Category Archives: Etc

Threat level: Yellow

I have just deleted a nice long rant about people who don’t write for a living telling people who do write for a living how unqualified they are to be writers. This is usually because the writer and the reader … Continue reading

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The UPS Mysteries

This isn’t supposed to sound like a math problem, but I’m afraid it will. I have two packages coming via UPS Ground at the moment. One is a guitar in a hardshell case, weighing about 20 pounds, originating from San … Continue reading

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No blood for oil? Say, that gives me an idea…

We really love our car. It’s a very sensible, very efficient (life begins at 30 mpg) Geo Prizm, built at the nearby NUMMI plant in Fremont. It’s coming up on 100K in miles and we see no end in sight; … Continue reading

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Megabyte: Deleted

Anybody with aspirations as a voice actor pays attention to other voices. One of my favorite voice actors died recently – Tony Jay, whose generic name probably doesn’t ring any bells with most people. Kids know him as Frollo from … Continue reading

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Boozeless

Had a cool, rare offer to go out drinkin’ with the crew from work tonight and, after planning to go all day, turned it down at the last minute. Got agitated, felt like going home to chill with Kat, and … Continue reading

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Live on WRRC, 1989

Kat has dedicated a good chunk of her free time to digitizing our collection of cassette tapes. We’ve uncovered some old airchecks from Ithaca but I was surprised to find one even earlier than that, predating college. I’d made a … Continue reading

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Suffering for beauty

Kat hates beards. Turns out she hates more than that – she hates my neck hair, too. So every so often, when she bleaches and dyes the back of my hair blue (like this morning), she insists that other hairs … Continue reading

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Karn Evil #9

“Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends…” Maybe nobody noticed that I stopped updating my personal page some time ago. It just got to be a pain in the ass. I realized I should just replace it … Continue reading

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