I rented a carpet cleaner yesterday and took care of the entrenched stains with Dr. Bronner's Eucalyptus Soap. I've been in this condominium for a decade now, and this was the first time I've cleaned the carpet. It was getting decrepit, to say the least. O.K., I'd let it go, with two cats and all but sometimes you just have to roll up your ( Read more... )

Wherein there are several anti-Socialism floats, but no Socialism floats.


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Despite the local CableOne tech telling me one morning that Tor wasn't a problem and that bandwidth wasn't an issue (especially between midnight and noon), that afternoon I came home after work to a nasty DMCA take-down notice and a frozen ISP account. I could receive mail, but that was it, and so perforce had to deal with the sanction by phone... ( Read more... )

After viewing Neda's death throes, just once, I bit the bullet and set Tor to full-fledged exit node.

Bicycled to Garden City on the Greenbelt and back on this, the first full, rather cool day of summer.

I've been bouncing around like a ball in a pinball machine on the highlift at work, so I was more than ready to give The Hole its sendoff Friday Night. The artwork is such a great piece of local color, and such a good mural, that the landlord is keeping it until such time as a new tenant wants it painted over.


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More than a few people person have been getting ticked off at King Charles at work lately. Yesterday Biker Chick told me that, among other things, that he just smells rank! Apparently this is quite a ways beyond "funky," and not the good kind of funky, either ( Read more... )

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Christ is risen, but I didn't rise in time to make it to St. Michael's without rushing, so I lit some myrrh incense & put on some Gregorian chants. Soon I shall be taking photographs of blossoms and eating lamb with my parents.

Working backwards chronologically, I selected some more photos as favorites on Flickr (May This House Be Safe From ( Read more... )

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Blossoms have abruptly appeared en masse, the trees suddenly festooned with watercolor brush impressions.

Interviewed with ANA; I'll be tutoring English. Shock-horror.

A college buddy got in touch via Facebook. Good times, good times...