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orangepaisley |
14:47 | Conservative on the outside, freaky on the inside Everytime I think I'm ready to embrace my all-too-normal day job, buy a real car, move to Round Rock, and vote Republican, I see this and my first thought is Hey! That sounds like the perfect place for me! I might never really grow up. *sigh* Aktuala Mood:  crazyAktuala Music: Michael Buble -- You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
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infinitevoid |
14:47 | Printempo Du amoremaj birdoj en la strato. Unu tro malrapidis. Plumoj malantaŭ la aŭto. Aktuala Mood: :(
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mywornoutmasks |
13:23 | Agree or Disagree? The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. -M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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kaiball |
13:20 | Throw Them Into the Deep End When I was a kid my dad used to blindfold me and drive out into the countryside. Throw Them Into the Deep End on My Time as a Human
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orangepaisley |
12:55 | What has NASA found? Damn Portlanders want to know. And so do I. Aktuala Mood:  anxiousAktuala Music: Massive Attack -- Teardrop
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austingoddess |
11:05 | more LOL politics ( cut for your protection )
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beginner_guitar [ trav23 ] |
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jaylake |
04:35 | [cancer] "I was waiting on the pad / all systems were go" The fear is gone this morning. Well, not gone, but sitting in its cubbyhole like an kindergarten hamster. The big Fear is lurking with it. I can't guarantee they won't return, but for now I am a millpond. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lasirenadolce has done a Production Book. We're calling this whole festival "Pink Macaroni". This thing is amazing, and when the dust settles a bit, one of us will post about it in detail. Basically it lets my family and friends know everything about my condition, preferences, medical situation, contingency plans, and so forth. Something happens, good or bad, all they do is look in the book.In other words in times of stress that means less thinking, more caring. They have promised me part of the colon section back in a jar. Imagine the endless possibilities for humor (or a charity auction donation). My (step)mother observed that I need to get one of my friends to knit me a colon cozy. As for this morning, I am heading for the hospital dressed like I'm going to a con. May as well go to battle with all flags flying. the_child left me a sweet note last night after I went to bed (and I did sleep well). I'll have the knitted tumor kateyule made for me, which I've asked to have as soon as they'll let me in recovery or the surgery ward."NO TUBE" is written on my right nostril in Sharpie. "NOT HERE" is written on each elbow, per a suggestion in comments. The house is being made ready for me to return sometime next week. All that's left is to go. As the man said, I'll be back. I love you all. Aktuala Mood: waiting Aktuala Music: Queen, "Who Wants to Live Forever" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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willyumtx |
04:01 | Feeling cruddy. Took a nap after the dental work. That was good. Got up and got to work. Others are work told me I should have just stayed home. But since I had a unit meeting and wasn´t feeling that bad, I decided to show. Well, it was okay at first. Somewhat tired, but I felt better having my tooth fixed and on the antihistamines. ( Read more... )
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jaylake |
20:21 | [personal|cancer] The day that was I spent the first part of the day closing out and handing off tasks at the day job, the next part of the day coping with Fleet (which beats the tar out of a gallon of GoLYTEly), then in a presurgery intake appointment, then time with the extended family, before settling down for a movie with the_child while lasirenadolce does her thing on prepping and planning the next two weeks.No more prep for me. A short night's sleep, out of Nuevo Rancho Lake a little before 5 am, and into the OR. They're supposed to start cutting around 7:30 am Pacific time, and a preliminary guess is that I'll be in recovery around 9:30, and out to a surgery wing bed in the early afternoon. lasirenadolce will update here as time and Internet access permits.Meanwhile, life continues to hand me good news. A friend emailed that she saw a whole pocket of the Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb  | Audible ] mass market paperback in a WalMart in El Paso. Today the_child made the cut for a role in the professional performance of ¡Entusiasmo!. I've told her that wanting to see her perform is what will bring me out of the hospital.Y'all play nice while I'm gone. There'll be a quiz once I'm back. Aktuala Mood:  tiredAktuala Music: Pirates 3 on the DVD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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mywornoutmasks |
18:20 | Burma or Myanmar? Since Burma/Myanmar has recently been in the news, I have become aware of this so-called name change. Most news reports here in the US have been using "Myanmar," which initially left me scratching my head in confusion. I had never heard of a country called Myanmar and wondered where the hell it was and why it wasn't remotely familiar to me. I quickly learned that I wasn't quite the idiot I thought I was-- Myanmar is Burma! Ah, okay then. Of course I'd heard of Burma, but then I wondered why the name was changed at all. Because most of my LJ friends seem to be pretty on top of world events, I will assume most know the reason for the controversial name change and I won't condescend to explain it. In any case, it reminds me of this catchy little ditty: Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul (Istanbul) Istanbul (Istanbul) Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul! But they forgot Byzantium... Anyway, my question for you all is which name do you use for that cognominally conflicted Southeast Asian country and why? Aktuala Mood:  tired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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beginner_guitar [ letsplayfootsie ] |
17:29 | Les Paul finishes Hi, fellow guitarists! Quick question: I am absolutely in love with the Les Paul Standard, and I'm looking to buy one when I get really, really good (I've only been playing about 4 months). I'd really love to get a genuine Gibson, rather than an Epiphone. The epiphone website seems to have a lot more finishes listed than Gibson though, and I'm wondering, does anyone know if Gibson also makes Les Pauls with the Union Jack finish, or is that finish Epiphone exclusive? Thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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sonjaaa |
14:48 | Doom lives on! Doom 4 was announced yesterday. Doom II was the classic first-person shooter game we played in grade 10, a mix of demonic and almost Lovecraftian horror. Our school had a "computer users student organization" that would meet during lunch time, but all we did was play Doom II on the school's LAN. Up to 16 people in deathmatch! So we nicknamed it the "Doom student organization". Many of us still play Doom II online for free using Zdaemon. I particularly enjoy the coop mode where 16 people can work together to shoot down the demons and complete a level! Let's not forget Doom, the Roguelike for and even olderskool, rich ASCII experience!
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willyumtx |
11:12 | Dentist - crown Well, I was sorta stressed about today´s procedure. Had to get a crown. Tooth #18 had decay underneath the filling. And the filling came out last Friday. So saw the dentist on Monday morning and told I needed a crown and possibly a root canal - depending on how close the decay had gotten to the pulp. So my main worry was having to get both procedures done. Not only would it be expensive, but it would take a while and stress me out. ( Read more... ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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kaiball |
11:10 | My Time as a Human in San Fran I went to San Francisco where I got church, showed Dicky to himself and made soap. I came back and met people on an airplane (with monkeys). All links to my public blog My Time as a Human. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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lrcutter |
08:55 | Watch my pretties! Watch! Tonight, my nephew in law is going to be on CSI! I won't be at tea because I feel I must support the family and watch CSI instead. But would still be open for dinner if anyone is interested. . . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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kaiball |
10:32 | Konundrumz There has been some grumbling about the fact that I'm posting teasers to my public blog and not just reposting here. I'm torn about doing it, so here are the reasons I'm doing it this way for public comment: - Tracking I want to be able to keep track of readership. I want to know when people are responsive and when they tune out, or when people start spending even less time reading these damned long essay style posts. I've already noticed an interesting trend in that no matter if I crosspost here or not, everyone reads on Mondays. I get a huge spike every time, which dips only a little if I don't advertise here on LJ. - Publicness I want to create some kind of public essence of Kainess. If everyone keeps saying, hey you should check this guy out and sending them here to LJ, I won't be able to keep them separate. - Eventual rent At some point I'd like to get google adsense working so that every time someone pulls up the page, I get a little of my hosting fees paid. The obvious trick here is in not pissing people off. Of course, the longer format of My Time as a Human isn't the kind of thing anyone wants to read every day anyhow. I think it's something that probably makes more sense to read only if the teaser grabs you, or you have extra time on a lunch break and want to catch up on a few at a time. Regardless, I'm going to keep 'em coming. It's certainly a challenge to keep up these daily posts, but it's also really enjoyable. There are still a few old rants clamoring to be released for once and for all and when that ends we'll see where it stands! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ivo |
10:14 | Chaos For those of you who think English pronunciation is easy or logical, I present to you this poem "The Chaos" by Dutch writer, traveler and teacher Dr Gerard Nolst Trenité from 1920. An excerpt: Dearest creature in creation A review of the poem notes: Readers will notice that The Chaos is written from the viewpoint of the foreign learner of English: it is not so much the spelling as such that is lamented, as the fact that the poor learner can never tell how to pronounce words encountered in writing (the poem was, after all, appended to a book of pronunciation exercises). With English today the prime language of international communication, this unpredictability of symbol-sound correspond-ence constitutes no less of a problem than the unpredictability of sound-symbol correspondence which is so bewailed by native speakers of English. Nevertheless, many native English-speaking readers will find the poem a revelation: the juxtaposition of so many differently pronounced parallel spellings brings home the sheer illogicality of the writing system in countless instances that such readers may have never previously noticed. So be sure to read the full poem and the review! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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anifsemaj |
09:51 | yep... that's where it feels like I am at any rate.... *chuckle* I like this one:
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stealthpup |
08:42 | Haiku thingie snagged from replyhazy I chose this one because it makes Just Enough Sense. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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jaylake |
05:01 | [cancer] The Door That Never Opens Twice Well, I'm on clears today. Last night was my last normal meal for, oh, quite a while. So I organized a family dinner at De Nicola's. lasirenadolce was back in Tacoma for some much-needed R&R, and kenscholes couldn't make it, but pretty much all the rest of the Portland family loop were there — the_child and her mother, Mom and Dad, tillyjane and her retrostepson S— (yes, we're a Southern family, why do you ask?), lillypond and her friend C—. as well as the Niece, my aunt M—, karindira and Youngest Daughter. We were a mob in the back room, the dinner culminating with a dramatically architectural cake baked by the_child. I believe there are photos somewhere, but I no got them.Amazingly I am still sleeping well, though tonight will be the killer. I am waking up quite early, and as I said yesterday, my world feels very narrowed. Anent the Big Fear, I'm down to two right now. There's the one which crosses over into rational fear, about playing an endless, downhill game of whack-a-mole with a metastatizing cancer. While's that's possible, to all clinical indications it seems unlikely. It still dogs me. The other is my unreasoning fear of general anaesthetic. I'm not even too crazy about sedation. I have my pre-op anaesthesiology consult today, and I will be rational, thoughtful and attentive, but by tomorrow morning the snakes in my gut will be the size of a sewer pipe coming out of my rib cage. I felt this way before I had my septum fixed back in 1999, and was fine. Like I said, unreasoning fear. Big Fear. Still, the true terror for me is not dying. Oddly, I seem to be able to accept that possibility, slight as it is, with an almost eerie calm. The true terror is dying without waking up first, and being unable to say good-bye. So to manage that part of the Big Fear, I am writing some sealed letters today, which I will make a ceremony of shredding, or possibly burning, when this is all over. Just so my voice can be heard by my daughter, my parents, everyone else whom I love, one last time should I somehow manage to pass through the Door That Never Opens Twice. I am brave today. Tomorrow immediately before the surgery I shall almost certainly be a gibbering craven. The day after that I will still be alive, and I will have won. Someday soon we shall all laugh together. Aktuala Mood: afraid and pretending not to b Aktuala Music: morning sounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ghewgill |
19:54 | antiphonetic alphabet The Antiphonetic Alphabet is sort of like the Phonetic Alphabet, only more confusing. Perhaps this should be called anacrophonic (see Acrophony).
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jaylake |
21:00 | [publishing] Good news, good news Got my royalty statement today from Tor anent Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb | Audible ].Without going into the gory details, it was very satisfying. I had to call arcaedia to confirm a few details, but we've got good sell through, while the hardback has very nearly accounted for the advance all on its own even before the paperback began warming the shelves. A big smile for me amid a week of buffeting. Aktuala Mood:  pleasedAktuala Music: the ticking of the grandfather clock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
