'specially for rgeorge, manna_panna, celina, and anyone else with a serious emotional attachment to fonts...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

to do:
11:30 am: medicate cat
12 - 2 pm: go to shop, mark out and paint sign
2 - 3 pm: figure out how to return ferousoxide's library book and do so
3 - 4 pm: second coat of paint
4 - 7 pm: be at home to orchestrate deep cleaning,
grocery delivery,
hand off old microwave oven for reuse in a sculpture;
7 - 8 pm: back to shop, third coat
9 pm: medicate cat

interleaved:
1) call one bank to have it explain to the other bank. (again.)
2) acquire new microwave oven.
3) more laundry
4) refill dishwasher
5) get chair upstairs
6) empty car

There are a number of spots in my life where I have suddenly run out of energy or enthusiasm for whatever it was I was or meant to be doing. Symptoms: piles of books next to the kitchen sink, none of them about cooking; storing clean, even folded laundry in baskets (though it doesn't help that there is no closet in my room); sorted, unopened mail.

I'm not sure if it is laziness, an unconventional sense of problem solving, depression, some combination thereof. I need to try harder to keep this out of my job.

Do I want to go out, or do I want to stay in? get things done...

and another 'I wish I could make this' shout out...
hey San Franciscans, are you familiar with this? I'd love to.

hey, remember Prozac Rat who opened for that first Danger Board show? They didn't suck at all! they have a free show tonight at the Acadia over on Riverside. I can't make it but I thought I'd spread the word.

Well, both my work and personal email accounts are still on the blink. Thank you kindly still to the gentlemen who have been hosting them; I know I'm rich in good friends. It still makes me just a bit twitchy to not know who might be trying to contact me. (No doubt with more concern for the size of my genitals and offers of discounted designer footgear.)

Tomorrow is Bastille Day (observed) at Cafe Barbette. I think I'll go! Today is evidently not shopping day... then again, if I wasn't working I'd probably be out playing too.

FeO, I have mailed your letter but still have to return your library book. And your plants are fine. XOX.

predictably very slow day in the storefront.

Kitty health: She's an old, old lady. she's mostly very healthy with her few remaining teeth, and she still jumps and sasses and all that. But she's got a LOT of these odd cysts in her skin, and one of the big ones on her back has opened (it's hard to discuss this because it's kinda gross and I love her.) The vet has examined it, cleaned it up, and given me some meds and stuff. But it's where she can lick it, and that's no good. She can't wear a collar, because there's another cyst on her neck that might open if it got rubbed. Amusingly, the vet recommended I find her a onesie to keep her from licking it. So far I haven't found time to do this, but shall this evening after work. I imagine she'll hate it. I'll need to provide her a way to use the litter box. Poor furry old thing.

The AC in the shop is fixed, HURRAY! My monsterboy and I had a chance to look at CONvergence some last night, even hang out with paulzebras and company. That was nice. The Dreaming is gorgeous. The Space Lounge has never sounded better. Many of our best former Minneapolitans are visiting! It really is one of the most creative, most fun SF conventions around. I hope my sweetheart manages to love it too.

The age-old land war in New Mexico seems to have reached a long-standing detente. Anna and Daniel are evidently prospering this year and eventually this strange old debt will be paid in full. Living well does beat revenge.

It's kind of a miserable day so far. Kitty had to go to the vet this morning, and the AC is both out 'til Saturday and going to be X-Pensive. We've put the chocolates up in the refrigerator so they're not damaged by the heat. Gah.

About that last poll, thank you kindly to those of you who answered. I appreciate your participation, and I suppose it is something of a sop to my sense of security and ego just to know you're there.

( (in case this subject still interests you!) )

In other news, attended nicholay's and thetrustmeguy's birthday last night, which was delightful with firecrackers and velvet underground and perilous tales of jodi's ankle.

This afternoon saracura (the girl) and I had a really interesting meeting with luno about software. Then my sweetheart took me out to see Get Smart, which was much funnier than I expected.

The annual car show at the state fairgrounds has been making traffic really curious, symbolic, and irritatingly slow in my neighborhood. I have to wonder how much gas a model T actually uses.

these are pieces of my life that I wonder whether I will remember next year.

Michael and I are sitting in a coffee shop discussing the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (saracura wasn't familiar with it either.)

It's evidently not my gallbladder that has been chewing on me, it's a peptic ulcer. And it's (mostly) now under control, I'm thrilled to say. Thanks for everybody's support.

Have any of you got experience with gallbladder attacks? My super-sleuthing self-diagnosis is that. Flu is pretty unlikely to be sticking around two weeks with no contagion. I think my brother must have made up "walrus flu," anyway. Anyway, the symptoms are pretty congruent, despite the negative ultrasound.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, I can tell you that for sure.

Things at work have been burbling on really rather well, and I should be bragging about our recent wave of publicity.



We were in last Monday's Star Tribune business section as well. Go us!

And, happy May Day!

Dear Livejournal, it's true, I have been avoiding you. I've experienced several journal-worthy experiences since my last vaguely personal posting, but I haven't written about them. Is it because of the new allure of Facebook? Or that my to-do list is enormous? Or that it's February and cold and depressing? Or some of all of the above?

Michael and I are together, we're mostly very happy about that though there are some things we haven't figured out yet. I feel like talking about that relationship here is somehow disrespectful of it. Certainly it was really wonderful to have a sweetheart for the Great Greeting-Card Holiday (especially while running a greeting card related business.)

ferrousoxide and I have managed to have some sundry small adventures, the next upcoming one is probably going to see De/Vision at Ground Zero this Thursday. (De/Vision is a German synthpop band -- if synthpop can be oldskool, they'd be it. One of my local favorite bands, Amdeide, is opening. Consider joining us.)

luno generously has helped me by installing the video camera rig in SaraCura (the store). It works! so the *third* time someone smashes our front door, we can show pictures of it to the police, and maybe get that person to pay the extra $400 - $600 vandalism has cost us each time.

Sarah and I went over the calendar yesterday and we confirmed that I have time off in March to travel. I plan to go visit azure_armand and birdfigment, since I've been promising to do that for the last three years. Michael is disappointed that he can't really afford to go with me.

guess that's enough of an update for now.