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Things I Don't Want
Oct. 20th, 2009 11:03 pm- If you need a toilet, there's one on 38th St with a "Free! (it works)" sign attached.
- NgithOwl bossman already had swine flu, if only for a week.
Points of Interest: Random Presents = Good
May. 1st, 2009 11:13 pm- 08:37 Wish I could do this (XKCD): ping.fm/OFrF9 Also like ping.fm/ymBjP
- 08:43 Drat. Here's the *correct* Mpls panhandling link: ping.fm/06Mf0
12:27 Pondering a surgical mask photoshoot this weekend, if I could talk anyone into it.
(Who's Afraid of a) Pandemic Photoshoot?
May. 1st, 2009 12:32 pmWhat locals can I talk into doing a photo shoot with me this weekend? I want to get some flu pandemic shots--by which I mean ones with surgical masks in them.
Edited to add: Or maybe not. The two places I stopped at looking for surgical masks were sold out. Walgreens said they'd been sold out since Monday, and "won't be getting any more any time soon." I'm guessing manufacturers weren't prepared for a sudden surge. No in-demand stock photos for me, I guess.
Edited to add: Or maybe not. The two places I stopped at looking for surgical masks were sold out. Walgreens said they'd been sold out since Monday, and "won't be getting any more any time soon." I'm guessing manufacturers weren't prepared for a sudden surge. No in-demand stock photos for me, I guess.
Points of Interest: Are...You...
Apr. 26th, 2009 08:12 pm- 11:37 Are...You...ping.fm/Z5uXS
- 16:48 RT @pegkerr For fun, sub 'zombies' wherever you see 'economy': "It's a really lousy time to be looking for a job, what with the zombies."
- 23:10 XKCD also has opinions about, um, other's opinions about swineflu: ping.fm/J2Zhe
Details of the Day - Signs of the Times
Feb. 17th, 2009 10:03 pm- 11:10 Local law firms are laying off lawyers (at least 2 firms are clients). No wonder we've been having less business.
- 11:12 Oops. Link to news story re lawyers: ping.fm/jnnU4
- 16:23 It's been warm enough to open the back porch window for the cats. Reminded, they restlessly inspect all windows.
- 17:52 Anyone local want a coupon for a free 2-liter bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper? I thought it was regular. Don't want diet.
Details of the Day - Riiiiiiiipppp
Feb. 15th, 2009 10:04 pm- 00:20 Now new monitor is working on desktop, and old monitor is working with laptop. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.
- 14:04 Pants ripped right below the seat. Fortunately, *after* church. Still went to Midtown Market for lunch/browsing. Fun morning!
- 14:35 It's with great pleasure that I fill in '0' for hours worked this weekend.
- 17:42 How long does it take for food poisoning symptoms to show up? Ate about five hours ago, stomach now uncomfortable.
- 17:45 Updated Aswiebe's Market List: ping.fm/XjGdc
- 19:24 Feeling better, guess it was just an uncomfortable stomach, not food poisoning.
- 22:53 My dad got laid off--his teaching contract wasn't renewed. They've applied to teach in India again.
Inauguration Day
Jan. 21st, 2009 08:38 amYesterday, Inauguration Day, I shifted to the couch downstairs and worked on my laptop (yay in-home wireless!) so that I could watch all the inauguration events. I worked on critiques and responding to critiques instead of new writing. I got less done than I usually would, but it's surprising I was able to get anything else done at all.
I missed the swearing-in, though I've read about it since, but I watched almost all of the speech. I watched the poet (okay-not-great poem--that's the problem with writing something specifically for an occasion). I watched the news and the analysis and the beginning of the dinner and the parade and everything, all day long until I had to go to martial arts class.
This is the first time that the person I voted for for president has won. I know that's true for a lot of people in my age group, but it just sunk home. My guy won. I have confidence in his ability and his good intentions. I trust that he shares my most important values. It is a damn heady feeling. I have done my civic duty with grim determination ever since I was old enough to vote. I've voted in every election, presidential or not. I have never felt happy like this before.
I begin to see the magic of Camelot reborn. I'm interested on a personal level in what President Obama will do next. I want to know about the puppy his daughters pick. For goodness' sake, I'm interested in what Michelle chooses to wear--and no, I'm not usually at all interested in fashions. A little fairydust adheres to anything they do.
I don't even like watching the news, usually. I prefer to read my news. But yesterday, I spent all day sitting in front of the television following the events of the day.
I missed the swearing-in, though I've read about it since, but I watched almost all of the speech. I watched the poet (okay-not-great poem--that's the problem with writing something specifically for an occasion). I watched the news and the analysis and the beginning of the dinner and the parade and everything, all day long until I had to go to martial arts class.
This is the first time that the person I voted for for president has won. I know that's true for a lot of people in my age group, but it just sunk home. My guy won. I have confidence in his ability and his good intentions. I trust that he shares my most important values. It is a damn heady feeling. I have done my civic duty with grim determination ever since I was old enough to vote. I've voted in every election, presidential or not. I have never felt happy like this before.
I begin to see the magic of Camelot reborn. I'm interested on a personal level in what President Obama will do next. I want to know about the puppy his daughters pick. For goodness' sake, I'm interested in what Michelle chooses to wear--and no, I'm not usually at all interested in fashions. A little fairydust adheres to anything they do.
I don't even like watching the news, usually. I prefer to read my news. But yesterday, I spent all day sitting in front of the television following the events of the day.
Details of the Day - Inauguration Day
Jan. 20th, 2009 10:08 pm- 13:55 Working downstairs on my laptop so I can watch all the inauguration coverage on TV.
- 13:56 Statuary Hall is decidedly creepy. Just sayin'.
- 14:05 "The Color Purple" is a great book, but the idea of it as a musical is kinda horrifying.
- 00:02 I am tired to the point of being very cranky about "having" to go to bed. Sigh--maybe I should read my inner 2-year-old a story.
- 12:19 Egyptologists collect all these artifacts--does that mean they'll be richest in the afterlife?
- 14:40 Was planning on working all day to make up hours--until was told I make too much to work on this project. :(
- 15:58 + Survived trek home through blizzard. Now have hot chocolate, heated slippers, and cats.
- 18:52 They're saying this will be the coldest week of the year in Minnesota. Brrr!
- 18:58 iStockphoto took my "store going out of business" photos, though they've rejected others of equal quality. Gee, wonder why?
- 09:23 Wait--it's not even really winter yet? Coulda fooled me.
- 09:39 MPR is reporting on its own layoffs. That's a bit surreal.
- 09:40 Sorry--*N*PR.
- 09:43 Puppy at work!
- 22:49 Have fingerprint bruises on my arm and leg. Ah, joint manipulation techniques.
Details of the Day
Nov. 6th, 2008 10:17 pm- 12:50 Walked through fog to get to work, am now practically the only person here. Eerie.
- 13:16 It's been so slow at work they even cleaned the fridge and microwave.
- 15:04 Movie: ping.fm/nHR8Q
- 17:08 On bus ride home, saw beat-up van with "We Need A Job" written in large letters on the windows.
Photograph: No bailout, you say?
Nov. 6th, 2008 09:36 pm
Now that the politics are mostly settled, I expect everybody's going to go back to being upset over the economy, right?
Details of the Day
Nov. 5th, 2008 10:14 pm- 23:19 Somebody in the neighborhood is setting off fireworks.
- 07:55 Norm Coleman won. Slimy bastard.
- 08:58 On elevator: "I'm in withdrawal. This morning I didn't see my close personal friends Erik Paulson & Ashwin Media. A toothpaste ad was on!"
- 09:20 I keep getting these upswellings of glee as I read through the news.
- 10:48 Only 3 more hours of not killing my coworker to go.
Details of the Day
Nov. 4th, 2008 10:22 pm- 23:41 Just chose who I'm voting for based on their correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Both candidates are awful. Ugh.
- 23:51 Whew. Have figured out who we're voting for, down to the water board. (Yes, my vote choice counts x2.)
- 07:45 Dreamt I'd already voted. Alas, not so.
- 08:53 A steady stream of people was going into my polling place as I passed it at 7AM.
- 08:54 At freeway on-ramps, people holding political signs have replaced pan-handlers. Awesome.
- 09:27 Coworker just took off to vote, hoping to be "back by 12:00"
- 10:51 Having serious trouble fighting off a case of the sleepies at work.
- 12:05 I'm wired (because of election) and sleepy (because of staying up late to figure out who to vote for in the small races).
- 16:48 Chose my voting time perfectly. 2 PM, no line at all.
- 16:50 "Inner city youths" are shouting Obama's name at passing cars and doing little (premature) victory dances on the street corner.
- 20:37 Phil says 331 club is way on the other side of town & so he won't be going there. Watching results @ home.
- 23:09 Obama won!!! First time the presidential candidate I voted for won. Wow. What now? I'm not used to this.
- 23:19 Somebody in the neighborhood is setting off fireworks.
Yesterday afternoon I volunteered for a political campaign for the first time.
I went to the Minneapolis office and wound up working the phone bank. It's a large ground-floor room with ranks of foldable tables for the phone bank and the data entry stations. The front of the office was poster and leaflet center. There were some interesting decorating touches. A very shiny wall mural of Obama. Some Barack o'lanterns. One of the things I wished I'd taken pictures of was an AC/DC style poster for Barack. Or that I'd grabbed one. In the back, they had the quite generous snack layout and the restroom, which had a sign on the inside asking people to make sure the door was unlocked when they left--signed "Barack."*
I was afraid I'd get shuffled into data entry (which I'm good at, but--yech, too much like work), but they assigned me to making phone calls to people who'd supposedly expressed interest in volunteering instead. This felt a bit surreal to me. I was only there to volunteer for a few hours, probably not going to be going back--and I was calling people to encourage them to volunteer this weekend and election day. It was also strange volunteering at Democratic headquarters, what with me not being a Democrat** and all. Phone calls in the middle of the afternoon don't actually get many people, so most of what I did was leave messages, though I did get a handful of volunteers committed.
So, if you support Obama and want to do something to help, they really need volunteers for election day and for this weekend. They're looking for people to drive others to the polls, to knock on doors, and to make phone calls. Find your local office.
* Side note: I wonder how many kids born this year are going to be named Barack? Lots, I imagine. I'm picturing kindergartens filled with 'em a few years from now.
** If you must know, unaffiliated, but I usually vote mostly a Green ticket, and that's where my "support a political party" tax money goes.
Details of the Day
Oct. 17th, 2008 11:19 pm- 07:06 I should learn never to plan on what I'll be doing during downtime, because then the downtime will go away.
- 09:31 The Realtors want me to know the housing market is "fundamentally sound." Bad word choice.
- 11:50 Again the people at work think I'm vegetarian. This confuses all of us.
- 12:23 Beginning to suspect the "free pizza" was just a ploy to keep me working longer.
- 19:38 An essential part of party preparation, oft-forgotten: an extra roll of toilet paper in the bathroom.
- 20:16 Hanging out with Donnie, who seems to have gotten really into UFO conspiracy theory of late. Excellent fodder.
Details of the Day
Oct. 14th, 2008 11:18 pm- 07:51 Time to turn on my bike taillight in the morning. And to dig out that box of gloves and hats. It's--brisk outside.
- 14:19 Potential problem with slow-cooker dinner: the tasty food-smells are making me hungry. Hrm.
- 18:41 Dear Fictionwise, No. Please do not offer me an "eBook Bailout." Just--no.
