bean

Yay #6.

-Cowboy Dale

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Update (2/20 2:45am): Nono...I take that back, Yay Radio.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

love bean.

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Update (2/20 8:24am): Nono...I take that back. Yay Excedrin.

Ow.
-bean.

Tonight was a great night. I took the Metro Blue Line (think, "subway, but slower, and above ground") from Long Beach up to LA to meet Shalome after work, and then we went up to Hollywood to get some positively exquisite indian food.

The hour long ride up there gave me a chance to finally crack open the volume of Vladimir Nabokov short stories that...
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Acoustics in Long Beach are weird.

Standing outside, having a smoke in front of our loft, I heard a train horn in the distance. There are no train tracks in that direction for 18 miles. There are also no tall buildings in that direction for about the same distance.

I know the sound was coming from the port a couple miles behind me, on the...
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I just got back from the mind-boggling electronics superstore that is Fry's Electronics.

Shalome and I went there to buy a universal power adapter, and came home with:

• 1 Universal power adapter


• 1 Candy bar


• The Sims: Urbz-Sims in the City (PS2)


• Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2)


• True Crime: Streets of LA (PS2)


• Jam Pack Demo Disc with demos of 13 new/soon-to-be-released games (PS2)...
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Woo! My divorce is finally final! I got the papers today that said everything was done. I'm not so much ecstatic as I am relieved. The absurdity of the kafkaesque bureaucracy they make you navigate to get a mutually agreed-upon, no-possessions, simple-as-possible divorce had been causing me a good bit of stress, and I know it was beginning to freak Shal out a bit too....
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Hopefully, after Monday, I'll be able to clean up the last fuck-ups my former employers made when they helped me set up my company. Either that, or the company will look radically different, very soon. Also, Shal might be getting another job. See her journal for more on that. It'd be great, because I really think she'd be better off there, and it'd be nice...
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I had made a promise to myself that I wouldn't update my journal until I had finished my 2004 retrospective. It's not that it's that long, it's just that I keep not writing it. Sorry.

Anyhow, the weather has forced me to update. Really, it's insane. A meteorologist on a radio program remarked that "the worst weather in the country right now is in Los...
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Merry Christmas.

Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, I hope today has been good for you. It's certainly been a great day for me. Nothing particularly earth-shattering happened today. It was simply a very nice day in general, except for the part where the box that hosts our DNS went down and all of our sites were unreachable for a few hours. But really, it's...
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I like buying gifts. Especially when it doesn't involve malls or large crowds.

Eek.

I have a meeting in a couple hours with a prospective client. We've been doing pretty well for the last several months, getting new work from existing clients, but this is the first totally new potentially big client. It could be a really big, fairly lucrative project too since, when I first spoke with him, he basically looked at our biggest, most successful, most...
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Wow. You all totally need to screw off now.

Okay. Not all of you.

Friday
Reprobate and I went to Das Bunker and saw Babyland. There was much yelling, and much banging on debris.


Saturday
I was skeptical about how apocalyptic Saturday night would actually be when we boarded the shuttle from the parking garage to the location, and of about a dozen people on the shuttle, four of us (Shal and I included) looked like we were...
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