• If you need a toilet, there's one on 38th St with a "Free! (it works)" sign attached.
• NgithOwl bossman already had swine flu, if only for a week.

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• 08:37 Wish I could do this (XKCD): ping.fm/OFrF9 Also like ping.fm/ymBjP
• 08:43 Drat. Here's the *correct* Mpls panhandling link: ping.fm/06Mf0
• 12:27 Pondering a surgical mask photoshoot this weekend, if I could talk anyone into it.

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What locals can I talk into doing a photo shoot with me this weekend? I want to get some flu pandemic shots--by which I mean ones with surgical masks in them.

Edited to add: Or maybe not. The two places I stopped at looking for surgical masks were sold out. Walgreens said they'd been sold out since Monday, and "won't be getting any more any time ( Read more... )

• 11:37 Are...You...ping.fm/Z5uXS
• 16:48 RT @pegkerr For fun, sub 'zombies' wherever you see 'economy': "It's a really lousy time to be looking for a job, what with the zombies."
• 23:10 XKCD also has opinions about, um, other's opinions about swineflu: ping.fm/J2Zhe

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• 11:10 Local law firms are laying off lawyers (at least 2 firms are clients). No wonder we've been having less business.
• 11:12 Oops. Link to news story re lawyers: ping.fm/jnnU4
• 16:23 It's been warm enough to open the back porch window for the cats. Reminded, they restlessly inspect all windows.
• 17:52 Anyone local want a coupon for a free 2-liter ( Read more... )

• 00:20 Now new monitor is working on desktop, and old monitor is working with laptop. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.
• 14:04 Pants ripped right below the seat. Fortunately, *after* church. Still went to Midtown Market for lunch/browsing. Fun morning!
• 14:35 It's with great pleasure that I fill in '0' for hours worked this weekend.
• 17:42 How long does ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Inauguration Day, I shifted to the couch downstairs and worked on my laptop (yay in-home wireless!) so that I could watch all the inauguration events. I worked on critiques and responding to critiques instead of new writing. I got less done than I usually would, but it's surprising I was able to get anything else done at all ( Read more... )

• 13:55 Working downstairs on my laptop so I can watch all the inauguration coverage on TV.
• 13:56 Statuary Hall is decidedly creepy. Just sayin'.
• 14:05 "The Color Purple" is a great book, but the idea of it as a musical is kinda horrifying.

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• 00:02 I am tired to the point of being very cranky about "having" to go to bed. Sigh--maybe I should read my inner 2-year-old a story.
• 12:19 Egyptologists collect all these artifacts--does that mean they'll be richest in the afterlife?
• 14:40 Was planning on working all day to make up hours--until was told I make too much to work on this project. :(
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• 09:23 Wait--it's not even really winter yet? Coulda fooled me.
• 09:39 MPR is reporting on its own layoffs. That's a bit surreal.
• 09:40 Sorry--*N*PR.
• 09:43 Puppy at work!
• 22:49 Have fingerprint bruises on my arm and leg. Ah, joint manipulation techniques.