redheadedleague

The Mom Unit is out of ICU, sipping broth and calling to ask me which movies to watch. Things are well.

I, on the other hand, am sick as a dirty wet dog. Apparently my immune system is everybody's bitch. Yes, rhinoviruses, I'm looking at you.

I'm back and at work in San Francisco, after my extended trip East. My mother's surgery went well, although I won't really feel secure until she is out of the ICU.

I expect to be madly busy over the next few weeks.

I have no unified theory, I have no coherent theme, this is just an update. Because it's better than doing work while (allegedly) on vacation.

1) Went to an Obama fundraiser/rally last week. It's the first time since I was a kid that I attended a paid political event. Yeah, I like the guy. No, I'm not endorsing him here. It's not about him, really;...
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So, dorky, and yet, so awesome: Darkon, the documentary.

No idea what this is all about? Here, read this.

"Writer's Block? Yeah, I know him, who's lookin' for him?"

I've gotten about a half a page written in the past three hours. So bah. All I really want to do is play video games and eat leftover Zachary's pizza and sleep. Which I will, now.

I heard about National Security Presidential Directive 51 a while back, but since I heard about it from a couple of conspiracy-obsessed whackjobs online, I didn't put a whole lot of stock into their frenzied warnings. Well, here's a point to the whackjobs - turns out that, while not as bad as they say, it's not exactly comforting.

What the hell, if we're gonna...
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Although I don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell that he will run, I really sympathize with the "Draft Al Gore" campaign. Their hero has been vindicated, and that only makes the electoral travesty in 2000 sting all the more. I admit, I've often entertained the thought that the election in Florida may have been one of those "points of convergence" you are...
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There are moments
While walking down Valencia
While leaning against a weary tree
While sitting in a SOMA cafe
I feel fiercely connected
to a stranger
And I imagine I can guess
the skein of their whole life
Based on their choice in beverage.

Then there are times
When you all seem
like nothing more
than clever simulacrums
Evolved heuristic stimulus engines
And then I...
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On a lighter note, Roomba is Friend to All Humans!

My mother is investigating more advanced surgical techniques, hoping for something less extreme than a full-blown Whipple procedure. As it happens, one of the leading centers for these advanced surgeries is in San Francisco, which would make it possible for me to be there the whole time.