For those of you with your heads in the sand, cfox74 and I are planning a wedding. I'm almost certainly going to post about it. Wedding planning is a topic that tends to overwhelm those other than the soliloquizing, oblivious miscreants currently engaged (ha!) in the pursuit ( Read more... )

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...and written by John Denver. How apropos.

First the answers to the riddle:
Barry Manilow "Copacabana" Astrud Gilberto "The Girl from Ipanema" a bit of Duran Duran "Rio" Geoff & Maria Muldaur "Aquarela do Brasil" Peter, Paul, & Mary "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
(Ok, Barry was ( Read more... )

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Ok, yesterday was an anniversary. And every year it's something different. Yesterday, I spent the day just a huge ball of misplaced emotion, some of which ended up in a rant in this space. Fortunately, I deleted the specifics of it.

In response, here are some good things about the ( Read more... )

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I should go back and count the number of times I've written this entry in one form or another. On the other hand, it would probably just depress me.

I have a whole bunch of entries rolling around in my head (and opening my blog stash file I found a few more), friends have posted ( Read more... )

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. . . Ok, not really

[ed.: per usual, I started writing this over a week (and a half, I think) ago. I know, ( Read more... )

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Note: This was actually written last week, but there were issues posting it. I should also compose a wrap-up of this weekend (and perhaps I will on the train)

[...It would appear that this has devolved into a recap of the ( Read more... )

I just noticed a bunch of people have added me as LJ friends in the who-knows-how-long timeframe. I don't know why LJ doesn't inform me of that event. (Ok, the new "My LJ" page might have some indicator, but I never use it) I don't have time to actively poll my user profile page (or the Edit Friends page). I should write a script to do it nightly ( Read more... )

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Not so good this morning. I missed not one, but two trains looking for my %$#@%$ing shoes. This is why I hate cleaning up. The next train didn't stop at 22nd St, so I booked it to 4th & King. I made it with plenty of time, so at least that was good.

A bunch of bikes got on with me ( Read more... )

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Yesterday hit me harder than it has in recent years. I ended up stepping out of the office and just bawling for while. This lead to a catharsis stronger than I have felt in a VERY long time.

It also posed a bit of a dilemma. I realized that sitting home in the dark, sipping Oban ( Read more... )

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[It's official. I suck at this whole "blog" thing. The genesis for ( Read more... )