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10:18:40 PM, Thursday 22 May 2008
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10:17:39 PM, Thursday 22 May 2008
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The mafia run cheese shop is back in the local news.
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04:11:24 PM,
Wednesday 21 May 2008
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Is it shallow of me to feel a sort of social kinship with people who don't dye their hair? I was kind of stunned and slightly embarrassed by how much my opinion of the Governor of Kansas improved when I saw her picture. Some of this is probably that my father has been gray since his 30s, so I just don't see it as a sign of dotage. But it's also my Sikhish notions about simplicity, nature, fashion, and conformity. Society gives us all these choices and signals about our apperences, and ascribes meanings to them. The only way to escape is to stick to the natural defaults, and let people think what they like.
I'd feel more secure about all this if I hadn't come to this conclusion 3 years ago, at the same time as the beard revival. And though I strangely relish any sign that I'm going gray, my vanity is irrationally hurt by the notion of going bald.
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12:14:37 PM,
Wednesday 21 May 2008
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Bah. My bicycle's transmission is no longer supported by Shamino. The internal hub is playing up because the guy who put in a new tube for me didn't know how to put it back together. Hopefully it's just overtightened or some such.
About 75% of the recumbent manufacturers that existed when I bought my bike are now out of business, and one has transitioned to making crank-forward bikes, which are basically stealth-recumbents, for people who like the idea but aren't into the whole eccentricity thing. This makes me fear for the state of the revolution. On the other hand, one of the bike rental places on Cape Cod had recumbents.
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08:07:14 PM,
Sunday 18 May 2008
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08:44:42 PM, Friday 9 May 2008
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According to my sister's geneological research, I am descended from a park keeper at Apley Park in the mid 19th century. Please note, however, an unforgivable error on that site: while characters moved pretty freely between Blandings and London, Wooster never went there. Wasn't much for the countryside in general.
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06:52:54 PM,
Friday 9 May 2008
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The stained glass Tiffany is the son of the jewelry shop Tiffany. This makes more sense.
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11:49:34 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2008
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I have learned how to use my shoulder more in badminton. My shoulder is not exactly pleased about joining my forearm, wrist, ankles, legs and knees in complete exhaustion. 3 hours is probably too much badminton, but really, the profound aching thing doesn't start until 15 minutes after I stop.
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10:20:31 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2008
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Anyone else playing Mario Kart Wii?
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09:55:22 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2008
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From The Walls Around Us by David Owen:
"...(a house) is essentially a huge box filled with complicated things that want to break - a box that sits outside, day and night, in the rain and snow, surrounded by creatures that would like to eat it."
"Now that I have spent an afternoon wrestling with a reciprocating saw, I have a pretty good idea of how to cut a hole in a wall between two rooms. But when will I get a chance to use my experience? The hole is already in the wall. Filling it up just to cut it properly would be absurd. I could cut a big hole in another wall, but I can't think of one that isn't better off as it is."
"Even more important, there is a powerful feeling of tranquility that comes from knowing how one's house is put together and how its systems are supposed to function. My childhood would have been somewhat less anxiety-ridden had I realized that because of the way a house is framed, there was no way for pirates to crawl through the floor from the laundry chute to the space beneath my bed and stab me through my mattress with their long pirate swords."
I'm going to enjoy this book.
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02:44:28 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2008
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Crowded House at the Somerville Theater was amusing. I think I've listened to too many Finn Brothers albums, but I was expecting something less rock star. I'm not sure I've ever seen a performer who thought he was a Beatle before. He clearly didn't have anywhere to be, and tried to play every song he'd ever written with a proper name in it. I particularly enjoyed Lester. Don McGlashan, who opened, wasn't terribly exciting, except when he played the euphonium.
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01:12:50 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2008
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