Pro: No surprises camouflaged in the pattern of the oriental rug.
Con: Interrupting your workday at the sound of cat puke.
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I haven’t done much of a what-the-heckamagooza I’m doing blog post lately, so here it is.
I ended 2008 not having met my absurdly lofty business goals for the year, on the other hand, I made about the same as in 2007 while spending more time on personal projects. I learned to build a website in [...]

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God is in the details. The devil’s in the details. Must be uncomfortable for them, sworn enemies, having to hang out together in the details like that all the time. Maybe all the nit-picking over the details keeps them occupied.
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Take cough suppressant/antihistamine; makes cough worse.
Drink warm milk; now I need to brush my teeth again.
Read a few pages of No Logo by Naomi Klein; merely makes me bored, not tired.
Clean off desk; dust makes me cough more.
Read various news reports about content management and social media; see #3.
Write a stupid blog post; still not [...]

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We’re down to one pfefferneuse and a handful of springerle in the cookie tin, and the last of the foil-wrapped chocolates have been dumped into the candy dish. The tree’s gotta come down this weekend, along with the Russian dolls (the next-to-smallest having disappeared in a time lost to memory), the Christmas stockings (the “Joy” [...]

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Laugh more, worry less. Spend less time being entertained and more time being creative. Drink less, exercise more. Eat more fruit and fewer french fries. Take more bubble baths, make fewer to-do lists. Go to the beach more and hate this place less. Cook adventurous meals more and go to the same old restaurants less. [...]

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…and Barry is in his room editing audio, while I’m in my room editing video.
What a coupla media geeks.
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There’s a bug in my monitor. Not ON my monitor, IN my monitor. Where I can’t swat it. It’s crawling all over my open windows and leaving bug cooties. When it dies, I hope it has the decency to do so in the corner of the screen.
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Mr. D. and I took a tour of the new studios at Golden Belt last night. Some of the work was excellent, but overall, it was not the highest caliber of art I’ve ever seen. But one of the things I like about Durham is that it’s not an art-snobby place. If you are working [...]

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There was a crash of breaking glass from the living room. My first thought was: Oh, no! Not the blue vase. I like the blue vase. Pretty blue vase.
No, Barry was on the other side of the room, and one of the table lamps was on the floor. My thought was: Oh, well. We need [...]

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