I decided to go ahead and add one of these to my journal for when I meet new people in real life and for when new internet people add this journal as a friend. My name is A. Horton and I'm married to nyquil_baby, who I met on the Magnetic Fields discussion list in 1999. We live in Chicago with our cat, Squeemu, and several tons of books and recording ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! Due to a bunch of weird last-minute developments, we're actually going to start moving TONIGHT at around 9 pm or so. Though we were able to get movers to come tomorrow afternoon, we're going to try to move as much light stuff tonight as possible so as to get it out of the way and to make the movers more efficient and so on. By light ( Read more... )

If anyone's interested in going to Chicago Comics sometime this afternoon, leave a comment here. I don't really need to go, but it's the one thing that I feel like doing/the one place that I feel like going other than just hanging at home and doing nothing. Me and Coughman were going to go yesterday, but then we realized there was a Cubs game and ( Read more... )

Before I buy tickets - does anyone else want to go see

Thurs 9/27 - PERE UBU
Fri 9/28 - Excepter

with me at the Empty Bottle as part of their Wire music showcase thing? I want to buy tix tonight or tomorrow. $15 per.

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Hooray, three-day weekend! I don't have to work Monday because of a schedule shuffle we're doing, and then I have next Monday off for Labor Day Memorial Day Labor Day. I've found that my own personal autism (among many other weirdnesses) is that whenever I get unaccounted for free time, like an unexpected day off, I become paralyzed with a sort of ( Read more... )

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One of my current thematic "kicks" is reading about and thinking about and reliving via emulator the heyday of personal computer use, which is "the first half of the eighties" and is mostly centered around the ubiquitous Apple ][ home computer. This includes a lot of reading about people like Richard Garriot and Ken and Roberta Williams, as I ( Read more... )

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