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A Perfectly Squiffy Jag

Lost in the Fold

14.07.09 Tuesday
07:40 pm - come over [seattle; mcfnord]
Can you come to my house and help me set up a network that works? I don't really try to understand networks, and I feebly stumble through occasional success. But I would like all the bits to work, like i can remote desktop to that computer over there, maybe later get like a wireless, you could come over again later and set that up. I have a lot of network needs, but few network skills. That's where you come in. WINDOWS ONLY
i guess george you know that stuff

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07:39 pm - Truck [jameth]

Truck, originally uploaded by james94103.

Wtf


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07:36 pm - CAT of the now [jameth]

CAT of the now, originally uploaded by james94103.

I love it
The seat fabric on the buses have cats on them


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07:32 pm - Wine of the now [jameth]

Wine of the now, originally uploaded by james94103.

Is this any good? I am gonna try it.


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07:23 pm - Lee's Discount Liquor [jameth]

Lee's Discount Liquor, originally uploaded by james94103.

It is the Costco of liquor/wine


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07:13 pm - Macallan 12 [jameth]

Macallan 12, originally uploaded by james94103.

They haven't had it for months
They are now fully stocked
Not for long


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07:12 pm - Omg [jameth]

Omg, originally uploaded by james94103.

Ree's Discount Riquor


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06:04 pm - Day 27: Seattle [colvincd]
"in this vast landscape he had loved so much, he was alone." -Albert Camus, The Guest

When I awoke the girl from San Francisco got up shortly after me, and, because she was looking for the free breakfast, informed me that it was actually 7AM, not 6AM. I had forgotten to set my alarm clock to Paris time. I had already packed up almost everything so I dressed and hustled out of there after saying good bye; I still haven't showered, but I did bathe in a CDG men's room (I wasn't the only one).

It was early on a holiday so there weren't many people on the street, and those present were doing things like having a beer with breakfast. The train was mostly loaded with tourists. I made it to the airport and navigated to the ticket counter, checked my large back I carried vital and valuable items in my small pack. This proved to be a good move since they searched me, frisked me, and looked through my bag for everything including explosives. I think that i was picked from the start for the search, as the degree of inspection seems to coincide with the color sticker they put on the passport. I imagine I looked suspicious because I was sweating profusely (if I don't shower that can happen). I still made it though without further incident.

I got a croissant and a Fanta, and had a short conversation with a guy from Philly who was appalled at how little his American dollar bought and was there to catch a flight to Tel-Aviv about the Phillies and Raul Ibanez. I also bought a couple of bottles of duty-free absinthe. I still had plenty of time to board the plane. On board I spent all the time that I wasn't eating or taking pictures of the world outside the window reading, first Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and then, the somewhat more tedious (and longer) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. To call it tedious isn't quite fair, it's very symbolic, but I didn't have much patience for symbolism at 30,000 feet. I did finish it just before we landed.

The flight was about 30 minutes late coming in. The only significant problem with getting through US security this time was the fact that it took what seemed like forever. I said, at first to myself that my apartment was on the mural of Seattle in the international arrivals room, and then cracked witticisms with a security over it. My Mom who had waited two hours for me, took me out to lunch and then we came back to my folks place, where I showed off my souvenirs both mailed and brought with me, and then when my Dad came in from work I caught up with him as well. I only arrived at my apartment around 8:30 PM.

As a appendix to this exercise, there will be a list my favorite moments that didn't make it into the last few weeks. There will also be a list of statistics for you to consider which will give you an idea of what I have to show for this trip, numerically speaking.

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05:52 pm - NIA workouts [seattle; spokenonlyonce]
Hey [info]seattle folks,

I recently discovered NIA and I'm really enjoying it! So far I've only done it with Barb on Cap Hill at the Dance Underground but I'm hoping to try it with other instructors and maybe other locations. So I have two questions for you.

1. For those of you who've done this in the area, what are your favorite NIA locations/instructors and why?

2. Do any of you have one (or more) of these four DVD's that you'd be willing to give/trade/sell/loan me? If I can't get them cheaper than the website has them for ($15 each) then I'd at least like to borrow from someone so I can see if I like them well enough to buy them, and which ones I think I'll actually use.

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05:37 pm - Blood pressure of the now [jameth]

Blood pressure of the now, originally uploaded by james94103.

116/64

Excellent! Yayayayayyyy


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05:33 pm - Colon Blow Tortillas [jameth]

Colon Blow Tortillas, originally uploaded by james94103.

21g fiber. It is like eating a blanket.


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05:33 pm - Yay [jameth]

Yay, originally uploaded by james94103.

Walmart


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05:29 pm - Macaroons [seattle; k2_d2]
In honor of Bastille Day, does anyone know where one might find french macaroons
( picture )
in or around Seattle?

I tried the boulangerie in Wallingford with no such luck.

Merci!

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05:00 pm - Car things [jameth]

Car things, originally uploaded by james94103.

I am doing car things

Tags:

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04:42 pm [suxdonut]
happy birthday [info]christopher575!!!


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03:46 pm - birth and baking [gfrancie]
Another entertaining pre-natal visit. I had a copy of The New Yorker to keep me amused while waiting to be seen. Baby Biscuit spent most of her time kicking up a storm and making her presence known. "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" Well all right then Norma Desmond... where's your monkey?
Baby is still healthy and doing her thing. As am I. Somehow through magical powers I lost two pounds in the past two weeks. I am trying to figure this out. They aren't concerned as I am measuring as I should and so on. I mentioned some symptoms that kind of indicate things are progressing. Pretty much based on my history of having a successful pregnancy they aren't too bothered about that either. I kind of appreciate this as my provider seems to take a rather low-key approach to what I do and how my body responds. "baby has a good strong heartbeat, she is active and you aren't crowning, let's call it good." Fine then. So I continue to hang out.

So I came home, took Senor Onion with me to Trader Joe's and had ourselves a time. We came home, had lunch and THEN? We baked a cake. We are exciting people aren't we. I thought it would be fun to make Fern Cake as it has been awhile. Senor Onion took a nap and I put the frosting on the cake. I spoke with my Mother on the phone and she kept telling me that I ought to relax and take it easy. I told her I spend a fair portion of my day being lazy but frosting a cake is soothing stuff. I don't think she truly believes me. Just like organizing some aspect of the kitchen is relaxing. Only Martha Stewart understands me. (we are both eldest children who like things a certain way and sometimes a little prison time won't stop us from doing what we need to do.)

Our next door neighbor has some roommates. I am not entirely sure if it is one or two... But the one who has a bedroom near our living room was chanting things today. I wasn't quite sure if it was of a religious nature or if they were losing their mind. Something about, "listen to me listen to me listen to me listen to me..." and there was some other stuff later on. Most curious.

Spotted this post on Vintage Seattle. It is a neat menu from an old restaurant. It is worth looking at for the cover. Ovaltine -only 15 cents. What a deal. It is kind of neat to see the old advertisements as well.

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03:53 pm - hey seattle! [faith]
whats happening saturday/sunday?

i will likely be in town for a long day on saturday and sunday morning.

anyone have crash space for me?

<3<3<3

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03:39 pm - MJ angel [carebearc]

MJ angel, originally uploaded by fictionalcara.


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02:53 pm - Adobe doc team launches blog [jacknack]

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/07/adobe_doc_team_launches_blog.html

The Adobe Learning Resources (documentation) team has created Phosphors, a new blog focused on help & tutorial content for Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Bridge. They've just posted some tips on backing up a Lightroom catalog.

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03:06 pm - hi lazywebs! [jameth]
i'm looking for an online fax service. i am going to be sending tons of faxes (probably 100 pages/10 faxes per month) and receiving very little (0-10 pages/5 faxes per month).

efax is expensive
anything cheaper?

or does anyone want to do it for me? like, i will email you PDFs, you print/fax it, and if people fax me shit, you PDF/email it to me. i'd paypal you like $10/mo. for your "convenience fee". these would all be nevada and texas phone numbers.

thanks!!

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02:34 pm - Weather [jameth]

Weather, originally uploaded by james94103.

110 degrees and slight breeze. I love it.

I am wearing jeans and a button down long sleeve shirt


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02:26 pm - best do[ugh]nuts? [seattle; tankagirl]
Which are the best do[ugh]nuts in Seattle?

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04:32 pm - well-begun is half-done [hydrozoa]
wandering through the giglio festival last night, somewhere around havemeyer, braciole in hands, we happened upon a good old-fashioned carnival dunk tank. "soak the bloke." the guy in the tank, though, had like memorized the paperback book of totally inert insults that i ordered from the scholastic book club when i was 10 years old for when the kids teased me on the bus. people would be throwing baseballs at the target and he'd be like "hey, girlie, i like your '36 figure' . . . 12, 12, and 12!" "nice purple shirt . . . baby bop!" "if you're having trouble hitting the target, just hold the ball up to your ear and let the air in your head propel the ball!" they were being heckled by earnest p. worrell. after each snipe, he would recite this amazing canned sorcerer cackle that would fucking slay us. he wore clown sneakers and overalls.

he called some girl "trigger," i forget which part of her person he was referring to, but we laughed to think that the crowd of brooklyn teenagers had no idea who trigger is.

anyway, it was cute until he called some asian kid "mr. miyagi" and the crowd turned on him. salmon jabbed a finger in the air and cried, "SOOOOAK HIMMMMM," in a dramatic sideshow mel voice, and people turned around to see if he was for real. i want to go back and film him tonight, but it's bastille day, and there's another carnival to document.

i liked shuffling through the midway's flashing lights and buzzing buzzers, eavesdropping on the fat middle-aged italian-americans just genuinely being who they are. the way they talked cracked me up. "good to seeya, jo-wanne, hunney. kiss kiss." a carousel had zebras and giraffes and shit and this marvelous music was pouring out of it, exactly like an old-timey cartoon carousel. down on the boardwalk in 1932.

i don't know--you expect jay-z to come out of the goddamn carousel these days.

we went skipping off to gay karaoke with a white paper bag of zeppoles that had about a pound and a half of moist powdered sugar at the bottom. streaks of it down our shirts.




still in the vacation phase with regard to new york. we're finally able to relax and enjoy each other, now that the play has closed. it's still good to have somewhere else to actually live, though. maybe that's why it's been so easy here this time.

just now, we lunched on some pretty authentic tacos, with the radish and avocado and salsa verde, while leafing through a book about the astor dynasty. salmon was saying that he thinks of mexican food as being heavy, cheese and beef and refried beans, and i was like, what do you mean? i think of light eating, fish and cabbage and lime, like baja-style. dur, they don't really have that in new york.

(well, i know they do, of course, but you know. it's not the standard, like on the west coast. i'm basically thinking of taco del mar when i think of mexican food. heartbreakingly.)

then i went to the largely polish supermarket, which i always called the assoshky groshky, and picked up some unsliced bacon and a roast chicken from the poleboys in the polish deli. excited about that chicken, man.



earlier this morning, pre-mexico, we lolled around the floor watching mary poppins while my in-progress grocery list turned into a list of delicious old cockney quotes and sketches of ed wynn. the movie made me wonder if my opinions about having kids ("it's bad.") would have been different if i'd been raised by a governess. and not been 11 when i watched my teenage sister get knocked up and throw her life in the garbage can.

growing up in europe probably would have affected it too. the beemistress just got back from stockholm and was telling me on the train about how she went out drinking with her hotel concierge there, who told her that there's no real stigma attached to being a single mom, since the country helps you out so much. and that it's not uncommon to wait until you have your second or third kid with your partner before getting married.

another note: when i read mary poppins in high school, the creepy ongoing subplot with the wizened old gingerbread bakeress and her two mongoloid daughters had shocked me, where they go christmas shopping with a star, like from the sky, and then break off each other's fingers and eat them? what the fuck. how, um, incongruous to the movie version. when we saw it today, i recognized that bert greets "mrs. corry," who is very short, and her two daughters, who are very tall, in the very beginning sequence, as he's making up little songs about everyone.

an exciting little catch. very slick, disney. i'd have never known.

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01:55 pm - Helen Keller simulator [jameth]
http://www.helenkellersimulator.com/
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01:37 pm - missing amazon [suxdonut]
im missing ruby, wishing i had a RN workspouse or an RN lesbian. but i realized its not b/c she's a lesbian that Ruby made my worklife awesome, although of course that was icing on the cake. its because she's a goddess superhero artist.

she reminded me every day that first and foremost i am a passionate, creative woman. that no matter what might be best for my employer, what was best for the world was to stay true to myself (and ultimately my employer too).

She kept me honest and at the same time kept me from overworking. she requested my company on breaks at regular intervals. she IMed me with any and all relevant online fuss about our employer. she taught me all about the nutriton of the cafeteria and the joys (sic) of quitting smoking and drinking. oh yeah and i know more about conception than most people can fit onto an ovary.

anywho, yeah, i miss my Rubes, and am looking around eagerly for an artist goddess type in my new job, but i suspect that may have been a one-time offer.

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01:29 pm - oddfellows for the win [suxdonut]
last nite jer, craig and i went to oddfellows. the wait was awful, like 30 min, but we were all chatty and didn't care.

we started with the cheese plate, and happened to carry my fave non alky brew (clausthaler). the cheese plate had sheep's cheese (embarking a whole series of jokes), a blue type cheese and a brie type cheese.

i got a french dip which was OFF THE CHAIN. oh lord it was perfection. i took home and married the horseradish sauce. the pulled pork sammich was mighty tasty, the coleslaw perfect, and the bun not as crusty as i thought it would be from its looks. it looked crusty but acted chewy, kind of like your...oh nevermind.

anywho, 3 thumbs up. back to molly moon's for a scoop of the scout mint on the way home, i have got to try that custard place on 19th, ive heard its better.

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01:28 pm - Seattle Japanese Language School [seattle; ladibug21]
Have any of you taken classes at The Seattle Japanese Language School? Did you get much out of it? Did you like the instructors? There are no yelp reviews (or anything on Google) that I can find.

Thanks

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11:04 am - knitwear specialists wanted [seattle; aerospacegirl]
looking for someone able to knit two irish style sweater for me and my bf (for a verrry special event)- i already see how they should be but don't have enough experience. hoping to get them by december.thanks!

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09:07 am - every man every woman every child he's a mighty [suxdonut]

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08:44 am - where did i go [suxdonut]
i expect to gain some weight back on this job, i always lose a bunch unemployed. but

DAMN

im invisible! i tried on all my old work clothes and they're downright indecent. im in DIRE need of a new unbra, this one has gone the distance but its practically fallin off me now. i just stood in the mirror in some fancy workclothes i dug out of the verymost back of the closet and im like WAT

so you literally burn fat, turn it into muscle and poop? i want to know more. its just so weird.

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