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Peter, me, and the border guy, who sounded slightly New Yorkish. Timing punchy, businesslike, upbeat:

“Hi.” hands over passports

“Hi. [pause] ‘ninme’, could you take your sunglasses off.”

“Oh sorry.”

pause “How long were you in Canada?”

“Just for a weekend retreat since… Friday evening.”

“Are you bringing anything back with you?”

“Uhh [turns to me] we’re coming back with pretty much […]

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Peter and I are at a retreat in Vancouver, BC, learning each other’s emotional language. Ah, west coast Catholicism.

So here’s an open thread for all of you all to discuss the matters of the day in each other’s emotional languages.

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If this works, when this posts I should be at Uwajimaya. Or the post office. Or returning something at the Gap (why do their seams always unravel so easily?) Hopefully at Uwajimaya because i’m starving.

If it doesn’t work, you’ll either never know or I’ll be sitting here moments from now swearing at the thing. […]

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Well, I was awake enough today to watch a little TV, finish my book, and finally log into the computer. Haven’t done much else though. Yesterday I got home at about 7am, went straight to bed, slept till 1.30pm, slept again from 4.30 to 7.30 which was when I had the fever, ate some soup, […]

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Well, that’s all folks. I’m sick as a dog, covered in paint, exausted, weepy, and dying for a final bubble tea, but my flight out of here is this evening. And, of course, I have had fun, and it’s been lovely being in Maui again, and it’s been doubly lovely being in Maui with a […]

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So yesterday we did so much stuff (we were in Walmart for like 2 hours and I don’t even like Walmart) and brought home so much stuff (we filled two of the blue shopping carts they keep in the garage here) that I was just starting to cook dinner at 8.30 when I sliced a […]

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ninme: Hotness for Word Guys

(Curtsy: RC2, who just emailed me that, right before he emailed me the other thing, hence the “devil” remark in the previous post.)

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I didn’t take this today, but yesterday after all my toils I felt like I needed to take a picture of the beach:

I feel sort of dishonest posting it (”hey, look at the great beach I’ve been sitting on!”) since I haven’t set foot on it since, and had to make a point to go […]

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Since I got here Wednesday evening, does that make it Day 4? I never thought so, but I think for accounting purposes it is… At any rate, I was so wound up last night about all the stuff I had to do today, I could barely sleep all night. So then this morning when I […]

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Err, yes, I’m in Maui. See?

the buttcrack of dawn was right behind me. ah, jetlag.

Sorry, why am I in Maui, you ask? Well, I’m doing a renovation of my grandparents’ old place to turn it into a rental property. Why am I using the first person singular, you ask? Because I’m the one doing it. […]

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It just occurred to me: Leap Years happen every four years. Presidential campaigns happen every four years. Presidential campaigns happy on even years, but the actual date of the presidency (far more important since people will probably talk about Bush 2001 - 2009 for far longer than they will Bush Cheney ‘04) happens on an […]

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See, the thing that pisses me off is why nobody ever seemed to think it was the slightest bit peculiar why my little blog was killing every server it came in contact with. I mean, Little Green Footballs I ain’t.

Anyway, I’m off Movable Type, stupid, retarded, evil Movable Type, and Peter’s like a pig in […]

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Do you like the picture? It’s a July 4th firework from 2003. I said I wanted something that conveyed “anger”.

I’m going to bed. Then Peter’s switching the name servers again. If you see the fireworks, you see the new blog. What server am I on? I’m not even sure. Steadfast, Peter tells me.

I am about […]

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If anyone out there knows why a light-traffic blog running Movable Type 4.1 just like millions of other blogs in the world, kills every server it touches, could you clue us in? I mean, why is ninme the only one that has to switch to a VPS (which is what Peter’s seriously considering) in order […]

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And thanks for trying to fleece us out of $40 a month.

We’re ditching Media Temple (that took a week, if anyone’s counting). I’m posting this, then I’m shutting off comments, then Peter’s transferring the whole thing to the new server, then he’s switching the DNS server. It can take up to 24 hours for the […]

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