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From Pat's Father
"We are not having a conventional funeral, but a celebration of his life and would welcome all of Pat's friends to join us on Saturday the 17th at the Monte Sano park picnic area here in Huntsville, Alabama beginning at 4:00 pm. If you need directions, please call 256-881-7028. And please share this info with all you think would like to share this day with us." |
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From Pat's Father
"We are not having a conventional funeral, but a celebration of his life and would welcome all of Pat's friends to join us on Saturday the 17th at the Monte Sano park picnic area here in Huntsville, Alabama beginning at 4:00 pm. If you need directions, please call 256-881-7028. And please share this info with all you think would like to share this day with us." |
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slumlord
Well we finally caved and got some renters. It stems the financial hemorrhaging, but doesn't stop the bleeding entirely. |
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Progressions
Diet: I cheated on Hacker's several times in the last week: Mother's Day dinner with my mom, KGB movie night snacking Friday, and Greek Food Festival. Despite this I still am about 10 pounds down from when I started. I let myself "live a little" but stayed sane. Good. Work: Not much to say, but it proceeds well enough. Won't bore you with details. Love: Hmm. Have had a couple instances of something actually resembling a date, and enjoyed it. I remain non-committal (in several senses) but things are pleasant enough. Class: E&M2 final was this morning. Urk. Well, I needed to ace it if I wanted an A in the course, and I think I fell well short of that, but I don't think I bombed it badly enough to drop to a C. I should solidly have a B. Will know for sure in the next week. In any case, it's done. :) Spirituality: Good. Will post about books later on. Also, had a long conversation with my mom yesterday which included such phrases as "apostolic succession", and "I'm a bishop", and "on Saturdays I hold up bread and wine and say 'this is my body' and 'this is my blood'", and she was extremely positive and supportive about the whole thing, including the details of what happened in Atlanta last December with She admitted she finds it hard to take "my son is a bishop" seriously, but as a Presbyterian, the notion of a bishop is somewhat of a silly title thing to her anyhow. On the important points - what does my Temple "teach", how do I feel when I'm leading services and discussing spirituality with the others - 100% supportive and happy for me. Overall: Totally can't complain.
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"Listening to Garrison Keillor try to sing doo-wop is like watching a dog try to open a gate with it
“Listening to Garrison Keillor try to sing doo-wop is like watching a dog try to open a gate with its paws.” |
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All Suited Up!
~ The Spumantes have a small gig at a fund raising event on Saturday. It'll be our first public performance. And then we're doing a pivate party at the end of the month. I'm totally stoked! Tim, my new friend and utterly awesome jazz trumpeter, returned to rehearse with us on Friday night. It was his first rehearsal with the full ensemble, and he finally got to experience the over-the-top fun that The Spumantes are all about. Linda and Cat (the dancers) showed up in costume, and Renee was in full voice. It was a swingin' good time, and Tim left talking about bringing his sax-playing and trombone-playing friends into the mix. I was so encouraged by his commitment that I finally bought my tuxedo. We have this cool boutique in downtown Sac called Peekaboo Previews, which sells both new and used costume and formal wear. I mixed and matched an entire tuxedo (pants, shirt, jacket, shoes, cummerbund, and suspenders) for only $98! That's less than the cost of a rental! And now that I'm all metrosexual, you can trust me; it looks brand new and perfectly matched in both color and fabric. Not only that, every piece is a perfect fit. I totally lucked out! Now all I have to do is learn how to tie a bowtie. |
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my best friend and housemate Pat McAdams ( ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fingerhead) died this afternoon, right in front of me. |
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Reading the Inlander's summer movie guide... Tropic Thunder (August 15) Oh my god, I LOL'd. Hamlet 2 (August 29)
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I keep hearing something about some Sudanese guy called Bol Kong and his oral commitment to Gonzaga. If it's true, I don't even care what this guy plays like. His fucking name is BOL KONG. You don't want to fuck with a guy called Bol Kong. Is it November, yet? |
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First, when there’s nothing… by MaggieMason
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our love clock
The other day I got one of those val-pak coupon packet things you get in the mail, you know the one that has all those ads for removing toxic mold and gutter cleaning and stuff? Well, inside that packet was an ad for this:  Our Love Clock(tm) You see, it's.. a clock. And I think, what one of you do is, you set the hands according to your mood, or, wait, no, they do? I guess one of you is the long hand and one of you is the short hand, and then -- well, I guess you, you establish this of course, beforehand -- with a system. You've got to iron that out. Someone has got to be the long hand and someone else the short hand. So, okay, let's start over. You establish a system where each person has a hand, and then, each day, each of you in secrecy sets the hands of the clock to communicate to the other person whether or not you're going to have sex, and then each of you, in secrecy, views the clock and sees what the diagnosis is. And this helps you with communication in your relationship. But wait, also, the battery is not included -- but it can use batteries? Which is confusing, because let's say it's ASAP and NOW, well, if you wait five minutes, then it's ASAP and SICK and OH SNAP, you missed your window. Cape Canaveral to White Sands, we missed our window, over. But, forget all of that, because instead, what I am currently believing is that there is no way that this thing can possibly, actually exist, and rather, it's some avant garde artistic statement, or better yet, an experiment to see if anyone would actually buy one. But the experiment doesn't end there! No. The plan is, that if anyone does actually buy one, agents will be dispatched to the delivery address who will then capture the purchasing party and return them to a laboratory for further analysis and dissection. See, that's how I deal with a lot of stuff. I mean, that COULD be true, right? I'm not saying it is, but it's a possibility, however remote. If I can conceive of something like that, someone else could too. It could happen. It could. It might. It could. |
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Fiml-fest Judging, Pt II
Well, this time the news is good. It turns out the documentaries are all pretty f-in' great, and they run the gamut, topic-wise: an in-depth look at a dozen voters in the 2004 election, a squabble over water rights in Washington, a study of 'untouchables' in India, a profile of '50s horror-schlockmiester William Castle, a few others. I mean, the documentaries are several hundred-thousand times better than the narrative things I had to suffer through. The filmmakers all have something to say, yet they let the story unfold at its own pace without editorializing too much. I'm not quite sure what it says when ALL the top entries to a film festival are documentaries, yet almost no one watches documentaries out in the world. I barely care. I'm just glad that I finally got to watch some good, compelling movies. |
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more spiritually
I now have a (fee-paid, as they have no reciprocity with CMU) library card for the Barbour Library at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. It is cited as the largest theological library in the tri-state area and one of the largest in the country.
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oh ho!
This just in on KDKA: a video tape has been found showing that the Patriots stole signals from the Steelers for the AFC Championship game a few years ago. Wow. Patriots fans are advised that I may be irrationally volatile around them. |
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followup
... and now he's playing "New World Man". Dammit. Also: Wednesday's XKCD hits it out of the park for me. I suspect my problems are closely related to this. Square peg, meet round hole. Increasingly I conclude that the standard model doesn't work for me. |
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Rush on KDKA
"Tom Sawyer", "The Spirit of Radio", and "The Big Money" as bumper music on a KDKA show. Why? It's the Dennis Miller show and he's going to see Rush in concert in a day or two. The self-reinvention of Miller as a right-winger is still bizarre to me. But then it shouldn't be: he's a former Pittsburgher who hates Pittsburgh, and that makes him a very low form of life indeed. |
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Cape Canaveral AFS LC 34
This is the remains of LC 34 where the astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in the Apollo 1 capsule fire. That must have been horrific.
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Cape Canaveral AFS LC 14
This is Launch Complex 14 from which John Glenn made the first American orbital flight. It has been stabilized with structural steel (the light green beams). The first view of the pad is from the top of the blockhouse. The second view of the pad shows the blockhouse (the domed structure) in the distance on the right hand side of the photo.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19
Here's a few of the many pics I took while at CCAFS last week.
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IT'S FRIDAY DAMN IT!
