Putting my May schedule here for your amusement and my convenience ( Read more... )

My birthday is next Friday. I like celebrating my birthday, but I don't like going out to restaurants/movies/etc on Fridays because everyone else is out there and I'm avoiding them. I was thinking of celebrating on Sunday by going to Flann O'Brien's for brunch, but we will have a new foster puppy then and everything is going to require 2 extra ( Read more... )

So last Friday we tested to see if my laptop is one of those ones that works faster with the electronics immersed in coffee, but it was not to be. So I'm updating from work, and doing most of my internet via phone. So the main thing I use my computer for--uploading pics and sharing them on livejournal--is on hold for the time being ( Read more... )

I'm encountering some resistance in my own ability to be creative. I'm mostly talking about this blog, but also in other parts of my life. I want to have been creative, but I don't want to muster the energy to be creative ( Read more... )

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Okay, I've found just about every possible way to procrastinate, now my life is taking over for me. I can't record the podcast tonight (friend coming over), tomorrow through Saturday (events happening kind of constantly), and I want to be fresh and loquacious for this thing (he means caffeinated). If I say it here then I can't go back on it without ( Read more... )

I've lost some enthusiasm for my livejournal projects, I think. Maybe it was the break during vacation, or how busy my life in meatspace is about to become/is becoming. Maybe I've lost my mojo ( Read more... )

This is setting up to be a tremendously horrible day. NO! A little perspective: the family is healthy, the dogs are healthy, the friends are mostly healthy. It's just the goddamned car, which, after 3 short years of it being in my life, has somehow become something i can't do without. I'd switch back to riding my bike right now, but it's not in ( Read more... )

For some reason I didn't notice until just now that the Portland Zoo insect keeper job is a temporary (May-September) position only. It would be idiotic to leave my wife for a year for a temporary job (considering that it would be pretty hard to get another one at the end of it) so I'm going to let my anxiety about writing a cover letter go. That ( Read more... )

This was never going to be an easy day, but if I don't find my car keys somewhere in the 4 acre dog park where I dropped them, it's going to be a royal pain in the ass.  There's somehow getting to work, being horribly busy at work, then somehow getting home, then the expected lines at the voting places, then there's the fact that I bought beer and ( Read more... )