame/infamy. It’s been more interesting than I would have guessed (although, predictably, I think it could use more punk content). The sequence we watched last night, in which Bakker […]

Yesterday’s weather wasn’t like weather so much as like weather special effects. We got mmmmaybe a quarter inch of snow total, but it all came down in two five minute mini-blizzard bursts — with sunshine and puffy clouds in between. (And the second snow was pretty much scoured away by fierce overnight winds — the […]

Buy nothing days:
January:7 (1, 5, 17, 18, 21, 25, 27)
February:5 (3, 8, 10, 11, 28)
Full-on sushi:
February: 1
Donuts:
February: 1

Surprisingly musical! Reminded me of both Copying Machine Music and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers. Two scanning routines were reminiscent of the bridge of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” — the end, right before Moon’s two massive fills and Daltrey’s epic scream. The best section had one head (presumably) making a witchita-witchita sort of noise at […]

This worked pretty well for halloween candy, so let’s try it again, shall we?

I will start no more than two on-line Boggle sessions a day (one a.m., one p.m.)
I will quit as soon as I get a score that’s better than “Gold.”

I’ve never been terribly into formulating resolutions at New Year’s per se, but I do set goals throughout the year. Here is some of what I tried to do last year.
Eliminate my bad debt
This is a strange thing to be proud of, since I only had to do it because I exercised poor judgment in […]