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It looks as though I wrote a blog post a few days ago, and somehow it vanished into the aether. Not sure what happened. At any rate, here is a quick post to make up for that missing one. This evening, Sara and I went to see Lincoln. We both liked …

I’ve been cutting down on coffee lately, from maybe three or four cups a day down to one. It’s been pretty easy — no headaches — but I notice that I’m tired more often than I used to be. My understanding of drug tolerance is that it takes one’s …

That’s what the banner says, at least. I guess I have to do something. I was thinking I’d move to Wordpress, but then a friend suggested I could use Tumblr. Kind of thinking I should host my own thing, because I don’t want to get stuck with yet an…

I wanted to try hooking my guitar to my Mac, so I looked up cables. I thought I’d need some kind of fancy cable that would translate electric guitar into bits, but no: it turns out you just need a 6.25mm cable plug one end with a 3.5mm plug on the…

The kids have today off from school, and I’m off from work, so it’s not much of a holiday for me. Sara’s at work today. Yesterday, she gave me a break, and I tried to get ahead on my Beeminders. Today, in the morning, as we do on non-school days, …

One of the issues that I have thought about for a long time is the conflict between learning and creativity. In some ways, there shouldn’t be a conflict at all. That is, if one sets out to create, one usually learns the things necessary to do crea…

Placeholder post to tell all about our Tahoe trip. It turns out, when you go skiing, and you don’t have family to lend you all the clothes and gear you need for skiing, it’s expensive. The Tahoe trip was as expensive as going to Alaska.

We’re getting ready for a trip to Tahoe — more fun in the snow this weekend. I’m not an experienced downhill skiier. I’ve actually only gone once, but I’m going to take lessons this weekend. Apparently I have to get some equipment or special clot…

I broke the blogpact. I went eight days without blogging. I didn’t mean to do it, but it just happened. So, here I am again, frantically typing out a shit post so I can abide by at least the letter, if not the spirit, of the pact. Ah, yes. So, wha…

Our bathroom sink is blocked up today, and we can’t get ahold of a plumber because it’s Saturday. I got this cool new Moleskine notebook with a picture of a Johnny Chair on it. Unfortunately, I haven’t really used it yet, because I can’t think of …