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For Saint Patrick's day, and to celebrate the book deal becoming official:

Went down Route 9 and found a parking space just off Stuart? street (or the one after it) in the theater district.

A beer at Jacob and something's and then i remembered i had to get my developer talk in for DrupalCon San Francisco and i went back to the car to do that.

Andrew hit some other places, found me back at the car (cell phone had gone silent mode somehow) and after i finally posted, we went off again, to find every place shutting down at half past 11!

May i forever live in shame.

Nutritional yeast and soy milk (mixed), olive oil, oatmeal, brown sugar. Touch of salt and black pepper.

Mom and Grandpa off on a trip. I get Rusty.

Walked the dogs to the post office and the bank--- Middlesex Savings Bank said they are dog friendly and to bring them inside next time! Called friends on the way back, got through to A.

Got some work done in and around that.

Get a client e-mail about a Drupal node clone bug and a basic question about where to look up registration data of people submitting forms on the web site (we'd made them with ubercart free order, so admin/store/ etc.), look for errors about this in the dblog, note again all the hits the site is getting for images that are no longer in that location from stupid people on forums who hotlinked them on the old site, realize this time that stopping these many hits to the Drupal 404 not found page, which even worse is redirected to a node in their setup, is making boost create a cache for each one,

[2010 February 18, Thursday]

Good phone conversations (walk Zelda to the post office and back) and dinner with Vafa and Andrew.

I keep bringing up the disturbing question for me of how people i know, people from good families, can be joining the Facebook group "People on welfare should have mandatory drug tests"

After three decades of welfare retrenchment.
After six decades of a failed alleged war on drugs.
In the middle of a recession that should be reminding most of us that we could become poor quite easily also.

snow stuck to every branch, in the morning sun

Worked at a client's in Cambridge until 11 p.m. Friday, and just barely made the last train out of Boston by running like hell on both sides of the subway.

Felt the need to go or a run for real and tried to map out a 15K, the interesting route came more to 18K, ran about the 15 kilometers from 1:45 to 3pm, then decided to use the parkour course behind the hospital to go to town.

Driving back from Manchester yesterday morning, New England is so beautiful in the winter. In particular the rivers. Those flowing over rocks too quickly to ice over, and those covered with ice. We have it all ;-)

Fantastic dinner Manda made Rich
3 pounds of beef, 1 pound of bacon, some carrots, olives, and half a bottle of wine.

Hair still falling out. I've always had a thing for pulling out shedding fur, so at least i'm enjoying it while it goes.

Natick police officer Vitale, a very sad man.

Maybe he had no choice but to give a citation for my grandfather's expired license, even though he knows the state just stopped sending notices to people so everyone is getting caught with this, and even though he knows my grandfather lives in Cape Cod and that he will have to travel to Framingham to deal with. Without a license, yeah.

I have tons to do. How did i spend three and a half hours this morning, from 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., reading the last year and a quarter of Candorville?

I've been rocking the work the past week or so. Maybe i should have really fully taken Saturday off like i planned. Because productivity this Sunday wasn't supposed to be an option.

Sledding this morning was good though!

Also read an essay on the women's liberation movement by Jo Freeman,
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html

(she taught preschool and always got a bunch of trees for a forest unit in January)

Went sledding for the second time in the not-yet-two-day-old new year!

Darn it, i just realized my status was supposed to be "New Years' Eve plans"! I have plans for the new year:

1. Stabilize Agaric / Drupal work
2. Launch early adopter aspects of Visions Unite / PWGD
3. Get a full-time girlfriend
4. Continue to have irresponsible fun (which may conflict with 1 & 2, i hope not 3)
5. Actually make plans to accomplish these things (this is farther than I've ever gotten before!)

hot breakfast also good because the 54° Fahrenheit indoor temperature was beginning to get even to me.

Won't turn it up because I feel really bad about forgetting yesterday to turn off the radiator I put in the guestroom for a couchsurfer last night, before Veronica and i went to a client site for most of the day.

Aside from remembering to check in the morning (before Veronica completely unrelated brought up homeowner's insurance and the house burning down over lunch) --

May have thrown my back out :-)

Not letting Zelda on the couch. I feel cruel. Somehow she's decided suddenly she has the right.

Site that never ends (will be discussing phase 2 tomorrow even if phase 1 still isn't done) is killing workload-wise but it's sort of fun.

Need to record a lot of things i haven't written down about this year. It's been great.