it's friday afternoon, and mr b and i have discovered that four and a half cents screws everything up.

i got this email from d. viewer discretion advised.

somehow i got listed here.

changes. ryan has now become mountaininterval.org. you want to read the rest of his travels in the southern hemisphere. elan also claims changes. and there are some imminent changes for me as well. stay tuned for those.

i played volleyball tonight. i am way out of shape, but it felt good and i hope to make it a regular thing.

keeping your body fit, keeping your mind fit. listen to this report from NPR.

challenge your senses. (thanks h)

last word. most people prefer to be the last one to say goodbye on the telephone. why is that? i've been conducting a little experiement, and i almost never have the last word, even if they are the one that said 'see ya' first. i think more people should be comfortable hanging up. my great grandmother used to just hang up the phone when she was done speaking, without really giving any warning.

i've realized that i've been clenching my teeth. a lot.

decisions. i'm going to buy a car. the irony is i'm going to buy back the same car i sold when i left for scotland. efficient, affordable, trusty honda. how i've missed you.

head in the clouds. since i've started reading. i mean, really reading. i've found a place with a window view that extends for fairly long distances. all the places have been at least 2 storeys up. there seems to be some natural connection between reading and having as a backdrop the slowly changing cloudscape. watching slowly the light grow and dim, the sky shift, crack, sharpen, blur, bleed, ooze, cry, freeze, twinkle, even sleep.

i'll be volunteering at the pittsburgh glass center tonight.

evan got his anthology put together and published. the launch party is next week. i wish i could be there to celebrate.

technology update. for all you bit-heads out there, check out the latest in RAID technology (thanks to elan). on an unrelated note, i spent many hours fiddling with my cd burner to get it to work. then burning multiple cds. concurrently, i spent about an hour and a half on the phone with ATT wireless support to fix my mobile AIM problem. i logged in the other day and now can't log out. still. i was on the phone so long my batter died and disconnected me. why do i even care? well, b/c if anyone tries to IM me, after all, it looks like i'm online, my phone will make a noise. it gets annoying. epsecially when you can't reply to whoever just IMed you.

nabbed by google

i have been in pittsburgh too long. after ridiculing my roommate for the lack of use of the be verb, a common 'yinser' characteristic, i wrote the following in an email:

The car needs inspected by the end of the month.

this sentence with proper grammar would be

The car needs to be inspected by the end of the month.

the snow is coming down in huge flakes. if you look quick, maybe you can watch.

this years first big virus attack

and ryan's blog is back up. lots to read since his departure for antactica. all in typical ryan style.

enjoyable evenings. last night was enjoyable. i had dinner with my dad to celebrate his birthday. we mutually agreed how nice it was to have pleasant conversation. afterward, he dropped me off on the south side to meet up w/ a. and some of her friends in celebration of her birthday. this sort of evening used to be commonplace. its rarity has made me point out this particular instance.