Friday, April 28, 2006
Sufjan Song Alert
I haven't even listened to it yet, but I will still recommend that you go here at once to download a free new Sufjam.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Thursday
Work is going OK today. I am working on a submission for the Ministry of Health - basically turning various plans into various diagrams, and throwing them into InDesign.
I am almost done with Surprised by Joy... it is pretty good. I will then read Reservation Blues, which I picked up at the library yesterday... ... ...
Sorry to bore you - I don't have much of interest to say.
I am almost done with Surprised by Joy... it is pretty good. I will then read Reservation Blues, which I picked up at the library yesterday... ... ...
Sorry to bore you - I don't have much of interest to say.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Updated...
So...
I am back at work after a couple of days off. My annoying cough was joined by a headache on Sunday night, which was unfortunately still hanging around in the morning.
Occasionally, my head hurts until I puke. After that, I usually feel slightly better. I slept most of Monday morning, and then Leah and I did some laundry in the afternoon... We went for a short walk that night too, 'cause our place is too small to be in for the whole day.
Tuesday was a little better. I pretty much just felt really tired the whole time. In the afternoon, we decided to go and see a movie... again, pretty much just to get out of the house.
Turns out it was one of those 'Moms and their babies' matinees. We had no idea; the movie listings in NOW said nothing about it... So we ended up watching a Woody Allen film with a bunch of babies. The whole time I was trying not to cough - I didn't want to be attacked by zealous mothers protecting their babies from infection. I'm pretty sure I was the only guy in the place over the age of 2.
Turns out the movie was nothing like I expected. It was good, but really dark, and not at all funny. I don't see how a baby could have enjoyed it at all.
I am back at work after a couple of days off. My annoying cough was joined by a headache on Sunday night, which was unfortunately still hanging around in the morning.
Occasionally, my head hurts until I puke. After that, I usually feel slightly better. I slept most of Monday morning, and then Leah and I did some laundry in the afternoon... We went for a short walk that night too, 'cause our place is too small to be in for the whole day.
Tuesday was a little better. I pretty much just felt really tired the whole time. In the afternoon, we decided to go and see a movie... again, pretty much just to get out of the house.
Turns out it was one of those 'Moms and their babies' matinees. We had no idea; the movie listings in NOW said nothing about it... So we ended up watching a Woody Allen film with a bunch of babies. The whole time I was trying not to cough - I didn't want to be attacked by zealous mothers protecting their babies from infection. I'm pretty sure I was the only guy in the place over the age of 2.
Turns out the movie was nothing like I expected. It was good, but really dark, and not at all funny. I don't see how a baby could have enjoyed it at all.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Heroes
Go to the Loitering Heroes myspace page at once. If you like what you hear, then go to Sneaky D's this Sunday; they will be rocking a jam.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Next...
I finished reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. I recommend you do the same.
Long Weekend Update
Hope everyone had a good Easter weekend. It was a long and busy one...
Thursday night - Leah played the flute with Ohbijou, at the Boat. It was a good show.
Friday night - Leah played with Ohbijou again; at a house party / fund-raiser for a dog who needs surgery. I stayed at home. Since we were not able to use St Andrews for a Good Friday service, our church held small Easter services around the city. We hosted one at our house, at 2am. It was simple and candlelit; communion, reading through the passion story, and a hymn. Then we had tea and banana-bread, and went to bed later than I have in a long long long time.
Saturday - we had an Easter barbecue at Don and Kevin's house.
Sunday - we held the second annual Easter Feaster for our church small group. And then church. Afterwards, Leah and I went out for Korean food, and then bought a couple of used CDs. I finally bought Automatic for the People.
Today my throat kinda hurts...
Thursday night - Leah played the flute with Ohbijou, at the Boat. It was a good show.
Friday night - Leah played with Ohbijou again; at a house party / fund-raiser for a dog who needs surgery. I stayed at home. Since we were not able to use St Andrews for a Good Friday service, our church held small Easter services around the city. We hosted one at our house, at 2am. It was simple and candlelit; communion, reading through the passion story, and a hymn. Then we had tea and banana-bread, and went to bed later than I have in a long long long time.
Saturday - we had an Easter barbecue at Don and Kevin's house.
Sunday - we held the second annual Easter Feaster for our church small group. And then church. Afterwards, Leah and I went out for Korean food, and then bought a couple of used CDs. I finally bought Automatic for the People.
Today my throat kinda hurts...
Thursday, April 13, 2006
In less boring news...
Taxing
Sometimes when you are filing taxes, you have questions. This is especially the case when you are filing multiple sets of taxes, for multiple people, for multiple countries.
So sometimes there are numbers that you have to phone. And not just the regular automatic 1-800 tax question numbers. I'm talking about obscure long distance numbers to someone in some cubicle in some grey government building in Pennsylvania...
And apparantly they do not have any sort of answering machine, or any way to put you in line on hold.
Their line is just busy.
All the time.
The good news is that I suspect that I can make up to US$80,000 before I have to pay tax on it in the US... (since I already pay tax on it here...)
[edit] I finally got through (after phoning every ten minutes or so for about 1n hour), and after about 30 minutes on hold (long distance), I was promptly told that they would need to speak to my wife, and not to me. Even though I do all of the taxes, our return is filed jointly, and I am her freaking husband... I don't mind paying taxes, but I wish I didn't have to waste my time and effort wringing answers like blood from a freaking rock... And now I have to get Leah to phone and ask them questions that she doesn't even know anything about... [/edit]
So sometimes there are numbers that you have to phone. And not just the regular automatic 1-800 tax question numbers. I'm talking about obscure long distance numbers to someone in some cubicle in some grey government building in Pennsylvania...
And apparantly they do not have any sort of answering machine, or any way to put you in line on hold.
Their line is just busy.
All the time.
The good news is that I suspect that I can make up to US$80,000 before I have to pay tax on it in the US... (since I already pay tax on it here...)
[edit] I finally got through (after phoning every ten minutes or so for about 1n hour), and after about 30 minutes on hold (long distance), I was promptly told that they would need to speak to my wife, and not to me. Even though I do all of the taxes, our return is filed jointly, and I am her freaking husband... I don't mind paying taxes, but I wish I didn't have to waste my time and effort wringing answers like blood from a freaking rock... And now I have to get Leah to phone and ask them questions that she doesn't even know anything about... [/edit]
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Wednesdaze
My blog is getting more and more boring each day, as I seem to have less and less to say...
Last night we went to Don and Kevin's house for tacos... in celebration of Jenn's birthday. I went to the Beer store across the street from their place (it is still funny that you buy beer here from a place called 'The Beer Store'). I passed an old lady pushing her old-lady-shopping-cart down the sidewalk. She was frail and bent over, and had a huge case of beer in her cart.
I finished reading Cold Sassy Tree yesterday. It is a pretty good book, I think. Especially if you just want to read some stories...
Today I started reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
I wish I had some good new music to listen to.
Last night we went to Don and Kevin's house for tacos... in celebration of Jenn's birthday. I went to the Beer store across the street from their place (it is still funny that you buy beer here from a place called 'The Beer Store'). I passed an old lady pushing her old-lady-shopping-cart down the sidewalk. She was frail and bent over, and had a huge case of beer in her cart.
I finished reading Cold Sassy Tree yesterday. It is a pretty good book, I think. Especially if you just want to read some stories...
Today I started reading The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
I wish I had some good new music to listen to.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Weekend Update
The usual...
Friday - we had someone from church over for dinner... it was really fun.
Saturday - we went to Sears and bought a baby gate. Later that evening we went to a house-warming/birthday party.
Sunday - I slept until 10:40, so I was kinda out of it the whole day. We stopped in at a baby shower that afternoon (hence the baby gate). And then we went to help set up church at around 2.30. I ran the sound, which went OK.
We tried to go to a concert after church (Final Fantasy and some other people), but since we never seem to be organized enough to buy tickets in advance we couldn't get in. So we went to the Moon Bean, and then rented a movie. We watched some of it and then went to sleep.
Today it is sunny and, well, warm, I guess. You wouldn't call it warm unless you live in Canada. But I didn't wear long-johns or a hat or gloves or a scarf... just a sweater and a coat...
Maybe I will do all my taxes tonight. Maybe.
Friday - we had someone from church over for dinner... it was really fun.
Saturday - we went to Sears and bought a baby gate. Later that evening we went to a house-warming/birthday party.
Sunday - I slept until 10:40, so I was kinda out of it the whole day. We stopped in at a baby shower that afternoon (hence the baby gate). And then we went to help set up church at around 2.30. I ran the sound, which went OK.
We tried to go to a concert after church (Final Fantasy and some other people), but since we never seem to be organized enough to buy tickets in advance we couldn't get in. So we went to the Moon Bean, and then rented a movie. We watched some of it and then went to sleep.
Today it is sunny and, well, warm, I guess. You wouldn't call it warm unless you live in Canada. But I didn't wear long-johns or a hat or gloves or a scarf... just a sweater and a coat...
Maybe I will do all my taxes tonight. Maybe.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Indie-world gossip update...
It was a joke... there is no baby, but there is a new Sufjan album on the way (Illinois Part II, kind of...)
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Wednesday
It's 2.30ish. The productive part of my work-day feels like it is over... I have spent the whole day so far working on the same building elevations, and there is only so much I can do before my brain starts going in circles.
So unless I can bash my thoughts out of a rut, and try to approach things from a different angle, I don't know if I will get much further.
Yesterday we carried a futon frame to Rachel's house. We seem to go through occasional bouts of clearing stuff out, getting more organized, and rearranging furniture/pictures/stuff... We also took some of Rachel's old cushions, and ripped out their guts to stuff some cushion covers we got as a wedding present (yes, 2.5+ years ago).
Blah, blah, blah...
Oh yeah... I realized a while ago the interesting fact that I have accumulated a handful of REM cd's (OK, 6 is maybe even more than a handful). I also own a half-read book of Flannery O'Conner short stories, and am currently re-reading Cold Sassy Tree (from the library). I never really left the South, I just kind of didn't go back, so it is funny to catch myself subconsciously collecting odd stuff from Georgia. I seem to have also, for the past 3 years or so, always had a half-full container of corn-meal in the kitchen, even though I pretty much never use the stuff for anything.
Cold Sassy Tree reminds me of an old store near Cohutta, one that is probably shut-down by now, across the street from a straight-up farmer's restaurant that my Dad took me to once. Inside the general store, on the wall, is an old picture of an airplane, standing in front of the same old store. The owner can tell you of how his father (or was it even his grandfather?) bought the plane, and ended up having no real use for it. They eventually took the wings off of it, and would ride it up and down the street.
The end.
So unless I can bash my thoughts out of a rut, and try to approach things from a different angle, I don't know if I will get much further.
Yesterday we carried a futon frame to Rachel's house. We seem to go through occasional bouts of clearing stuff out, getting more organized, and rearranging furniture/pictures/stuff... We also took some of Rachel's old cushions, and ripped out their guts to stuff some cushion covers we got as a wedding present (yes, 2.5+ years ago).
Blah, blah, blah...
Oh yeah... I realized a while ago the interesting fact that I have accumulated a handful of REM cd's (OK, 6 is maybe even more than a handful). I also own a half-read book of Flannery O'Conner short stories, and am currently re-reading Cold Sassy Tree (from the library). I never really left the South, I just kind of didn't go back, so it is funny to catch myself subconsciously collecting odd stuff from Georgia. I seem to have also, for the past 3 years or so, always had a half-full container of corn-meal in the kitchen, even though I pretty much never use the stuff for anything.
Cold Sassy Tree reminds me of an old store near Cohutta, one that is probably shut-down by now, across the street from a straight-up farmer's restaurant that my Dad took me to once. Inside the general store, on the wall, is an old picture of an airplane, standing in front of the same old store. The owner can tell you of how his father (or was it even his grandfather?) bought the plane, and ended up having no real use for it. They eventually took the wings off of it, and would ride it up and down the street.
The end.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Weekend+ Update
Friday - Rented I Heart Huckabees. A darn funny movie (despite the odd tasteless moment here and there).
Saturday - Leah went to record all day. I went to Sneaky D's with the White Stripes (Dr & Ac). None of us could finish our freakishly large Mexican inspired breakfasts. I had to be at a meeting at 4, so I didn't really have time to go home. Instead, I looked for sneakers along Queen street. Once I discovered that the meeting was cancelled, I went to Home Depot instead.
Sunday - Church.
Monday - Work. The Gem.
Saturday - Leah went to record all day. I went to Sneaky D's with the White Stripes (Dr & Ac). None of us could finish our freakishly large Mexican inspired breakfasts. I had to be at a meeting at 4, so I didn't really have time to go home. Instead, I looked for sneakers along Queen street. Once I discovered that the meeting was cancelled, I went to Home Depot instead.
Sunday - Church.
Monday - Work. The Gem.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Throwies
My weekend update will come later... but in the mean time, I found a new reason to visit Active Surplus.
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