Archive for August, 2002
Thursday, August 29th, 2002
delicious moment of panic
woke up this morning around 6:50, and padded downstairs to the computer to check the weather for today, since i wanted to ride in.
that’s funny.. why does my computer’s clock say 7:54? oh, crap.
seems as though my alarm clock was set to the wrong hour. luckily, the bus i wound up catching was [...]
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Wednesday, August 28th, 2002
went out for dinner last
went out for dinner last night with the Special Lady Friend. on a whim we went to a very nice japanese fusion/sushi place. they have such fantastic stuff there, although chaya is still my favorite place for straight-up sushi.
in other news, my best friend had his baby yesterday morning. spencer was 7 [...]
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Tuesday, August 27th, 2002
so very close now.
so very close now.
all the nasty, cummy mattresses scavanged from curbs in oakland are wrapped in heavy-duty plastic.
finished putting up all the framing last night, even got one of the 3 plywood sheets with all the t-nuts hung. tomorrow night we’re all meeting to collect “monies” (startup contributions, first month’s rent, etc.), hang the [...]
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Monday, August 26th, 2002
i figured out yesterday that
i figured out yesterday that i am definitely not cut out to be a carpenter.
a group of about 15 climbers from our gym have decided to build a climbing co-op. we’re tired of everything; the routes, the lack of air conditioning or even a fan, crap music on the radio, and bad attitude. [...]
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2002
rode my bike downtown today!
rode my bike downtown today! it felt quite good to be doing something so healthy, although it felt not quite as good to be getting up a half hour earlier. i took a more lengthy route down, because i’m still getting used to the idea that i can ride on the road without [...]
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Friday, August 9th, 2002
my life is a Dilbert cartoon
scary as it is, this actually happened at my job a few weeks ago:
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Thursday, August 8th, 2002
at my new scary bus
at my new scary bus stop, there’s some graffiti on the station. my favorite is some words that are spray-painted into the steps coming down from the platform. they’re all in the same handwriting and in the same color, so i’m assuming it was the same person.
on the first landing it says “reefer”
on [...]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
karma
karma (if you believe in that sort of thing (and i don’t)) is a strange thing.
on the walk to the bus yesterday from work it rained. hard. “torrential” might be a good word to describe it. i already had my gore-tex jacket, but i figured with the sideways rain i should beef [...]
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Thursday, August 1st, 2002
i’m on the bus heading
i’m on the bus heading home last night with a female coworker of mine. we got on the topic of strip clubs, which led to lesbian strippers, which then finally led to lesbians. she told me about a trip she took down to new orleans to visit a friend of hers who was [...]
