Begin anecdote:
When I was nineteen, I worked for The Plano Star Courier doing paste-up and typesetting advertisements. Mostly, real estate ads. You know the kind — little picture of a house above a little blurb about … Read more
ancient history
I change my mind about being warm.
Now I’m too warm. It’s around 96° — with no air conditioning!
At this very moment, it is around 68° in Dallas.
And it’s — no kidding here — 91° at the house in El Cerrito. WTF is up with that? Still, it’s kinda nice to just be warm.
Done deal.
We’re having our stuff shipped in from Dallas. It will be here on 28 September. And that’s it. No more stuff in storage. We’ll have all of our things back. Wow.
Bits and pieces.
One, I got carded earlier today… for lottery tickets! I haven’t been carded for beer in months, but for lottery tickets? Gimme a freaking break! Two, I had a full-fledged panic attack earlier. When we … Read more
Nice to see the weather is slightly less miserable in Dallas.
About to go home for the day, and help Jenna pack for her three-week trip to Munich. Her first time out of the country, and she is a nervous (but excited) wreck! It will be … Read more
Oh, my.
Just put a reference to a Sybian in your blog, and suddenly everyone’s Googling you.
“I fear that I am ordinary, just like everyone.”
Or should I pick a different Smashing Pumpkins line? That one comforts me so… I do think that I am ordinary, though “my life has been extraordinary, blessed and cursed and won.” Mellon Collie’s been … Read more
You doing anything good for the holiday?
Define good. Tomorrow, I get my hair done — a multi-hour process… But after that, I’m relatively free. K&J have found a great place up in Kensington, and they might need some help moving at … Read more
Little known fact about me.
When I was in high school — before I got involved in theater, so 9th-10th grade timeframe — I really really wanted to design fonts. I loved fonts. Loved them. I could sit and wade … Read more
A little bit better today.
I got some okay work done yesterday, and I think that — even though I felt like nothing I was working on at that moment (non-Evil stuff) was going to be useful — it’s valuable … Read more