September 2003

Stuff Done: Progress: 2003
Helped a bit with a pal moving. More progress today on the house. Leah created our living room today! Well, the basics were there, but it looks awesome. Didn’t do a yard sale yet. Renter’s insurance and car insurance is in place here now as well. The new vehicle is wonderful and useful. The bedroom looks great (lava lamp!). This old house has lots of doors, and we’re covering one, but I think it’s fine. The room has two other usable doors anyway. We have many more pictures on the walls too, and they’re great. This is home. There is still much to do, but these issues are all finite, and it’s all doable.

Time to say…

Onward.

First Sterling, Then Gibson
First Bruce stopped his main blog, but he’ll return on a Wired blog at some point, now William Gibson has stopped blogging. He says, and he’s been writing for more than two decades, that blogging takes away from novel writing. I know there are other novelists who blog, Neil Gaiman for instance, so it can’t be a truism. I wonder if there would be circumstances under which I would stop blogging altogether to put my mind on some other project.

So, I’ll miss Gibson, but I take solace that in a week, The Baroque Cycle begins with the 944 page Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.

Snapshot
This morning: parents to airport at 6am
Now playing: Montana by Zappa
Need to: pay for racquetball class
Must: car insurance
Eating: canned corn and Tiger’s Milk
Drinking: orange juice
Downloading: gentoo linux for PPC
Wearing: Zappa t-shirt
Doing: blogging and depacking
Leah: out doing her stuff
Tonight: more depacking with Leah
Tomorrow (we hope): garage sale #1
Feeling: nifty, sweaty from racquetball this am

New Header
Okay, so I didn’t want to leave up the 9/11 header, so here’s a new one.

The meetup tonight was good. I am tired.

For Today
San Diego Web Design Meetup today!

My folks got in safe last night, yay!

I got rid of many boxes last night—gave them to a friend and his wife who are moving! So fun!

Tuesday night, Racquetball class was good. It put me low – I was achey and creaky and fell directly to sleep.

Now, work.

Remember
A small useless token of remembrance

Blogger Pro no longer for-pay
I guess the revenue model is textads. Blogger Pro features to get rolled into free product, refunds going to go to Blogger Pro users.

I’m glad I’ve stuck with Blogger.

Some stray updates
Went to a party on Saturday—that was boss.

Saw Step Into Liquid—that was moving (I cried!)

The house is coming along great

We’re going to have a garage sale Saturday

We’ve scheduled a housewarming party—choosing the invite list was fun—I know a lot of people, but I don’t want them all to come have a drink with me

I really like hot beef jerky—though I can’t say the same for my stomach

My folks are on their way to California by car—can’t wait to see them

Leah and I have A LOT of paintings and pictures—we’re deciding which ones go where

We really need to do laundry

I start a racquetball class tonight—that may be interesting

Walking onto the San Diego City College campus yesterday was a bit disorienting after 15 years

I was happy to see their processes seem to have improved

Thursday there’s a new webdesign meetup—should be great again

SUMMARY: things good, things busy, things fun, things best when one on one not taken too seriously

Onward

QuixLink
Quixtar Blog linked to my Quixtar Links page. And vice versa.

4 Meetup Photos
Back in August Leah took some photos of the webdesign meetup. I’m doing some hard-drive cleaning, so here are some meetup photos. The next one is this week, on September 11th.