2005-04-30 
 

bye bye blue

For those of you who new him, Blue Sr. is no longer with us. Many years of love and attention caused him to crack at a critical juncture leaving him beyond repair.

But wait! We have the tools, we have the technology. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster!

Okay, I've taken some liberty with the original text there, but the point remains.

Blue is dead. Long live Blue!

Labels: dose of mikey

* posted by me at 8:13 PM

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2005-04-28 
 

too much to say

So many ideas were bouncing around inside my head this week, but now that I finally sit down to blog something my mind is blank. So instead, I give you random linkage that I've found interesting over the past few days.

Link to visit if you like secrets.

Link to visit if you like sunny days sweeping the clouds away.

Link to visit if you like monkeys wearing hats.

Labels: linkage

* posted by me at 11:56 PM

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2005-04-26 
 

diversion

Work.

Sleep.

Work.

Sleep.

Work.

Check out funny website that Chris found.

Darth Vadar's Blog

Laugh.

Sleep.

Labels: linkage

* posted by me at 1:47 AM

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2005-04-23 
 

camera vanisho

So I'm back! Did an amazing ammount of shopping in upstate New York. (Well, maybe it wasn't that amazing given that we spent our days inside various shopping centers.) Many new shirts and sweaters were found for both G and myself, but no jeans or khakis because that would be WRONG.

Anyway, filled up the suitcase so tight it was a wonder it all fit in...until I wanted to show G my pictures and movies from Niagara Falls and realized that the camera was still sitting under the passenger seat of the rental car.

Hopefully the people at Hertz are honest and caring folk who'll place my missing item in their lost and found to be safely returned next week. Otherwise I've lost about 350 dollars worth of camera, memory cards and rechargable digital batteries.

Truth is that the monetary loss doesn't bug me as much as the loss of the pictures and movies. Fleeting bits and bytes to help me remember a fun day I once had.

Labels: dose of mikey, shout out

* posted by me at 6:18 PM

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2005-04-20 
 

until niagara falls

Ugh. Wrote a great post about visiting Niagara Falls today with coworker C. We were viciously lost for parts of it, but laughed much. Revelation of day for us was that the Amazing Race might eliminate us after only an episode or two, but that we'd make great TV until it did (No bickering, just laughter.) But that's gone now.

Three paragraphs just disappeared into the ether. Somebody could make a nice bundle of cash if they figured out how to fix that since it happens to me at least once a month. So frustrating! When I hit save as draft, I want a draft saved, not erased for all eternity.

Enough moaning, I'm going to bed now remembering the giggles of the day.

Labels: blogging, dose of mikey, sharketing

* posted by me at 11:36 PM

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2005-04-19 
 

daily bread

Hey God?

Yes, Michael?

Can I offer up a prayer in retrospect?

Sure.

Let the new pope be good for the gays.

Hmmmm. We'll see.

OK, I know that's not really an answer, but thanks for listening.

You're welcome.

Labels: dose of mikey, spirit

* posted by me at 8:37 PM

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2005-04-17 
 

traveling man

Spent four hours sitting next to a six foot seven man in coach today. I knew that the armrest was out of the question and even forgave him for the fact that his knees kept poking over into my seat space and banging into my tray table. After all, it's not his fault that most airplanes are designed for people shorter than even my average self.

I do wish he'd chosen to shower sometime in the past few days though.

Labels: dose of mikey

* posted by me at 10:19 PM

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rainbow run

It is amazingly hard to find Double Rainbow ice cream in San Francisco after 9:30 P.M. G and I were being slugs on the sofa earlier this evening when he mentioned that we'd lost another cereal bowl due to overuse. Suddenly we were awake. A mission!

Double Rainbow plastic quart containers make excellent cereal bowls. The fact that they're covered with black and white cow spots makes the cereal taste even better.

After being disappointed by closed doors in several neighborhoods, we headed across Van Ness and chanced upon the Casablanca Cafe on Polk Street where we finally found our fix. Sadly, there were no plastic quart containers there, but the service was quick and friendly and the Hazelnut Truffle Latte was delicious.

There were hookahs on many of the tables which can apparently be used with a variety of different flavored smokables. Just occurred to me that I'd be more surprised to find those flavors were tobacco based rather than cannabis inspired. Ah, San Francisco.

We must venture from the sofa more often.

Labels: dose of mikey, g, san francisco

* posted by me at 2:49 AM

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2005-04-14 
 

smoke in the city

Climbing up through the steel and concrete of downtown San Francisco this morning, I caught the lingering soaked-in scent of campfire smoke. After three showers and several changes of clothes it seemed a bit odd that I’d still be carrying it around, so maybe nature’s trying to tell me something.

I’d been reading Tom Robbins’ Villa Incognito during my commute and my mind’s been full of animism and the idea that every living thing has spirit. Not a new concept for me, but something that’s been buried under too many years of dance halls and drugs.

Okay, maybe that last part’s a little hyperbolic and/or misleading, and I do beg your pardon. It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to tap anything in to the computer and the words are welling up; flooding to the surface of my skin and jumping off on whatever keys they see fit. I have lost all control.

This entry has been brought to you by the letter M who is tired of being a corporate cog. BEHIND THE BLOG: He composed it much earlier today in email format. The more legitimate work related email he could've been writing championed ideas that had been reduced, by committee, to a tepid and salt free state. Ain't corporate america grand?

Labels: blogging, dose of mikey, reading, san francisco, sharketing, spirit

* posted by me at 2:16 AM

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2005-04-08 
 

wonder woman

I often joke that I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but the truth is that I'll be happy if I end up half as cool and caring as my parents are today. Got an email from my Mom a few days back about her latest project: Wings of Hope.

I spoke with her today and found out that she plans to eventually expand the site to tell a little bit more about her own story of living with myositis, but she's off to an admirable start and I hope you check it out.

Labels: linkage, shout out

* posted by me at 8:38 PM

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2005-04-06 
 

a peek ahead

Consider this a teaser. A hint of something to come.

Labels: 1000 words, shout out

* posted by me at 1:49 AM

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2005-04-04 
 

technical difficulites

Well, sometime over the weekend my computer decided to stop playing nicely with the internet. In fact, it just stopped playing nicely altogether. Point is that I've been unable to blog from it. I can check email from the work computer or G's, but my computer time's going to be curtailed until we figure out the problem. I also picked up a cough over the weekend, so right now I have no desire to sort through my systems. TIVO it is! Gotta love modern technology...when one system crashes, there's always another one waiting in the wings to help you forget.

Labels: blogging, dose of mikey

* posted by me at 10:53 PM

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2005-04-01 
 

dream of the pulitzer

Been having strange dreams lately.

Early this morning I found myself in some New York highrise where a sensibly shoed woman in a power suit offered me a chance to be a senior manager at her magazine. She led me down to a young ponytailed man's cube with the idea that he would show me the ropes. After listening to him go on at length about his strange filing system, I suddenly realized that he had a working scale model of the space shuttle strapped to his back.

I mentioned it, he said,"Oh Yes!", began a countdown and blasted through quite a few floors before popping through the roof. At this point, the shuttle became unbalanced and started jetting him back towards ground, but he saved himself by detaching at the last minute and grabbing onto a lamppost. After climbing down, he came back up to the cube and told me that my first piece was due in two hours...at 4. The only requirement? The subject must be:

Home

Home is where the heart is. Home sweet home. There's no place like home.

If house is the physical body, then home is the soul.

My sleeping brain found these half formed thoughts to be brilliant, and I awoke feeling sure that I'd end up with a Pulitzer. It washed away in the shower, but I enjoyed the feeling while it lasted.

Labels: dose of mikey

* posted by me at 1:25 AM

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