To see why I dig my dog, look at that little dogface!
Also see that I don't have bookcases or enough CD storage, please.
Thank you.
I dig my dog.
Sofa Suggestions
Freddie had a suggestion for a couch for me. I might pass, but suggestions are always welcome.
I don't think Ernie would be tempted to sit on the sofa... 
babies and weirdness
So Jason and Jeannette Clark had their baby! Christopher William Clark (for the record, this is the second Chris/Cris Clark that I know...although I haven't met him yet...) was born a week ago at a whopping 8 lbs 5 oz... Babies are good.
And I heard from my friend Maryam in Ithaca the other day. We're sporadically in touch, but I just love her and her husband. She's an opera singer struggling with living in central New York and commuting to the City, he's a PhD candidate in German at Cornell. But the best part of her email yesterday described what her brother (who is a magician) is currently doing:
" nabil (her brother) is doing well- he's in saipan performing in a variety show where he does a midget michael jackson routine with another guy who plays the chimp- and no i am not kidding, and yes he is really getting paid (pretty darn well) to do this."
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that, I'd have a dollar.
I should should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely...
I made a TMBG mix for someone this weekend, and I've had 3 things stuck in my head ever since:
1. The title of this post from "It's Not My Birthday" (and it's not my birthday but you can send gifts regardless)
2. a goodly portion of "Letterbox" which was my theme song with Specky when he moved back to Australia "If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time you forgot to think about all the things you forgot to talk about when you took a bite out of my spine, I would have a lot of eyes on the other side. Wouldn't I? Wouldn't that just be fine?"
3. Brief portions of my Fredlet's dance/tumbling number she did at Roubidoux High school at that Star-something contest when she got second (I still say she was robbed). I remember the costumes, the seeking behaviour at the beginning and something that my memory is telling me looked a lot like the Roger Rabbit...
The topic: The Daily Show
I love it but I rarely watch it anymore… I’ve been going to bed wicked early of late. But that aside, here’s a synopsis of last night’s TDS with John Kerry. I missed that one too, but I will see if I can try to catch its rerun tonight. Here’s what CNN had to say about it:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/24/kerry.daily.show.ap/index.html
I am also still curious about the Russian jet problems yesterday. I’m a sleepy monkey and I just plain wasn’t in the mood for coffee… but I grabbed a diet Mtn. Dew for the caffeination factor. I’m still looking for a coffee place to love… I miss the Coffee Bean (and Tea Leaf… that’s for you Annie. As is Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim, California, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe) or the Bean (that’s for you Jills). They have Peaberry coffee here. Their coffee is decent, better than Starbucks, but not handy to work…Common Grounds (see previous post) has adequate coffee, is independent, has fun people in it, but not open early enough for me to get to work with coffee and be on time.
Is there an ubertrendy name for the goth/hippie/yuppie people that I tend to be around a lot? They’re the ones with the fun hair, the cute glasses who ride bikes and carry messenger bags, and buy fun furniture.
I fell in love with a couch this weekend… but I’m afraid it was just the colors I loved… and it was comfy. It was at a Scandinavian furniture store (not Ikea, we don’t have those here), was biomorphically shaped, had a round swivel chair in the middle, and was happy colors like purple, pink and orange solid with polka dot throw pillows. It was also REALLY expensive and I’m afraid that if I buy it, I’ll just hate it in 3 years. And since I’m buying a BRAND NEW couch for the first time I’m feeling some responsibility for keeping it for a long time… Maybe I’ll get a fun one that isn’t quite so stylized… or expensive.
Happy Accidents
I spent this weekend getting to know my new computer and figuring out the headaches and joys that are wi-fi cafes... If you're in Denver and looking for a free wi-fi, I recommend Paris on the Platte filled with punks, goths, hippies, and yuppies with young families who watch the open coffee roaster, check their email, and chatting with friends and strangers. I ordered a veggie melt (with wonderfully yummy and spicy guacamole) and checking my email, upgrading Roxio so that I could transfer some of my analog music to digital (well, that's still in progress, and Freddie, if you know of a way to do that (particularly from cassette) without special software, I'd be ever in your debt and continually pour undying affection at your feet. If not, then it's to the curb with you... [grin]), and playing the new (to me) version of Solitaire: Spider (it's challenging like Freecell, and just a nice change of pace for time wasting). I also tried to go to Common Grounds to use their free wi-fi, but their connection was down (and I've overheard many people complain about that over the months I've been dropping in there).
That having been said, I just love my neighborhood.
On the couch shopping front, I found out that my sofa is worth more than I thought. It's too big for my apartment as it is, has a sleeper sofa and 2 recliners. When I get the check from my insurance company, I'll likely be able to buy a sleeper sofa (that will fit), possibly a big comfy chair for reading, bookcases (finally), a desk (finally), and with a little luck, my textbooks for fall, and with a lot of luck (and severe thriftiness on the previous purchases) an iPod... Which brings me back to the computer.
The computer is wunnerful! I also got an external CD-RW drive, which is too much fun for me (not that I'd ever break copyright laws and be joyful about it). And in downloading my music to my computer, I've discovered that I have a TON of cd's. If you've ever seen my cd's you're not surprised to hear this. But I was making a They Might Be Giants Mix for someone, and 2/3 of my TMBG collection alone was around 1.2 gb. So I'm thinking that I may need a 40 gb iPod when it comes to that... The 10 gb just ain't gonna cut it.
Also in fun things, I bought a messenger bag for school with tons of nifty pockets and zippers, some more blank cd-r's, and 2 cd's: Turin Brakes (a band they played on the radio when I lived in Maine and I LOVED) and TMBG's Flood. Finally. I had the cassette version of this in 1990, but sometime between now and then, I lost it. But now I've gots it.
Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.
Insurance stuff blows.
So, I've filed a claim with my insurance company about my sofa, and now my landlord is ticked.
This blows. I have confrontation. I loathe confrontation.
A cry for help
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
I carried a watermelon.
These 2 lines have been haunting me for the last 5 days... please make them stop. I don't even LIKE that movie...
