April 20, 2008
I need a new Sunday. Sundays should have a pleasurable routine, a few simple, comforting delights to bring the week to a close.
For much of my life, Sundays were church. When I was young, it was off to church in the morning, back home for a big dinner at lunch and then a simple supper. Lots of little favorite things in there: afternoons driving in the country, cinnamon rolls, goofing at church with my friends and that apple pie pancake thing for supper.
In college, Sundays were either hangover days or omg-must-finish-this-project days. Best skipped over, I think.
There were more recent church Sundays. I sang in the choir, I brought the kids. I don't really remember a lot about those days. ...
April 8, 2008
The boys are in bed, probably not asleep. Keith is playing Oblivion and I'm sitting on the couch, unable to face another minute of year-end accounting.
There is a little constellation of potential jobs circling around me right now (and a couple which have escaped orbit to pursue other trajectories), but none seem quite ready to make their way onto my to-do list. Which is okay with me right now. A little business-like star-gazing is good for one now and then.
Cans of spray paint are somewhere in Illinois, making their way to me. They're transparent colors and I'm very excited about trying them out for some new paintings. I'm cutting some new stencils in anticipation.
Got me a Mega Millions ticket tonight ...
February 14, 2008
Hey, you. Yes, you. You know who you are - I smile at you a little more than anyone else, talk a little more quickly, stare just a little bit longer. Be my valentine, won't you?
September 10, 2007
It started innocently enough - Keith imported one of his contact lists into Facebook and got a bunch of new friends. 'Oh, look who just friended me back,' Keith said to me, innocently enough.
Him? No way, not him. You've got to be kidding. Scramble scramble scramble to block him from seeing my profile, only to find - to my relief and delight - that he had already blocked me. I still don't understand everything that happened during the last implosion we had, not in the least, in fact, I'm not sure I understand anything at all about it, but I do know that a proactive arm's length still feels necessary.
It's dumb of me, really, trying to block my profile - ...
August 12, 2007
Would someone please explain to me why they combine an expectorant, designed to make your coughs more 'productive' and get all that goo out of there, with a cough suppressant, designed to make you not cough? Seems dumb to me.
Still not doing great. In fact, marginal at best. Keith made me get up and out of the house yesterday, and I think that helped some. I also suspect I threw my electrolytes out of balance - I have been drinking copious amounts of water (see above expectorant issue) but I haven't been eating much at all. The nice, yummy salty
movie popcorn saved me, getting some sodium back into me. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe at ...
August 6, 2007
Well, this has been an odd day.
My throat has been irritated and hurting for the past couple days, and this morning, I woke up and really couldn't manage speaking. Laryngitis, potentially of viral, not bacterial, origin. (No fever, no general cold symptoms.) It probably didn't help that we had a rowdy, goofy, raised-voices kind of weekend with the boys, either.
So driving the boys to camp: I can't talk and everyone in the car is silent. I make some hand signals to Keith and he tries to make hand signals back. No no no - I can't talk, but you can, goofball!
Most of the day was pretty quiet, lots of emails, Keith made some calls in my stead, and pantomimes to ...
May 22, 2007
Yesterday, I tried to enter this painting into an alumni show to be held during Art Fair. I was supposed to email the details and a picture, but when I did, the email bounced - mailbox full. Sigh.
I had been keeping the painting to myself, as I'm unsure of it. But I figured if I was willing to hang it in a show, I may as well share it online. I haven't posted my work here in a long time, partly because I haven't been making much, partly because of the deafening silence when I used to. But in the spirit of Ze Frank and
Bye Bye ...
April 27, 2007
I went to the
Ann Arbor Ad Club meeting last night, at the dreadful SPARK place (sorry folks, you've got a great mission but an awful space), to hear about SEO and engaging the blogosphere. I know some about the former and well, I live in the latter, so I'm not sure why I felt compelled to attend, but there you have it.
The talks were good - Linda Gerard from
Pure Visibility was her perky and engaging self, evangelizing for good SEO practices (the white hat, google-fu kind). I picked up one thing I hadn't thought about - don't use your company name in the page title, use something descriptive (keyword-y). There were two ...
