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{ Thursday, 21 September, 2006 }

I'm home...

...but right now gears are shifting to adjusting to work. Expect a post sometime over the weekend.

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{ Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 }

A quick note...

...to say that I've been happily involved with a day that is 25 hours long and 2200 miles wide. All is well in Marin County, California!

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{ Tuesday, 08 August, 2006 }

I wanted to post substantial things...

...but I'm really busy this mornng. Hopefully I'll have afternoon and evening goodness for everyone.

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{ Friday, 04 August, 2006 }

Begging off for Friday

I've got some serious schoolwork to do- meanwhile, several travelers are en route to Asheville for the first annual Metachat/Metafilter Bunnystock... so I've got to balance all this hooey.

I may pop in to say hello over the weekend...

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{ Sunday, 30 July, 2006 }

I am here, but...

...I am also about to go. Hiking here today, through this trail. I'll tell you about it some time tomorrow!

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{ Friday, 14 July, 2006 }

blogging off for Friday

I'm down with allergies- know that it looks really sexy right now.

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{ Thursday, 22 June, 2006 }

Curses, foiled again!

I've let time slip away from me like a cloud of starlings, and I don't really have the time to post right now. It might be like this for the next few days, so bear with...

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{ Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 }

Mugwumps Again

Argh, these mugwumps stifle my bloggish expression again! Posting will resume once time, itself, has resumed.

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{ Monday, 12 June, 2006 }

Mugwumps

Due to unforeseen mugwumps, no posting today. A little too busy this
morning, ugh.

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{ Sunday, 16 April, 2006 }

Blog Zzzzzzzs

The blog was heavily fed today, and needs a nap.

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{ Saturday, 15 April, 2006 }

Blog break today

The blog is very busy doing other things. Let's see if it get around to doing something tomorrow. Probably will.

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{ Thursday, 06 April, 2006 }

Busy day...

So I overslept and awoke right into an impossibly busy day. But, I like it... when I was unemployed, I craved this. It's doing wonders for me, hopefully enabling me tohave my way at a few wonders as well. I'll try to check in later.

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Mishap! Your Loyal Editor Oversleeps!

As such, I can't guarantee that I'll be able to post anything substantial today. I will try, but it's a tight schedule with teaching a class late into the night.

Oi vey!

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{ Sunday, 02 April, 2006 }

Bird on the Moon is recovering from April Fools

Seriously, I'll be back tomorrow.

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{ Saturday, 01 April, 2006 }

Bird on the Moon Sells Out

I am turning over daily administration of this blog to Jesus.


April Fools!

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{ Friday, 03 March, 2006 }

It's been a frightenly busy day (finally), and as a result I'll have to catch up on my blogging later. Yet, for the most part, all is quite well.

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{ Wednesday, 01 March, 2006 }

Busy day

I'm up way early for a variety of strange reasons, yet due to those strange reasons, I'm unable to post goodies for you today.

Don't worry, those reasons are mostly good. More in the evening.

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{ Sunday, 26 February, 2006 }

The blog and its creator are enjoying the weekend, lazily and happily.

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{ Saturday, 18 February, 2006 }

The blog slept in today, oblivious to the passage of time.

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{ Thursday, 09 February, 2006 }

oops

I know, I *forgot* to post today. I'll make it up to ya tomorrow.

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{ Sunday, 29 January, 2006 }

The blog was similarly stricken by a case of the sleepies today. It promises to revive tomorrow.

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{ Saturday, 28 January, 2006 }

The blog was sleepy today. It's winter, after all.

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{ Thursday, 26 January, 2006 }

The Story

Another installment of "Revival Policy" will be posted shortly. Keep in mind that I'm writing in a whole new style I've never tried out, so it's going to be klunky going for the next little while.

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{ Sunday, 15 January, 2006 }

The blog resteth today.

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{ Sunday, 08 January, 2006 }

Day off

The blog is observing a randomly observed day to rest and relax.

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{ Sunday, 11 December, 2005 }

Busy Day

Rehearsing, a party, et al. See you tomorrow.

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{ Thursday, 08 December, 2005 }

bustle and hustle

Because of yesterday's birthday brouhaha and preoccupying shenanigans, I don't really have the time to blog much today. I'm sure the Overlogs of Blogolalia will forgive this one indulgence.

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{ Sunday, 04 December, 2005 }

g'night

I've told the alarm clock I'm disinterested in its antics,
And alas, a day passes, and time sil has yet to thoroughly own me-

I wave it off as I succumb to sleep, that most wicked panacea.

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{ Saturday, 19 November, 2005 }

Mellow day

The blog needed a little bit more time to rest. Some call it lazy, the blog calls it "self-care." To each their meta-own.

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{ Friday, 18 November, 2005 }

Blog takes a breather

The blog is taking Friday off to sleep in, watch the birds, and go have a drink at the jazz bar. It will return rested and ready tomorrow.

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{ Sunday, 13 November, 2005 }

meh

Really tired today. Will return tomorrow.

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{ Saturday, 05 November, 2005 }

R&R Saturday

I'll post something cosmically chewy tomorrow. In the meantime, here's the top five mental memes of the last week:

  • Must aggressively pursue new job. Must aggressively pursue new job. Must aggressively pursue new job. Must aggressively pursue new job. Must aggressively pursue new job.
  • Time to shake up unshaken spiritual beliefs, for the fun of it.
  • The Expanse-Of-It-All humbles the heck out of our dillusional preoccupations.
  • There is great equity in mortality.
  • There is great inequity in experience.

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    { Wednesday, 03 August, 2005 }

    i am not a robot

    ...and I am alive, behind this veil of non-me related posts. I've just been too busy to type out a biography of microevents. There are definitely disturbances in the force, and I'm hopeful that I can have some real positive news to report soon. Meanwhile, savor the dog days.

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    { Saturday, 05 February, 2005 }

    This is a test post. Is this thing on?

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    { Monday, 17 January, 2005 }

    By the time you read this, I will have arrived in the Chapel Hill/Raleigh area for a meeting tomorrow (yawn). The upside is that I'll be crashing with my dear friend JenWo and we'll have a gay old time before six long hours of Home Office bliss.

    I've got linkage set to post until I resume normality. Will that truly ever happen? In the grand sense, I certainly hope not!

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    { Wednesday, 12 January, 2005 }

    UPDATE: I'll pick up the new car Friday. The salesman tried to be slick, in suggesting that I could pick it up tonight, which would have involved writing an essentially bad check. I can certainly wait one more day to have that strange American luxury of wheels again. Oddly, the Geo's unfortunate demise will get me in something a little better, it seems.

    It's not official yet, but it looks like I'll be hopping into my new car tonight. It's a new Kia, and I've never owned a new car before. Gulp. Will report later.

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    { Sunday, 09 January, 2005 }

    mt upgrade

    Whew! Looks like all went well. Please report any bugs!

    I'm preparing to upgrade my MT install to the latest 3.14 from 2.64. If there's relative silence after this, you'll know something went haywire. Let's hope not.

    (knock wood)

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    { Friday, 07 January, 2005 }

    Sanity report: exhaustion on this trip to visit family post-holidays is exhausting, but somehow I manage to persist. I've revisited several dreamspots, long-purged memories, and recycled through the context of my former years here. Right now, it's nap time. As rest has been at a premium, that will take precedent over bloggage. More later.

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    { Thursday, 06 January, 2005 }

    30% remaining

    I'm alive, mostly well, and a tad exhausted up here in Delaware; flatland, boxland, consumerland, waste-not-want-not-land. I'm masterfully ducking mindgames and dysfunctional virii, and deflecting the gelatinous paws of joie-de-homogenaity.

    Back home, myproper home, on Sunday. Intermittent reports on sanity will follow.

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    { Friday, 17 December, 2004 }

    'Tis the high holy season

    'Tis the high holy season for doing sound and lights at concerts. Tonight is my third year doing AV for this particular concert/performance, and it always kicks off the delerious march toward that day when all this odd merriment is finally over. Thank goddess for beer before soundchecks. These folks are wonderful, and truly it warms my soul, even if my attitude toward the anachronistic-minded marking of an apocryphal birth of a would-be savior-bot is lacking.

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    { Saturday, 11 December, 2004 }

    I've got a bucket full of flowers, a wrinkled suit, a few few hours to pass arranging decorations for my friends' Frank and Lauren's wedding. I'll moblog the arrangements, hopefully.

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    { Friday, 10 December, 2004 }

    intermission blogging

    It's intermission and I'm doing sound a lights for a concert; one of these folks is a Grammy nominee this year and is so mellow and humble. This is an annual event and I've worked with these fine folks for three years and each time it gets easier, and I learn a little bit more about music. Ed Gearhart and Bill Mize, if you should need to know.

    Tomorrow, I'm doing flowers for the wedding of my friends Lauren and Frank. It will be a busy day with little posting; I may moblog the arrangements.

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    { Tuesday, 07 December, 2004 }

    Just got back from a long soak at out local mineral hot springs; the celebration of beingness continues with dinner at Robin and Joshua's and an evening of good friends gathering. Officially 32 at 7:23pm EST, and yes, I'm sucking it up!

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    { Friday, 19 November, 2004 }

    I'm home, and quite happy for it. Regular fun resumes tomorrow,

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    { Wednesday, 17 November, 2004 }

    Out for a possibly adventurous night in a foreign town; solo. Have fun y'all.

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    { Monday, 15 November, 2004 }

    I'm off to stay the week away for work's sake yet again; this time, it's not the (s)election I'm worried about leaving behind, it's my cat Ursula. This morning she had a seizure or something like it, enough to essentially take a day off to be with her. She's perfectly herself right now, and seems fine, but it's hard to go right now.

    Luckily, good people (in fact, the best) will be looking after her. Perhaps you, too, will send a little love her way.

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    { Wednesday, 10 November, 2004 }

    One Act Festival

    Tonight, the one act play I've been directing, "Duet for Bear and Dog," makes it's cutesy-poetic-poignantly funny debut, along with a monologue I've been working on by Lord Buckley, called "God's Own Drunk." I'll post pics later...

    My thanks to a great cast!

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    { Friday, 05 November, 2004 }

    I'm coming home today, and after this insane week full of deflation, hour long asthma attacks, and the at times thrilling feeling of foriegn-ness, it will feel great to be back on home turf. Look for a site redesign this weekend.

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    { Tuesday, 02 November, 2004 }

    Pray and Visualize

    This anticipation is killing me; if this fucks up, I'm out of the country... for real.

    jaybird found this for you @ 23:23 in Misc. Babble | | permalink



    As over 100 million Americans vote, I will be in a training all day, not home til 5ish or 6ish. I'm calm about tonight, and now must focus on getting through the first of eight days of hotel living, keeping up the the class workload, and experiencing a wide variety of socially related emotion.

    Get out there, do good work, and I'll be posting plenty of goodness tonight.

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    { Friday, 22 October, 2004 }

    Off to the local Sinclair protest, hope you're all joining in across the country! I'll post pics and such...

    jaybird found this for you @ 18:02 in Misc. Babble | | permalink



    Ah yes, work is sending me off to Loafer's Glory NC and beyond. Happy Friday!

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    { Saturday, 16 October, 2004 }

    Ah, yes. A night on the town after a day of sacred laziness. It's looking like an absolutely beautiful and crisp night.

    Enjoy it yourselves...

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    { Wednesday, 13 October, 2004 }

    Stay tuned for live debate analysis with arch-pundits Robin, Joshua, and the spiced green onion dip...!

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    { Thursday, 07 October, 2004 }