Not closing, just… intermittenter.
This blog is not closed; it is not closing; it does not anticipate closure anytime in the near future. It’s just sporadic as always. And, as always, there are many things that are the same, and a few things that are different.
Same? I’m still alive; so are Fred and the cats and the fish. I’m still married to Fred, and the state of Missouri and the United States of America still think that it’s a dangerous dangerous thing. My job still sucks, only more emphatically now. My classes are still rolling right along, one term into the next. I still help answer e-mail for the Wikimedia Foundation, and we still get a lot of silly questions like “I found an error, could you get one of your staff to fix it?”. (stock answer: “You can edit that.”) And I still work out and cook and drive a Mini.
Different? Fred’s done with this round of school; he should get his provisional licensure veryverysoon. (The graduation ceremony was a raucous affair; thank goodness we didn’t sit near any screamer-clusters.) Nigel’s driver’s-side window got replaced; next up is his windscreen. The gay men’s chorus’s artistic director resigned; bit of drama there, but I won’t go into it because frankly it’s played out, so instead I’ll just say that I’m eager to see how the interim director does.
There is now a deck off the back of our place. It replaces the quick hack of a railing and gives us a chance to grow our own herbs and tomatoes. Basil and chives apparently love the strawberry jar out there now; rosemary not so much.
And the snail in the aquarium died. Alas, poor Norbert; I knew him.
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Finally getting into my major courses in school, and even then I’m bored silly. Introductory-level courses are aaaaalmost done, though; once I can convince my advisor that my transferred calculus credit should meet the college algebra pre-req for some higher-level courses, then I should finally get to something moderately challenging.
That said, the history class I took in the summer session? Fuckin’ A, that class was awesome. No homework, just quizzes and tests; lots of engaging lectures; got done two hours early every night. Hope I get the same instructor for the other half of history.
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Some days, I’m tempted to learn Lisp, just so I can wax poetic about parentheses.
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Trying to find someplace inexpensive for a vacation. We did Toronto over the winter and loved it; if things work out then we’d love to go back. I’m open to suggestions in the meantime, though.
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I have a couple posts brewing about Wikipedia internal stuff, so non-junkies should brace themselves or skip past them.
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I can’t say that I’ve been good at keeping this place up; when I have the motivation, I don’t have the time, and when I have the time I don’t have the motivation. Sorry. However, I need to remind everyone of the glories of RSS (feed’s on the right side); just subscribe to the feed and your newsreader will catch updates as they are posted.
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Finally: I should take this opportunity to plant songs in people’s heads, because I can and because I’m apparently quite good at it. So only click this link if you want to see what is currently haunting my dreams. (This link haunts my dreams too, though in a strange a capella version [if "a capella" meant "the only instruments are voices and slide whistles" (the second tenors get the kickin' guitar part)]; these songs occasionally make an entrance as well, especially that fourth one on the list.)
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