31 December 2007 Monday

Hi 2008

Playlist 12/24 - 12/31/2007

Rogue Wave – Are You On My Side

18 December 2007 Tuesday

Playlist 12/17 - 12/18/2007

Regina Spektor – Hotel Song
Republica – Ready To Go
Relient K – Be My Escape
Josh Ritter – Empty Hearts

Don’t let me into this year with an empty heart…

14 December 2007 Friday

Xmas Playlist 12/14 and 12/18/2007

MC Lars – Gary (Okay, this is just a truly great Christmas song.)
Vienna Teng – The Atheist Christmas Carol (simply a beautiful, beautiful Christmas song)

13 December 2007 Thursday

Playlist 12/12/2007

Matt Nathanson – Pretty the World
Taylor Hicks – Runaround
Josh Ritter – Snow is Gone

11 December 2007 Tuesday

Xmas Playlist 12/11/2007

08 December 2007 Saturday

"real-life" widgets

spent a little bit of time yesterday making widgets for my new calendar. I never thought of them as widgets before.. just little, practical customizations.. But I realize for the first time that they are the equivalent of expansion packs and plugins.. Two paper strips that form a pocket in the front, two unruled index cards with the last three weeks of December 2007 on them, and carrying over the insert with the cutout bookmark flap, on which I attach post-it notes (I use super sticky only. the regular kind is crap) with to-do lists and other notes that will not stay attached to one particular day or week. It’s pretty much all set up now. I probably won’t completely move over (data transfer) from the 2007 vert to the 2008 bleu til Monday or so.. Still have to write over birthdays and other infos.

while we’re at it, what’s the word for non-electronic / non-digital ..? It’s not analog… not necessarily mechanical… going with “real-life” for now…

07 December 2007 Friday

My book

UPDATE [from Give me my @&$* book!]:

THEY HAVE MY BOOK.

Borders just won a bunch of points from me (I’m typically a Barnes&Noble/Amazon kid)…

On some sane advice [via], I sent an email to Paperblanks. I’ve not yet heard back, but I ran another sweep of stores.

And Borders’ website said I could special order it to one of the stores. So I signed up for that. A little while later, an email appeared saying the expected, “we don’t have it, but you can check with your store anyway in case they do. here’s their number.” Hopeful but expecting the usual lack of success, I called and spoke to a very nice guy who said he thought they had it. I warned him (nicely) that this is the blue, mini, horizontal book with the magnetic clasp. Not green, not vertical, not slim. He said yes, he’d look for it. I was on hold a while. He came back and said he’d call me back after spending more time looking for it. Nice guy. So just now I get a call. “we have it.” he says. “…… really? the horizontal? blue? mini? magnetic? ..??” “yes, it’s a bit less than 4 × 6 inches…” “that’s it! have you any idea …!? May I please put that on reserve?! Thank you so much!” YAY

I’m going to pick it up after work today. Maybe I shouldn’t be so happy about something so small/superficial. But it’s an object that will spend tons of time with me all of next year, most every day, and I’ll be jotting events and information and thoughts and ideas and memories that I can keep forever.. and this is a little victory and I’m happy and that’s the way that is.

05 December 2007 Wednesday

Automagically is such a good word

Automagically is such a good word.
Automagicably is even better.
:)

Playlist 12/05/2007

Ryan Adams – Desire
The Postal Service – Clark Gable