Posts from the notebooks part 1

NP: Circle Slide by the Choir off of one of my favorite albums EVER
The Choir's Circle Slide
I remember picking up Circle Slide at a Northwestern
Bookstore near my house in Maplewood, MN. They didn't have the
greatest music selection, but it was nearby and thus the easiest place
to convince my parents to take me. I think they even bought the disc
for me. I had probably just purchased my first CD player a few months
prior since I remember lining up my CDs and thinking I was really cool
for having something around 40 discs. Now, Angela and I have over
1200.

Anyway, this is a little piece that I found in one of my notebooks. It
doesn't have any sort of ending, but I thought it was a nice
beginning...

Back packed, key in hand, and heart stilled. Trepidation was bleeding
itself away as the time to the start of the mission clicked down
moment by moment. The days previously had almost seemed to stretch.
Moving along almost languidly, and even yesterday was fairly
leisurely, but today was different. Today it seemed as ifthe clock had
gone haywire and was just freely spinning.

anyway, that's all that I wrote. I'm not sure why, and I'm not even
entirely sure when I wrote it. But it's there FWIW.

More Gmail

I'm still just getting into Gmail, but I'm becoming more impressed by
it. I really dig the conversation threading that it created. Instead
of opening individual e-mails, you open a 'conversation' that shows
all of the e-mails in a thread in one web page so that you don't have
to keep clicking. If you want to reply to something, you click reply
under the e-mail you want to reply to and it automatically opens a
reply area right inside the page so that once again you don't need to
leave the page. Once you're done writing your e-mail, you click send,
and the little input area of the page disappears and your new message
appears at the bottom of the thread. It can also automatically
hide/show quoting so that you don't have to wade through old quotes.

Anyway, I'm pretty impressed, at least much more so than I ever
thought I'd be. I can see Gmail catching on quite a bit once it's
officially released.

Must do timesheet(s) today. Thankfully it should be relatively easy. More later.

Gmail!

I was digging around in my blogspot control panel and noticed that I
was invited to get a Gmail account. So far, it seems pretty cool.
Although I'm only getting started with it. I like the keyboard
commands you can use from the main panel though.

Too Much Stuff...

I swear that the move from Minneapolis to Colorado Springs will never end. So far, we've dragged at least 4 Santa Fe's worth of stuff down to our Apartment, along with an Elantra worth, part of a moving truck worth, and a full size van worth. Our apartment is slowly getting to the point where we won't have any more storage, which means another round of binging and purging. But binging and purging aren't always bad things, at least when they don't involve puking on demand. ;-)

I think Big Fish comes out to the used section at Hollywood today, maybe I'll have to swing by and find out.

New Beastie Boys album?

Verdict? Blah. That's all. Glad I didn't buy it.