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If the numbers are to be believed, that was my 600th blog entry.
And whoa hey, I just found a huge jar of manzanilla-stuffed olives tucked in the back of my uncle’s fridge. There must be more than a gallon of them. I don’t know how long they’ve been there, but they sure taste good. Hooray for olives!
I don’t have a car, and even if I did, I would be hard-pressed to drive it, since I haven’t gotten behind the wheel for more than five years. It’s therefore imperative that I get acquainted with the local public transport. That’s why today was a bit of an adventure for me: my first time to take the S-bus all the way down 16th Street, clear out into the suburbs: Silver Spring, MD. I needed to raid the nearest Ross for clothes.
The fun part was that, with my AIM-enabled phone, I was able to chat with Jim, even while riding the bus. Kewl.
And now, with dinner finished and a light rain pattering outside, I can curl up on the couch with some warm milk to read Dickens’ Bleak House, while Bach’s Orchestral Suites play in the background. Aaaahh.
WeatherPixie brings you the weather from DC, and from other parts of the world, with a preset StorTrooper added for extra character. Cute and fun meme, but I think it might need a little more work. And the graphic is four pixels too wide for my thinnest blog column, so I can’t use it in my random layouts. Also check out the plain-text forecast.
(Link via Lia, who will be going to NYU this Fall.)
If you are a naughty prisoner in Maryland Correctional, they feed you the Disciplinary Loaf. Be afraid.
Sort of a carrot-and stick approach to corrections, then. Except that the carrots in this case are finely grated and mixed with wheat bread, fake cheese, spinach, beans, raisins and other ingredients to create what Simon concludes “smells a little bit like the food they serve in the elephant cage at the National Zoo.”
Oh, and I got the menu fixed — updated and backed up, too.
Hey East Coasters, it sure was warm today, wasn’t it? Two days ago we had a freeze warning at dawn, but this afternoon was above 70, and I could walk around in just a t-shirt.
I got a Voicestream Prepaid 3390. Yes, yes, I’m well aware that a post-paid plan is far more cost-effective, but at this stage of transition I’m still not ready to deal with a regular monthly billing. Also, aside from text messaging, this phone is intended more for receiving calls rather than making them; I don’t plan to use very many minutes at all — only the minimum required to keep the prepaid line open, which will cost me far less than even the cheapest post-paid plan. For now, prepaid it is. But in the near future, I will be getting an income, and I will no doubt need the additional minutes and nationwide roaming of a post-paid subscription. That is when I will migrate to Voicestream’s 19.99 plan.
You know what’s really fun? The 3390 comes with AIM. My new AIM screen name is brownpaudotcom, but don’t expect me to be too available at all times; it costs 10 cents per message sent, just like SMS.
I tried using MT to update my sidebar, and it got half-eaten. I should have saved a copy; gimme a few days to dig up an old backup. :P
(And, after seven years of use, my left rollerblade boot, which had already grown old and brittle, cracked wide open, rendering it unusable and unserviceable. I’ll need to buy a new pair. Some other time when I have money.)
Farewell to Levi Celerio and Lucio San Pedro, two great Filipino musicians whose music and leaf-playing will be missed.
Nope, no snow flurries overnight, but I was awakened at about 4am by the setting crescent moon hovering over the Capitol and shining in through my window from a clear night sky. Pretty. And with temperature climbing to the 50’s later today, maybe I’ll go out for a skate after all.
Daylight Saving Time! Have you set your clocks an hour forward yet?
I got to watch an episode of Stargate SG-1 today, and I actually enjoyed it. I even managed to forget McGyver for a few minutes.
Ooohh, temperature dropping to the upper 20’s, with a chance of light snow flurries. I don’t think I’ll be rollerblading tomorrow.