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My friend Jessica Bassett told me that she had a spare ticket to see Dwight Yokakam yesterday night, and wanted to know if I wanted to go. This is evidence to support one of my hypothesis that I would love to be true — that life runs in a series of themes, sometimes subtle, sometimes…

Sorry so long with no update. I guess I’ve been taking a sabbatical of sorts.

It’s a shame the whole pinched nerve thing, happened, by the way, because Lake in Wood Family Camping Resort was a lot of fun to visit. Kate said that it reminded her of Kellerman’s, the Catskills resort in Dirty Dancing, except it was more working-class. There were a lot of big Ford F350s with four…

I crossed my eyes, and they stayed that way. Kate and I went camping last weekend; armed with a four-person Eureka A-frame tent and several self-heating meals (you just pull the string and wait twenty minutes, they are the coolest things EVER), we went to a campground in Lancaster county. This was to be car…

Celery + Gravity = ART My friend Genevieve IMmed me this link, featuring the work of obsessed fifties illustrator Art Frahm. Frahm’s muse must have been an Austrian, with round glasses and a homburg hat: it commanded him to paint the same scenario over and over again: falling panties, blowing skirts, hatboxes, celery, and an…

PowerPoint? Power Drill! The Ultimate Water Gun Council of Elders thing is working out AWESOMELY; my mom (“Uncle Nancy”) and friend Dan Check (“The Holy Eucharist”) are the first to weigh in. I’ve also had to fix a problem with the gun; ever since it came back from Yale University, it hasn’t been able to…

I stayed up late tonight creating a “Council of Elders” tool for the Ultimate Water Gun Loan Requests page. Now the Ultimate Water Gun Council of Elders (much like the cartoon versions on the dashboard of Billy Batson’s RV in Shazam!) can weigh in on the requests, dispensing wisdom, asking clarifying questions, and making snide…

For several weeks, there’s been a spooky feeling at my full-time employer [My employer], with rumored layoffs lurking just around the corner. The layoffs finally happened yesterday, and there were pretty deep cuts in my department. As recently as Monday afternoon, I didn’t know whether I was gonna keep my job or not, so I…

I got a request to borrow the Ultimate Water Gun from Captain Mike Shilling of Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fl. Hell, yeah! He’s even promised me a couple of patches, which I can put on the tank. With a logo like that, how can I refuse?

I installed a Java Runtime Environment on my Linux box today, after wrestling with all the half-forgotten commands for tar and rpm. And “path”. And editing the .bash-profile file. Anyhow, I got it working, yippee! Now I can write applets to say “hello world” faster and better than ever before!!