| Beer, Fire, Saturday |
[Jan. 23rd, 2010|06:22 pm] |
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Hey people, totally random. I'm trying to scrounge up a group of people for a backyard fire/beer gathering. By which I mean, I'm planning on having a fire tonight (saturday Saturday; January 23) and I'm trying to get people to participate. If you're down and not busy drop me a line (phone/inbox/lj) and I'll direct you in. |
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| Blah Weekend |
[Jan. 10th, 2010|05:49 pm] |
Not really feeling "it" this weekend. Whatever it is.
Progress on the house is going well, if slow. Most of the crap has been shuffled into the guest room for later review (out of site, out of mind).
Also, pictures.
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| Things Portland has Taught Me |
[Dec. 26th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
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In Portland I learned the person I am is far more interesting that the person I want(ed) to be. |
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| House Edition |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|08:17 pm] |
Lots of grumble cakes, but all minor compared to finally being in my house.
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| Overheard at the B-Side Monday Night |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|05:02 pm] |
If you sent me out for tampons I'd come back with a menses cup
(Where by overheard I meant broadcasted loudly. By me). |
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| Moving Truck Extravaganza! |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|10:23 am] |
The big final "I get to have my life back" move is happening this Saturday, the 19th! You KNOW you want to help, and you know you want to talk your friends into helping too!
I'm getting the truck in the morning and figure people should start showing up around 11:00am. (NW Portland by Montgomery Park, pvt/comment for the specific address).
I'm already about 75% moved over, so all that remains is furniture and a few extra boxes of random knick-knacks. It should be an easy day of moving, with standard bribes of pizza (from Hammy's around the corner, both vegan and non) and beer (from New Seasons down the street)
Come, earn karma, do it!
Comment or otherwise get in touch with me for details. |
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| Alas |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
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Alana Clause will have to wait for another year, another Santa Con fail for me. |
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| How Do People Live Like This? |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|04:27 pm] |
Wherein I discuss the various stressful things in my life (at the moment) that are keeping me from responding to my current list of interesting and engaging people and keeping me from meeting new and interesting people
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| Internet Vacation |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:33 am] |
I think it's time for an internet vacation.
Technology, especially new technology, is only useful if it improves your life and extends you in ways that better let you do what you want to do. Yes, the iPhone is a trendy, elitist prick gadget, but it's also the difference between "missing the fucking bus again" to "zomg, 2 minutes, time to run". It makes public transportation work a whole lot better for me, so it gets to stick around.
Around seven or eight years ago I stopped watching television as an experiment, and decided to continue to not watch television when I realized what a time sink it was and how drained I'd feel after watching it. As a technology, TV wasn't serving me and I dropped it.
I feel the same way about large swath of the internet these days. As we move more and more towards what the wonks are calling "the real time web" it feels like a never ending series of constant distractions and action items and nothing that engenders any real understanding of what's actually going on. The whole Google Wave thing feels so wrong, like the distraction machine turned to 11 and the expectation shifting from "you may be distracted at any moment" to "you will be distracted at any moment".
Even when I escape the constant stream of information, it's impossible for me to concentrate on anything of length on the internet. Once I pass 1,000 words of prose my mind starts wandering. I know there's something new and shinny just a click away, and because this is how so many people experience the Internet and money is made from page views, the writing becomes shallower and shallower.
Top 10 ways your internet shunning friends can judge you!
I suppose it's an early resolution, but I'm going to drastically cut back on how much of my free time is spent online, and how often I check my various hang outs and news sources. If I don't get to something, I don't get to it. Livejournal will still be a semi-regular read (assuming it doesn't vanish into the mist) but Facebook is on the outs and I've already stopped the Twittering for a month or two.
I have no ida how long this will last, and it might be be me being overwhelmed by jack-ass space monkey bankers and mortgage brokers, but I need to bust some kind of cycle, and this is the cycle with the biggest target on its back.
(And in case it's not clear, I don't care if YOU implant the internet behind your eyelid. Nothing to do with you, everything to do with me) |
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| kill kill die die |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|10:36 pm] |
I swear to fuck, having had to, for months, deal with all the mistrust and horse-shit that goes on in a modern project based agency and then dealing with all the mistrust and horses-shit that goes on when dealing with people selling you a house and then dealing with all the mistrust and horse-shit involved in having to deal with the people who will give you enough money to buy a house has me ready to lay waste to all I see.
This is when I'm glad for modern society's insistence that we don't carry around swords as a day to day thing.
Random: The shooting in Tualatin today happened in an office park where I did a gig a year or so back. |
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| Bus Ride Home |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|01:22 am] |
Window fog is sexier than sharpie marker.
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| Alive |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|02:52 pm] |
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ERP! I'm alive, still stuck in house limbo and job busy busy. My plan is to stay busy enough to forget its the holidays! Should hear about the underwriting on Monday, after which I can tell my landlord I'm moving, pick a day, get a truck, and then wrangle all of you into helping me! (I could probably do this before I hear back about the underwriting, but I'm weird about things like that) |
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