Thursday, September 09, 2004

one more thing Pardon my language, but that fucker George W. Bush must go.  The most meaningful thing you can do to enable his removal from the White House is to involve yourself in a voter registration drive.  Take 15 minutes, do a web search, and educate yourself on the number of disenfranchised voters in this country.  Yes, homeless people can vote, illiterate people can vote, even former felons can vote by taking certain logistical steps.  If you live in Austin, Texas Bruce Elphant, the Pct.5 Constable, will deputize you to register voters!   It's fun! 7:08:58 PM

Hello.  I haven't written in months - I've been working a lot is all.  But, my summer doldrums are over, I'm busy, reasonably happy, and reinvigorated by the fall(ish) weather.  I'm planning on taking my sabbatical in early November, and don't plan to return to work until the end of January.  I realized a few days ago that this would be longest period of time I've been free from work/school, etc. commitments since about age 14.  It's time - I normally just sort of cheerfully get out of bed, take a shower, and go about my day, but lately I am tired, bored, and disinterested in "furthering" my "career."  I really just want to goof off!  Soon. I've been taking advantage of the hours I must spend in front of the computer by ripping my CD collection to a 200GB external hard drive.  It's a bit of a slog, but the only way I could see to reasonably manage 1000s of CDs.  I'm looking forward to putting all those damned little jewel cases in a closet in the coming weeks.  Today, I took delivery of a Cd3o, a little server which hangs off my home wireless network, and serves .mp3 to my stereo...pretty cool.  That's all - I've read about a dozen really good books in the past few months, but I've no time to review/discuss/analyze here.  Perhaps I'll do that in the near future (i.e. October).  In the past weeks, I've purchased tickets to upcoming shows by Ornette Coleman, Laurie Anderson, Morrissey, and Siouxsie Sioux, so I'm looking forward to much good live music in the coming months.  I'm planning to do some serious travel during my sabbatical, and one of my goals is to get this site into shape, enabling me to post pictures, journal entries, etc. here as I move about the world.  We'll see... Until next time, readers.  Be well. 7:01:37 PM