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Archive for October 2009

three minutes for your teeth

On 26 October 2009

HALF A DOZEN YEARS OF WOW Last Tuesday, we celebrated the six-year anniversary of the day life stopped being Good and started being Wicked Awesome, otherwise known as Nora’s adoption day. The day that an orphanage worker in a pink lab coat handed me a confused and runny-nosed baby, who stared at us in puzzlement […]

superfine system

On 19 October 2009

WOW THAT WAS OVER A WEEK AGO Unlike some other attendees, I simply am unable to wax philosophical about sisterhood and such as a result of my Broad Summit experience. I get all deep-n’-meaningful when it suits me, but mostly about things like waffle fries and volume controls. I’ll sum up the weekend by saying […]

brian eno can do a thousand push-ups

On 8 October 2009

BURNING DOWN MESSING UP THE HOUSE Today I worked from home, which involves a surprising amount of actual work. Here I do have nature’s greatest timewaster (the Internet), but I also have multiple easily-obtained cups of tea, instead of the tedious crawling-around-on-the-floor process of plugging in my illegal work teapot. I also have a window […]

five gears in reverse

On 5 October 2009

THAT’S A LARGE APPLE Where were we? Oh yeah, LT and I were getting ready to take Nora to NYC for a weekend. Nora was an excellent companion and a great sport. There were only a few hairy moments on the way back from the Statue of Liberty, and to be fair that was the […]