Archive for the tag "friends"

• Marooned – Jenn got mugged!! :-( So glad she’s ok.

• Finally finished “A Fire Upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge. Great book, balls-to-the-wall SF. Hard to get into at first, then hard to put down. #
• I’ve been researching. Mutual followers CAN see my actions section on Twitter after all. Some people have too many Twitter accounts. (grin) #
• Talked on the phone w/ Shelley for like two hours. It’s not her or me, it’s the combination. We can YAK. So good to have a friend like that. #

• Looking for a lifestream plugin for WP that’ll pull my twits etc. into the db, which I’m currently doing by hand. Most of them just cache. #
• @jennatar: That’s one of the ones I’m looking at, yep. :-) Also WP-Autoblog & WP-o-Matic #
• @jennatar: works for me in GReader. #
• @jennatar: the url google decided to use is like so: http://tinyurl.com/2l6wn7 #
• @jennatar: view source? perhaps your browser isn’t set up to directly view rss feeds #
• @jennatar: How come I can see it then? maybe run it through a validator #
• No progress on the lifestreaming thing, but I do have nicer pagination! I’m going with a lateral approach, heheh. #
• Can raccoons open windows? Because one is trying to do that right now, dammit. #
• I have a new friend who’s a fabulously talented mosaic artist. Check it out. http://flickr.com/photos/ca… #

• Adamo – Aerialists Andrew Adams & Erika Gilfether
• Eeeeee!!! Some people w/ Dec. 13th Kindle orders (like me) are seeing their status change today to “shipping soon”. Refreshing like mad… #
• Why do I always have to “killall Dock”? #
• I just got a potato chip in the shape of Illinois. Oops, I ate it… no selling it on eBay! #
• Dad: “Oh, don’t worry about it. They may ship but then again they may run out. I don’t know why you can’t just show the patience I did.” HA! #
• SHIPPING SOON! SHIPPING SOON!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG #

• Daddy’s Kindle shipped! Whereas my Amazon is no longer showing an est. shipping date, just a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” type thing. Meh #
• Back in touch with Mike Lee, an old pal from Austin High punk-rock days. Good guy. I think he turned me on to the Stranglers “Meninblack”. #

• Shelley and I blabbed on the phone today for a while. We’re both on AT&T so yakking is free. :-) Also talked to Daddy. Yay-T&T! #

• @djearlybird: Whatchoo talkin’ bout, did you do one too? OH THAT. That’s nothin’!! Not even a blip on my annoyance radar. Not what I mean. #
• @djearlybird: p.s. I will only slander nameless faceless tech-information bloggers, not friends. Did you use a pie chart? I don’t think so. #
• Trying Amazon Subscribe & Save, a bulk grocery delivery thing. Box of Luna bars every 3 months for $12. http://amazon.com/subscribeandsave #
• R.I.P. Lydia Mendoza – Tejano pioneer
• Kindle Kozy
• Happy New Year y’all!! Turn on the TV, Ch 4 is filming New Years live at Teatro Zinzanni. Wil’s in the band. I’m TiVo’ing. #

• Wil took me to dinner at the TONGA ROOM! And I talked to the whole family, and even heard back from my ol’ pal Shelley. Awesome Christmas. #
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• @hotdogsladies: thanks a LOT for getting “Don’t Pay the Ferryman” stuck in my head. Argh!! Well, it could be worse. Could be “Lady In Red”. #
• I said I wouldn’t, but I fucking poured my heart out to Shelley and now I’m plumb tuckered out! Trying to catch up, there’s too much to say. #

• The bully husband next door is screaming at his whole family, with doors & windows open. WTF, it’s Christmas, can’t he give it rest? Asshole #
• Bought the el cheapo dryer sheets & now the stink is creeping its way all over. Hazmat squad on the way, must protect the Bay Area wildlife. #
• We didn’t want to fight the parking lots so we walked all over town. It was fun! Wil has some secret fancy drinks he wants to make tomorrow. #
• Just wrote to a really good old friend that I haven’t talked to in forever. Hope I have the right addy & she writes back! I miss her a lot. #

• Last night we watched “Me and You and Everyone We Know”. I like it, it was NICE. And ol’ acquaintance John Perkins (Hawkes) is a fine actor. #
• Dangit, no editing on Twitter! I’d like that like with a “d”, like… “liked”. #
• @tigerbeat: Thanks Steve! Will do. #
• MIRANDA JULY » me and you blog
• Daddy tried the Kindle trick and it worked! 12/31-1/14. So I’ll have a week or two to harrass him. If he doesn’t like it I’m in big trouble! #
• Harper’s getting a Kindle too! And you better believe he’s gonna try to hack that fucker. Gonna help me with my wordpress plugin too. @nata2 #
• @zeldman: once I heard “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” performed by volunteer @ assisted-living facility. WAY too sad, an inappropriate venue! #
• Netflix has started sending me things that are waaaay down my queue list, not sending newer stuff. Am I being throttled? Paranoia sets in… #
• Netflix has no instant watching for the Mac. Boooo!! http://tinyurl.com/2ahhae #
• Getting SO confused about the interaction of contacts in Gmail vs. GChat vs. GReader. Harper had no idea what a demanding lil’ PITA I’d be. #
• Answer: If a person uses one addy for GChat and another addy for GReader, you have to separate them into 2 contacts in Gmail. Then it works. #
• Do any more of my friends use Google Reader? Share your links? Holla back. I’m “cowgal” at the g to the m to the a-i-l, what’s that spell? #

• Oooh I got a box from JJ! But I can’t open it, so I gave it to Wil to hide. Otherwise it might start talking to me. #
• Finally made the appointment for my ultrasound. Sounds like a *great* bargain for the uninsured, and LOTS of fun, I can hardly wait! Pfffff. #
• From Kindle Korner: Amazon now allowing MP3 and Unbox downloads to be purchased with gift cards… Kindle books coming soon too, hopefully? #
• “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote: http://tinyurl.com/6qfyu …I had a teacher at Austin High who would read this aloud every year. #
• Twitter will be down all day for maintenance tomorrow, so I won’t be blathering as much about the Kindle, talking boxes and bug-candy. Enjoy #
• Ran into friends, they asked what I’ve been up to, I couldn’t think of anything! Afterwards I thought of LOTS of things. How embarrassing. #

• Posted to Linus Gelber’s Flickr photo “Self-Portrait with Stroke Unit”: “Oh that sucks! Get well soon Linus.” #
• My drummer Jason’s playing at the Warfield tonight w/ Handsome Family opening for Andrew Bird. Maybe I’ll go say hi @ soundcheck? Lazy lazy. #
• No time to see Jason. Wil’s working tonight and I don’t like going to shows by myself. And no friends going, so I’ll just suck my thumb huh. #
• I have the Fruity Pie apple-crunching song stuck in my head. katsu… katsu… katsu-katsu-katsu! #
• Just finished “Spook Country”. NO! I want to keep going. #

• Following Leo‘s lead on Facebook: “Unlike my other networks I only accept friend requests here from actual real-life friends.” (Too bad Leo) #

• Friends are posting pics of the flooding in Chicago — it’s making me very very homesick, but at the same time glad I’m not there right now! #
• Nice when nice people write nice notes asking to use my pics, which are CC-licensed anyhow. News is not nice tho. http://tinyurl.com/3cfcdv #
• I f’in hate showing my receipt at the door, and showing ID when I use my card. Considering polite noncompliance. http://tinyurl.com/2hz3ht #
• Googling “chronic earworm”. Got one that’s bugged me for at least 25 years if not more, a 4- or 8-bar loop I call the Default Song. It sucks #
• Argh!! What would Leo do? #

Cameraphone pics from a lil’ birthday dinner I had the other night at Los Nopales Mexican Restaurant…

Sarah Dandelles and Eric Ziegenhagen

Jason Toth and Sarah Dandelles

Not pictured: The elusive Geoff Buesing…