Summer nights I was wrung out and exhausted, emotionally, physically, intellectually, from hard day of trying to rent apartments. The good news is I’m shifting my hours, the bad news, is that the economy in Austin is in the proverbial toilet. Try explaining that there are more apartments in Austin than there are tenants. Just … Summer nights
New toys. [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30437.html]Apple’s news is kind of cool, if you ask me. [url=http://www.apple.com/music/]Interesting business model – 99 cents per song, I’m just wondering what the backend of the transaction looks like. The term I’m beginning to really, really loathe: [i]business model[/i]. Ugly expression. Using [url=https://www.paypal.com/refer/pal=kramerw@astrofish.net]PayPal, the subscriptions around [url=http://www.astrofish.net/cgi-bin/ppsignup.pl]here are running right at a tad … New toys
It started Friday night, and if I was really as good as I thought I was, I should’ve been able to discern the symbolism. It was at the happy hour gathering for the journal writers and assorted folks. Or sordid folks and their ilk, depending on how one addressed the motley crew. There was one … My favorite Sagittarius
Most of my friends were all headed over to [url=http://www.sexton.com/eeyores/]Eeyore’s Birthday. But what else was there to do? In my hood, there was the “jumping off the ramp into the lake” contest and event. Then there was, right next to it, an Austin Parks and Recreation event. Plus there were some Dragon Boat races of … Media conflict
From the unofficial [url=http://www.astrofish.net/XFree/jokelist.html]joke list. It was sent in by a Sensitive, New Age Guy. Friday Happy Hour & Sex [url=http://alfred-e.diary-x.com/]Charlie and me eased out of the door at the 1920s club, just as a bevy of [url=http://gnstreetgirl.diaryland.com/]beautiful and [url=http://saucyvox.com/blog/blogger.html]desirable [url=http://waterlilies.org/weblog/]ladies were starting to get [url=http://www.nibelung.org/eyes/]cozy. On the couch. Together. Or maybe just get crazy. … From the joke list:
[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441000681/fishinguideto-20]Neuromancer by William Gibson. Started the “cypberpunk” [i]revolution[/i], or, at least the novel is credited with starting it. I quit, almost a week ago, trying to do anything truly productive because of the slow movement of [url=http://www.astrofish.net/monthly.html]Mercury. [b]And it’s not even officially retorgrade[/b], well, not yet. One of the purposes of having a wall of … Neuromancer by William Gibson
Being a dutiful son, not quite dutiful enough to scoot up to Dallas for Easter, and forgo the dubious pleasure of [i]volunteering[/i] at the weekend event [conscription or press-ganged might be a better term], I did call. Long chat with Ma Wetzel’s Scorpio self, and mulled over many matters of some importance. Health, welfare and … The beginning of this cycle’s Mercury Tales
Letters to politicians That’s what I started with, but my caustic, satirical streak took over, and I’m not sure I really want to fire off one of the letters. What’s more amusing – to me – is that one of the city council personages lives in a neighborhood with those very same expensive “traffic calming” … Letters to politicians
Two things. Two, rather unrelated events occurred that I figured were worth writing about. One was from an afternoon observation point, and second was the evening “entertainment.” Late Tuesday afternoon, I was high atop the third floor of one of the apartments, and I was keeping an eye on a resident. Young girl, student, does … Two things
