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Diversions from Emptiness
J:
Short form today. We're finding diversions from our empty house lately.
Here are some examples:
- Thursday - Gina, John Marketon and I
had a retiree lunch at Franklin's brew pub for my boss, who in the
interest of privacy probably doesn't want his name mentioned here. I
bought him a beer. I think he's already enjoying his private leisure
life.
- Friday - First Friday, where we
found diversion by filling our house with friends. I got soaked in the
rain at the campfire.
- Saturday - Rich gave us tickets to a
production of Defending the Caveman,
and we met and talked with Kevin Burke after the show. Then we went to
a nearby Irish pub called Four Courts, and had dinner with friends Jeff & Arthi and Cindy &
Mark. After that Gina and I bounced over to Jake's place to attend
Cuyugacon. I played WDTC,
then some German "oops game" that was kind of like pick-up-sticks.
- Sunday - Went with Nan, Shaun &
Mi Ae to the Toulouse
Lautrec exhibit at the National
Gallery in DC, then we walked over to the Botanical Garden where Shaun works and
where there was a celebration of the Wikes expedition. Tim Whittemore
was there playing his didgeridoos, and I played a little too, and he
gave me another small but very informative lesson where I learned a new
group of sounds to practice. Then I perused some amazing plants with
the rest of the gang. I made Gina smell a huge corpse flower, after
Shaun got me to smell it. Yup, smells like old roadkill. Then we all
went to Chinatown
Express for hand-pulled nooooooodles.
- Monday - We bought a new car! A Scion
xA, "Indigo ink blue." Gathering inspiration from the color and the
tag, which begins with "8AM D...", I named the car Lucifer. Now that we
have enough cars, I've started lusting after thinking
about motorcycles. Mostly I've been ogling at my favorites— right now
I'm drooling over a Monster
Duck and a Naked
Guzzi. This may take a while to save up enough money...
- Tuesday - At Gina's clay class I
threw two "objects". We'll call them a "vase" and a "mug". Gina's a
great teacher! She manages to balance individual instruction with group
instruction.
- Wednesday - Birthday dinner for
Dorian at Franklin's, then more fun over at Diana's place, where I'm
headed when I finish this. Her house is close enough to easily walk to.
Gina already walked there. The night is warm and breezy.
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THE HEAP
where we wade the web
hydrogen reading list
suppressing
free speech
non-leaching
bottle
cafe delocator
abduction/sleep
paralysis
i park like an
idiot
burton
anchors fox news
cropless
crop circles
the
bitter pill
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