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Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 10:54 am Lincoln?
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sheep inside
Current Location: Milam and Rusk, Houston, TX
Current Mood: Concerned

I'm hearing over on Facebook that Lincoln (who dates back from my day in the 4M) had a heart attack.

Anyone have any news on this?
Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 09:18 pm Voice Post
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“Oh My God, I'm the father of a high school graduate.”

Transcribed by: [info]maverick_weirdo
Jun. 1st, 2009 @ 08:03 am I can't be THAT old, can I?
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nelladave
Current Location: 11791
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: The tick-toct-tock-tock of the clock on the wall
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As of 3:37 PM today (NY time), I will be the parent of only one minor child.

Happy 18th Birthday, ElderSon! Love you.
May. 2nd, 2009 @ 06:50 pm More sad news for the filk community
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Current Location: 11791
Current Mood: shocked
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http://community.livejournal.com/filk/412255.html
Jan. 26th, 2009 @ 09:14 pm Remembering Greg
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Current Location: CH-8004
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: None, really tired now
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I'm dead tired, just got home from a long, long day at work and am soon for bed, but wanted to note that it was a year ago that I got one of the worst phone calls of my life.

The filk family lost someone very special that day.
Aug. 4th, 2008 @ 08:24 am Back from the Woods!
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Current Mood: sleepy
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Back from a week at Scout camp and back off to Zurich today. My pants are, as they say, beyond bankrupt, given I was barely reading LJ in the week or two before I flew back to the US and I had no computer access (or, for that matter, phone access) at camp.

So...what's been up? Anything important I should know about? All comments here screened, so line 'em up, point me at what's going on so I have a vague chance of catching up before I head back to Zurich!
Jun. 4th, 2008 @ 01:44 am One thing about the new flat...
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sheep inside
Current Location: CH-8004
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Somethig on the radio

There are churches in the area.

Churches have bells.

At least I don't need to set a 7AM alarm if I sleep with the window open.

Other than that, at least during the week it's a nice and quiet area. No idea if it turns into Party Central on weekends yet!
May. 31st, 2008 @ 11:36 pm Post Bar Mitzvah
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Current Mood: happy
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Today he is a man. On Monday, he's back in 7th Grade.

He did great :) More about it tomorrow!
May. 31st, 2008 @ 07:52 am OK!
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Current Mood: excited
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Just about dressed, just about to head out the door!

Soon, soon, my YoungerSon will be a bar mitzvah. And I'm very proud of him.
May. 30th, 2008 @ 10:50 pm TOMORROW!
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Current Mood: tired
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Less than 24 hours from now and I can have my brain back. And I even get to sleep in tomorrow..the alarm's not set 'til 7...

Yes, I'm SURE YoungerSon will shine.
May. 27th, 2008 @ 09:26 pm YoungerSon's bar mitzvah...
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Current Mood: busy
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...is eating my brain.

Remembering that I don't know Hebrew WITH vowels; I'm going to be reading from the Torah? With no vowels and no punctuation?

What was I thinking??
May. 24th, 2008 @ 10:26 pm More movies!
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Current Location: 11791
Current Mood: cheerful
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Tonight, the boys and I went to see Iron Man. Definitely a fun film and we had a great time (although I think they were a little more enthused at Speed Racer). As superhero/comic films go, it was decidedly one of the best.

And coooooool suit :) No big surprise there.

And, as others have said, stay 'til the very very end of the credits.
May. 9th, 2008 @ 07:04 pm Don't these people have lives?
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Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: People busily typing
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Friday night. 7PM.

Full team still here working, so I'm still here working.

WTF is wrong with them?
Apr. 28th, 2008 @ 09:29 am The new place in Zurich...
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Current Location: Work
Current Mood: tired
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I cannot adequately describe how it fails to even rise to the level of "sucks."

Tiny, noisy, hot, bad location.

It's a 10' x 20' room, of which the bed takes up a nontrivial portion. The cooking facilities are roughly nonexistent; there's a fold-up hot plate with a single burner -- I can have the burner or the counter, but not both. The table is large enough for a single plate of whatever it is I don't have enough room to cook; there are two chairs as well.

The wardrobe has enough room for either my clothes to hang, OR my suitcase, but not both. Between the bed and the TV, there's not enough room to fully open the door/window out to the small balcony.

Due to the proximity of Bahnhof Oerlikon and an active construction site, it's impossible to sleep with the window open; it's too hot to sleep with the window closed (although there's no airflow at all, so it doesn't help much). The walls of the place are such that any noise such as the neighbour's doorbell or the door being opened or closed ring through the entire apartment; an issue when the neighbours are coming in at 2 in the morning.

My dorm room in university was significantly better than this.

There's no room for my children to visit for any extended period; there's barely room for a single person in there.

Not acceptable
Apr. 24th, 2008 @ 07:04 pm More Zurichy bits
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sheep inside
Current Location: CH-8003
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hawkwind, "Elric the Enchanter"
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I move flats tomorrow AM. To a place on the other side of the city. Doable by tram, but 40 minutes each way. Yuck. I don't know what the neighbourhood there is like yet; I may go over tonight to scope it out.

Last night's Morcheeba concert at the Volkshaus was great, musically, and I'm really glad I went (and hey, Heather Nova's playing there in October, should the project go on that long!) but a little weird to my New York eye. The people sitting in the gallery seats above were...sitting. And down where I was on the dance floor, most people weren't dancing, not even swaying to the music. I can't begin to imagine that happening in New York.

It's finally not raining today! There was even some BLUE up in the sky!

Time to do something about dinner and pack up for the move.
Apr. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:16 pm The weather in Zurich?
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Current Location: CH-8003
Current Mood: wet
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Sucks.
Apr. 16th, 2008 @ 01:25 am One thing about mornings...
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sheep inside
Current Location: ch-8003
Current Mood: sleepy
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Late to bed
And early to rise
Makes a man tired
(That's no surprise)

Must get more than 4 hours of sleep tonight.
Apr. 11th, 2008 @ 02:09 am Updatey things from Zurich
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Right, post by email no longer seems to work from my work addy, and I can't get to any of my gmail stuff from $CLIENT, so I'm way behind on posting.

Last night, we went out for "a few drinks" after work. For some value of "a few" that meant "a lot."

Wow, they can go at it. I stopped drinking fairly early, myself, because I'd rather NOT drink that much anymore, thanks. Also, this being Switzerland, there's no such thing as a nonsmoking bar the way we have in the USA (or even, as far as I can tell, a nonsmoking section of a restaurant). People smoke all over the place here -- there are smoking rooms at the office (!).

After drinks and food, we went out clubbing, which was interesting and my legs may direct me to take ibuprofen later today.

Workwise, the project is frustrating me. Our application still isn't installed on my desktop, so I'm mainly doing minor stuff, not what I should be doing. Seriously, they're paying lots of money to have me here writing Excel macros -- you'd have thought that they would have been set up for me by now.

I'm trying to use as much German and French as I can. Usually, they make me switch to English ;)

And now, just about time to meet the team for breakfast and the end of a workweek, and then it's off to Luzern for a weekend!
Mar. 31st, 2008 @ 04:51 pm Smoke Rings
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Current Location: Glenn Curtiss Blvd, Uniondale, NY
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Laurie Anderson, "Smoke Rings"
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La primero pregunta es: Que es mas macho - pineapple o knife ?
Mar. 29th, 2008 @ 08:57 am Packing...
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sheep inside
Current Location: Sprucewood Drive, Levittown, NY 11756
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The kids watching YouTube.
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...the last hurrah begins. But I finally believe that I'll get it all done. Good lord willin' and the crick don't rise, I'll have nothing big left here by the afternoon and can just clean stuff.

And I've said this on IRC, but, but to make it public...

[info]bardling? [info]djbp? You may officially laugh at me. I have Too Much Stuff.
Mar. 27th, 2008 @ 11:28 am ::speechless::
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oh good god
Current Location: Glenn Curtiss Blvd, Uniondale, NY
Current Mood: disgusted
Current Music: Eloy, "The Stranger"
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Warning: This may be triggery for people who are parents or like small children. )
Mar. 27th, 2008 @ 11:17 am Because people on my Flist play WoW
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omgpwn, victory
Current Location: Glenn Curtiss Blvd, Uniondale, NY
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Aimee Mann, "Stupid Thing"
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The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.

The specific example is battle, but I'm guessing you could automate almost anything.
Mar. 26th, 2008 @ 09:08 am Firefox and Gmail Chat?
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Current Mood: confused
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Can someone explain why, on this new laptop, Gmail chat doesn't work in Firefox? Googling indicates that it might be a problem with AdBlockPlust, but I'm running the same AdBlockPlus and the same version of Firefox, as my old machine, and mail.google.com is whitelisted in the former. Even with ABP turned off and the cache cleared...it's a no-go.

Gmail chat works in Firefox on my old laptop and on my desktop in my increasingly empty flat.

Any ideas?
Mar. 24th, 2008 @ 05:40 pm Just so people know
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Current Location: Glenn Curtiss Blvd, Uniondale, NY
Current Mood: tired and calm
Current Music: Kristin Hersh, "Hips and Makers"
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Not Ded. Not even remotely Ded. Not even remotely unhappy with not being Ded.

But still not all packed.

Beyond tired.

Unlikely to be online before or after working hours for the next few days. I may possibly reply to text messages or phone calls.

If there's anything you think I've missed fro the weekend or will be missing in the next week, leave me a comment here -- they're all screened.
Mar. 13th, 2008 @ 03:49 pm Be nice to me
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Current Location: Glenn Curtiss Blvd, Uniondale, NY
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Letters to Cleo, "Here & Now"
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Bandage
Originally uploaded by filkerdave.

Be nice to me.

I gave blood today.