I think I had more to say while I was on vacation. Now my brain seems to be in work drone mode. Not a good place to have a brain.
Mthology has a new look. I like the way Matt lays out the date, a title and a post. It creates a nice context for his comments, and it's eminently more readable that his old layout. But I'm not sure about the funkified "Powered by Blogger" logo. Isn't that going to screw up our branding? ;)
Sorry for the lack of posts, an overwhelming weekend full of high school friends, a 10-year reunion, more Jack & Cokes than I can count, a Patriots loss, brunch with my grandparents, and an airplane flight of 3127.6 miles this morning has left me a little run-down. I wonder why?
Jeez, are they trying to give me a heart attack or what?!
Giving thanks inspired more thanks giving!
So yesterday I tried to get to the bottom of this Pokémon craze by going straight to the source: my little cousins. Ages 7 and 9, I asked them to explain what was so cool about Pokémon to me. They looked a little confused, and they showed me their cards, but they couldn't really explain what was so good about it. Oh well...I guess there's just some stuff that "adults" can't understand.
Giving Thanks:
For the freedom to vote
For the web
For the opportunity to do really cool things
With really cool people
For my kitty
For potatoes, soy lattes, and Orange, Massachusetts
For four grandparents, five aunts, four uncles, nine cousins,
two parents, one brother
For today
For you
Big item on To-Do list today: Bake apple pie. I love to bake pies, my first job after college was as a pie baker on Cape Cod. Some people don't like baked fruit desserts.
Other moms: "When are you going to get married? I think it's about time you got married."
My mom: "When are you going to migrate to Sybase? I'm concerned about your scalability."
megnut: leading cryptic weblog.
And it's total total bullshit.
I can't believe that I can still fall for the "one true love" of my life.
Boston seems to have done something to my mood...
Weblogging as a popularity contest. The more links one weblogger gets from another, the higher s/he moves up in the rankings. So if I were to post, say, something about how I love to read Onfocus and Evhead every day, and post that every day, they'd be more popular. Cool, and then maybe one of them could be like the homecoming king or captain of the football team, and then like, I could go on a date with one of them, if megnut becomes more popular, and we'd be like the coolest kids in school!
So I now that I'm in Boston, I've been reading the Boston Globe again, something I used to do every day when I lived here. There's something so satifying about holding the big oversized pieces of paper, of touching the news, that I miss in my online reading. And I find that I read more stories and catch up more on current events, than I do online. Which brings me to...
Politics. I've been rather aloof to date with the presidential campaigns, and the candidates. Oh, I know who's announced their intents to seek nominations and all that, but platforms and beliefs - those are things I could only guess at until this morning. Until I read this tasty piece on George W. Bush. Seems he's running a "campaign of inclusion" but he won't meet with a GOP gay group. The two-faced hypocrisy of it all astounds me. Tell the fucking truth for crissakes - your "inclusion" refers to people like you, George: white, Christian, heterosexual men and women.
I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow for Thanksgiving, my 10 year high school reunion, and some vacation. So many thoughts about the upcoming trip are making it hard to concentrate today at work. People from my past have been appearing in my dreams the last few nights, people I haven't seen or thought of in almost 10 years. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone's doing now.
Jake, pb, and I shared our first bottle of 1999 Georges Duboeuf beaujolais nouveau last night at Le Charm. Fruity and unpretentious we say, and it does go well with the chicken!
People have had worse days on the MUNI - thanks Derek!
Anyone looking for an apartment in San Francisco? I noticed this morning that there's a For Rent sign on my building, one bedroom, $1395. If only Lance hadn't just signed a lease, we could be neighbors. If you're interested, let me know.
Today is a very good day. I can just feel it.
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