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About a month ago, I jumped on the bandwagon and signed up for a Dreamwidth account as a backup for my LiveJournal. I don't write there much at all anymore, but I did for years and don't want to lose any of it. But now I have something I wanted to write about that doesn't really fit my WordPress format (as loosely defined as that may be), so here ( Read more... )

We actually had something to do on both Saturday and Sunday, which is kind of unusual. On Saturday, I had to go to Flushing Meadows to take a civil service test for Paralegal Aide positions. I'm not sure how well I did, as it seemed a little more difficult than most such tests. Afterwards, I met up with Beth to visit the Queens Botanical Garden, ( Read more... )

I still haven't found work, and I still spend most of my time at home on the computer, as you've probably guessed. I've also been suffering from allergies, which apparently are really bad for everyone this year. And I've been seeing quite a few cats wandering around Brooklyn, and while most of them are scared of people, a few will come up to us. Do ( Read more... )

I wish the band that appeared in my dream had been real. I don't remember much about their music, but they were a pretty obscure novelty band that mixed elements from real bands I liked, and I was listening to some material of theirs that had only been released on cassette. The volume was very uneven, sometimes really loud and other times really ( Read more... )

I'm pretty close to being finished with my edit/rewrite of an Oz manuscript I've been working on for almost twenty years. My working title is The Giant Rabbit of Oz, because Wag from Kabumpo in Oz is a character in it, but he turned out to be not all that major. I might well end up going with another title. Anyway, I wasn't satisfied with the ( Read more... )

Today, bethje and I saw They Might Be Giants at an in-store that wasn't technically in a store. It was at Princeton Record Exchange, but since the store building couldn't really accommodate a concert, they played in a tent in a nearby commons outside the public library. The sound wasn't really loud enough, but it was a pretty good show. According to not_glimmer, ( Read more... )

Last night's was the fourth Simpsons episode to take an extended look into a possible future for the characters, the first one being the sixth season "Lisa's Wedding," which took place in the year 2010. I don't think the writers had any idea that the show would still be on then. Anyway, I think this new one tried to cram too much in, and even ( Read more... )

So no one is interested in seeing me review Nintendo-related media? I get it. My interests ARE pretty lame, aren't they? And speaking of reviews, I don't know that I'm going to write full reviews of the new Simpsons episodes this season. It was getting a little tedious to do so, and when something you do purely for fun starts to become a chore ( Read more... )

Last night, bethje and I went to Asbury Park to see They Might Be Giants at the Stone Pony. ( There are pictures and such in here, so I'm putting my write-up behind a cut. )