The memorial for Merle_ is going to be :
Saturday May 25, 2013
noon
at The Mystic Dream
1437 N. Broadway
Walnut Creek, CA

If you cannot attend but wish to honor his memory, he would have requested that you do something that he would have enjoyed. Merle_ was not one with strong ties to ritual or tradition.

[not merle_ posting]

merle_ passed away. He was found by the police on Monday May 13, 2013 after his wife called to say he was missing. He died at home, in his new apartment, apparently while sleeping peacefully ( Read more... )

In the computer parts box there is OS/2 v3, which promises to give blazing fast 32-bit performance even in low memory environments with just 4M. The doubling in eighteen months rule is still in full force. I look forward to expecting Exabyte hard drives before official retirement age.
There is also my first MP3 player, a Rio 300, complete with ( Read more... )

The movers arrived, so as well as nine bags of books I have 37 boxes. And a queen bed (man, they're huge!), four tall solid wood shelves, a large flat computer desk and less-flat chair, nice speakers, and.. well, months of sorting and dusting. It feels more and more like home, albeit a home haunted by millions of dusty ghosts that need to be ( Read more... )

I have yet to post much about my new digs, like how I discovered it, how it is off the beaten path but right next to everything, how much work it entails, how much it will be worth it.. but today is a happy day.
Last night I retrieved many of my loose books. Some are full sets, like Erikson (only eight of the Malazan books fit in a grocery bag!), ( Read more... )

Apparently getting a new apartment (whole other joyous post too long to type now) and filling out a USPS change of address form online, and opting in to one or two coupons with "strict" will-not-share policies about giving your email out, results in a flood of 10% off coupons from every sort of home decor company, including ones you have never ( Read more... )

Why yes, that is me, eating dollar store salty chips off of a china plate. China that has been in my family for over six generations, carefully being dusted and displayed in curios while various people wandered by basking in the glories of rarely used china. If you ascribe to David Brin (which I do not), this china is near the height of ( Read more... )

(basically saying we hide anything that could go wrong with the car under obscure categories) "This result is not what you would like it to be, but we hope you can understand why no other result is possible."
I do. I completely understand. Before getting into another scrape, get State Farm. Results from the past are inescapable but foreknowledge ( Read more... )

Hey.. it's been the 12th here for at least four hours. Where's my Valvrave? Teases.
Update: Oh, I have to wait 6:40. Guess I'll do laundry or eat a snail in the meantime.

Sunup, and the moon is still high in the sky. My two local ravens greeted me without portent but flew up peacefully and then back to the treetops. The cricket was silent: on Friday it chirped all alone in the night, and yesterday there were answering chirps from far away. Perhaps they found each other.
It's a good day, hellacious though it may ( Read more... )