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It's the first time in quite a while I've posted twice in one day, even if the first time was public service announcement. I've been trying to clean up a lot of online profiles, do backups and virus checks, and keep all of my shit in order. My computer and online process is a lot like my physical processes, in that I'd rather be free of something than keep clutter around that I don't need, so I sometimes get overzealous. I've been tracking down personal possessions and trying to find places for a lot of them - the rest we're getting rid of - but in the process we discovered that there's a huge number of CD cases without disks and a fair number of CDs without cases anywhere to be found.
So, of course, we search for them. I won't be surprised if a lot of crap gets thrown out, though. Probably just CD case liners, using the cases themselves for burnt CDs when needed until they're all used up.
Katie's doing first-day stuff at the grocery store. The bank job, if offered, won't start until September so it's worthwhile to accept the work at minimum wage for the time being.
I need to get to the library in the days ahead, but I'm taking notes on the counter culture text. It had a series of essays, as I mentioned, on various bits from how technocratic government systems caused chafing with the youth of the day, the use (or, more appropriately, co-opting) of 'Eastern' religion, the use and abuse of psychedelics, and in at least one terribly misguided instance, why science kind of blows. I'm being a bit uncharitable, but just a bit.
They're all nominally useful, and I think I can use most of the information in a tangential way. I'm waiting until my notes are better to say much more, it's just that my thoughts are resting on them. Because I haven't made it out to get the book (haven't found our gift card and haven't made it to the library), I haven't started Gaiman even though I said I was going to. Instead, I've begun Slaughterhouse-Five. I wasn't nuts about the last Vonnegut I read, but I remember I liked Mother Night, so I'm not exactly holding a grudge. I'm not automatically excited about Vonnegut; his sound feels a little forced, but it's a littler different from what I see in a lot of books so I'm somewhat willing to accept that. The book's not long, so it's not like it'll put me out too much.
So, of course, we search for them. I won't be surprised if a lot of crap gets thrown out, though. Probably just CD case liners, using the cases themselves for burnt CDs when needed until they're all used up.
Katie's doing first-day stuff at the grocery store. The bank job, if offered, won't start until September so it's worthwhile to accept the work at minimum wage for the time being.
I need to get to the library in the days ahead, but I'm taking notes on the counter culture text. It had a series of essays, as I mentioned, on various bits from how technocratic government systems caused chafing with the youth of the day, the use (or, more appropriately, co-opting) of 'Eastern' religion, the use and abuse of psychedelics, and in at least one terribly misguided instance, why science kind of blows. I'm being a bit uncharitable, but just a bit.
They're all nominally useful, and I think I can use most of the information in a tangential way. I'm waiting until my notes are better to say much more, it's just that my thoughts are resting on them. Because I haven't made it out to get the book (haven't found our gift card and haven't made it to the library), I haven't started Gaiman even though I said I was going to. Instead, I've begun Slaughterhouse-Five. I wasn't nuts about the last Vonnegut I read, but I remember I liked Mother Night, so I'm not exactly holding a grudge. I'm not automatically excited about Vonnegut; his sound feels a little forced, but it's a littler different from what I see in a lot of books so I'm somewhat willing to accept that. The book's not long, so it's not like it'll put me out too much.
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