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I moved to 45th Street in Oakland proper, 4 blocks away from my old place. I have more news than that. My sister Dawn got married in July, and it was great; it brought my whole family together. My sister Jennifer recently got her Master's and came home to stay with my folks for a while. I personally am pleased with that, but she has mixed feelings; she thinks she should have been able to go straight from grad school to employment with no lifestyle changes. I bought a car in August, and since then I've been driving to work every day, working later hours, working more. Twelve-hour days are normal now. My average daily commute time has gone from 4+ hours to 2 hours, and I've put about 8000 miles on my car, almost completely on the 880.
I should have mentioned all this when it happened. Life is not only a vale of tears and a trial, as you might think from what I post. I've had trouble talking about things when they happen. It would be nice to make some coffee, talk about books, and keep up that way; you could probably tell what's up from looking at me better than I could tell you myself. The easiest things to say are specific and concrete, not that I wish there were more of them. It's also easier to talk directly with someone; I do wish there were more chances for that. There are people I'd like to tell specific things to; I hope they know what they are anyway.
It's been almost a year since my coworker Nate died. We didn't have a chance to be great friends, but I liked and respected him a lot; and obviously, I work with his code every day. He was a really smart guy. We're all thinking about him at work. All of us went out to Kennedy's in North Beach the other night and talked nonsense for a few hours. The nights are shorter now but there's more nonsense to talk.
I feel like I've reached a point in the progression in my life where appreciating and really getting to know the people I care about is so important. I want more time for it. I want to keep every promise I've ever made and forgive every debt. That's appropriate for the time of year.
One of my neighbors on the west side just dropped by with a "Welcome to the neighborhood!" card and a gift, a box of peppermint bark. Her name is Sujatha and she seems real nice; she told me some stories and suggested we get coffee sometime. Now it's for doing things. I was going to try to go to this BBQ place I haven't tried yet, Doug's - but it seems like it closed recently so I may have missed my shot. KC's up on SP in Berkeley seems closed too, and of course Flint's is gone. That seems to leave E&J's or Uncle Willie's for barbecue I haven't had recently.
There's so much to do today.
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This was an entry on Boing Boing's 100-word fiction competition "Found in Space" and it touched my geeky little heart: 10 INPUT "Please enter your username: ", U$ 20 IF U$ != "Amanda" THEN GOTO 160 30 PRINT "My dearest Amanda," 40 PRINT "I thought I'd never see you again." 50 PRINT "You've grown." 60 PRINT "I guess I've stayed the same." 70 PRINT "I may not be everything you want me to be." 80 PRINT "But I loved you first, and I loved you best." 90 PRINT "There was a time you loved me, too." 110 INPUT "Come back to me? ", A$ 120 IF A$ = "N" OR A$ = "n" THEN GOTO 150 130 PRINT " <3 <3 <3 " 140 GOTO 130 150 END 160 PRINT "Invalid username: "; U$ 170 PRINT "You cannot access this space." 180 GOTO 10 It reminds me of how I used to write journaling programs in BASIC so that I could password-protect all my omgdeepthoughts (at age 8). Call it proto-blogging, except with no audience. I wish I still had those diaries somewhere, although I doubt the 5 1/4" floppies they were saved on would do me much good now.
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One of the members of Congress most targeted by the tea baggers and other far-right political wing nuts has been Virginia Rep. Tom Periello.
Last August, tea begger demonstrators even threatened to burn Periello in effigy, citing his support for health care legislation that recently passed the House of Representatives! So we are not talking about rational thinking human beings here in the first place.
And now, (This gets really surreal)tea baggers and the University of Virginia College Republicans have enlisted the help of a Christian "civil liberties" organization to make the demand that Pereillo move his office so that protesters will no longer have their ability to protest him be “hindered“!
Yeah! Move closer too us so we can more easily harass you!
The Rutherford Institute, which was founded by conservative constitutional lawyer John W. Whitehead, penned a letter to the freshman Perriello citing the concerns of a local tea party group and the University of Virginia College Republicans that the location of his Charlottesville office interferes with their right to protest there.
“Unfortunately, it is your choice of office location that has hindered the ability of citizens to effectively communicate concerning issues of the utmost importance to you, Congress and the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” wrote Whitehead.
Once again the Right Wing Evangelical fucktards have misinterpreted their 1st amendment rights, they have the right to protest all they want, they do not have the right to demand facilitation of those protests, nor do they have the right to demand you presence.....!
Yet these dullards are the ones that feel THEY should be in charge. YOu know the type, the 1st amendment applies to THEIR free speech, not yours, the Constitution is there for THEM, not you, freedom of religion only applies to THEIR sanctioned religion, no other.
Empty headed ignorant hypocritical fools to a man!
Tags: christians, civil liberties, effigy, idiots, perriello
Current Mood:  amused
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