This was .... a hell of a year, really.

I left a job that was slowly killing me even though I had no fallback plan for it. I was more broke than I've ever been, getting by on ramen and peanut butter sandwiches. I put together a spiffy redesign of webmutant and starting shopping my resume around, and now I'm paid quite well at a job I really ( Read more... )

Oh, say, what day is it -- ? That's right, it's Tuesday. I haven't done this for months and months, but -- it's time once again for Tunes for Tuesday!

See, at the Fremont Fair, Torrey and Arthur and I were walking by the stage where We Wrote the Book on Connectors were playing, and we ended up turning right around, coming back, and staying ( Read more... )

Nice try, weather, but you're going to have to come up with at least a tornado if you think you're stopping me from seeing Van Halen tonight.

This past weekend was chock full of so much awesome. There was the Buffy musical on Friday -- I thought I'd totally blown it and missed my chance to get us tickets, since the website said they were sold out, but windbourne suggested we swing by the box office and make sure, so she and briara and I just squeaked in. (The ticket machine told me they had sold all ( Read more... )

There was this friend I had in college. I went to college early, as did he, part of the same program; we met there ( Read more... )

Wednesday night, at ursako's instigation, windbourne and I joined her at the Crocodile for their annual Cure cover night. As you may know, The Cure are pretty much my favorite band of all time, so I was thoroughly enjoying myself.
Then Jodie Watts took the stage. After a number or two, the lead singer looked out into the crowd and said:
"You know, we've got a ( Read more... )

Nineteen years ago: Vancouver, BC, was celebrating its centennial with a world's fair, Expo '86. I was there. So was she. We were from the same hometown, but we were still worlds away from each other, years away from meeting. But there are traces of our paths crossing, physical evidence; we each have a photograph of ourselves, unmet, but ( Read more... )

Just got back from The End's Deck the Hall Ball. Pretty damn entertaining. At this point, there are several events I really should go back and write about, but for once I think I'll go ahead and get this down while it's still fresh in my head.
Due to horrendous traffic, terrible rain, some poor last-minute ( Read more... )

Seems like windbourne and I are going to a lot of concerts lately. Okay, sure, we're getting "An Evening With The Cure" instead of the scheduled Curiosa festival, but we were mainly going for the sake of seeing The Cure anyway, and we had managed to score cheap tickets, too, so we're perfectly content. And besides, we're going to EndFestanyway, so we' ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of it this week.
Saturday I saw 01flux and had my first chance to have an actual conversation with her; that went well.
Wandered around my apartment Saturday night in an epiphanic state, what you ( Read more... )