Archive for May, 2003
Friday, May 9th, 2003
“I worked for a collegiate chicken wing place….”
Thus spoke Ryan Schuette last night for no apparent reason.
I spent 4 hideous hours this morning in traffic court. No coffee beforehand, no reading during, and only sporadic opportunities to log on to check email or
IM…the only distraction allowed from listening to the guy sitting behind me who kept grunting in pain from some [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2003
“Speaking of Botswana….”
This was a night of several memorable/odd/bizarre utterances. The above was by Bill Hobby after our racquetball match; I mentioned I would probably end up
stationed somewhere like Botswana, and then he related a story about when he told Malcolm Gillis he was going to Botswana, and Gillis, in his inimitable fashion,
warned him that Botswana [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
Eilt, eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen">Eilt, eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen
Set up a streaming media server, so that folks can listen to recordings I make (both audio and video) without having to wait for the entire file to download.
This first one is my aria from the Bach Society’s Good Friday
performance of the St. John Passion.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
More idiots who sue">More idiots who sue
Undeterred by the failure of the McDonald’s lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed it was
the restaurant, not their own ignorance and behavior, that caused their obesity, a man who lost his life savings in slot machines is suing the casino where he
dropped the money.
Just as I was sorry for the kids in the McD’s suit who [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
As if needed, more proof that I am different from other people
One of the things I like about summer is getting into my car after it has been in the sun all day (and I have been in overly-air-conditioned buildings), and just
sit, soaking in the heat, feeling it in my mouth as I breathe, until the sweat starts beading on my face. Did it for [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
Spiffiness
Added the BBC News ticker to the header, as well as an old tagline of mine, “Redmondo delenda est,” which points to a site
that I strongly identify with lately. Cato the Elder ended all his speeches in the Roman Senate
with “Carthago delenda est,” or, “Carthage must be destroyed.” Redmond, WA, is the home [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2003
No good deed goes unpunished
At church this morning they made an appeal for platelet donors. Since I had about 3.5 hours to kill between the end of the
11am service and rehearsal for Evensong, I went over to the Blood Center and plopped myself down.
After explaining my travels in Europe since 1980, that I hadn’t slept with anyone, HIV-infected [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Barry White is from Galveston
While at Sam’s, picked up a copy of Kinky
Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette. And I bought it even without Vane prompting me. Funny stuff. And thoughtful stuff, too:
Years ago, my mother had a sign on her desk….It read, “Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given.” That may be as close [...]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2003
Home Theater Extravaganza
Went electronics shopping with David this afternoon. After shopping around and comparing components and prices and checking online, we got a good deal from Paul
Singh at the Home Theater Store on Westheimer. Ended up getting 5 B&W LM-1s for the speakers, a B&W ASW-300
subwoofer, and a Denon AVR-2803 receiver. Picked up a
little [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2003
Hot Springs, Here I Come?
Just got off the phone with Laura Rosenberg (executive director, arts administration & chorus director - Hot Springs Music
Festival), and the upshot is if they like my sound, then I’ll be doing the role of Speaker and understudying Papageno in their new English version of Magic
Flute the first two weeks of June. Sending them [...]