And soooooooooo there I was, all ready to be off work this weekend, ready to take a run at living the free life of those who, well, get 48 or so hours off from work, but, lo, what training event through yonder window breaks? 'Tis some random unit in need of education and I am modestly deemed essential for such an endeavor.

For those who...
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The lovely delights of another weekend without a break, definitely working Saturday and Sunday. Probably not a full 8 (9, 10, 11, 12 . . . ) hour day either day, but I'll still have to be there, still have to be awake and on scene by 8 AM tomorrow morning . . .

Not fun at all. But the Modelo Especial tastes pretty good...
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My place is placeless, my trace is traceless . . .

-- Jalal al-Din Rumi

Fall in the South is a terribly brief and fragile thing, but lovely when it works like it is supposed to . . . like it is today. Cold enough this morning to call for a jacket, now warm enough for a t-shirt, crisp cool air fading into a hint of languid heat (which, I do hope) we are mostly done with . . ....
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Lanya's set . . . just absolutely wonderful. Such beautiful eyes. Certainly takes the edge off of being back at work, for the seventh day in a row.

Long. Annoying. Fucking. Day.

Lovely. There is nothing at all like being frustrated, annoyed as shit, and absolutely indispensable to the collective effort. Six and a half day a week work weeks just suck.

An interesting question? When does the need to avoid insulting or offending the beliefs of others cross over from the decent and right thing to do and move deep into the realm of the crass and stupid?

I suspect it is somewhere long before you get to the point where you are banning mother fucking cartoon pigs because some half-witted twit who just happens to...
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Serenity opens today, which looks like it will be the coolest thing coming or going for movies this fall. But . . . the nearest theater showing it this weekend looks to be 65 miles away, so I'm leaning towards seeing it tomorrow, since I don't really feel like driving an hour after getting off work today. Such are the pleasures of living in the...
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Apnea is no longer active on SG? Shera gone as well? I don't even know what to say, except to note that both departures are dreadful, dreadful, dreadful, and that both women were (and remain, I'm certain) lovely, lovely, lovely.

The idea that neither will be contributing more of themselves to SG does take the fun right out of a day.

So, the masses (such as they were) turned out to protest the War . . . and, er, other things tangential to the War that, you know, people should really know about because, er, when you manage to get like fifteen demonstrators together in one place you'd better make sure everyone knows about Mumia and Palestine and the perils of flourinated water.

I'm all for...
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