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• The final inspection of the garage is today. Yay! We need to take more pictures.
• The kitchen reeks of garlic and I can’t figure out why. We had Chinese take-out last night, for heaven’s sake. It’s turning my stomach.
• It’s about goddamn time. Congratulations, Papa. I can’t wait to read it.
• A few years ago I planted two allium. The next spring, we got two flowers. The next year, four. This year, there are eight coming up. I suspect they need to be thinned out — moved a little bit, but I’m not sure how or when to do it. Anyone out there know?
• My mother wants to find some hot pink dinnerware. Suggestions?
• About a thousand years ago, I set up a Freelancer’s community on Orkut. Soon thereafter, Orkut combined with gmail and every time I tried to log in, I got caught in some strange unending loop of error messages. I blew it off — I never liked orkut much anyway. The other day I got an e-mail from a woman asking me if I’d clear some of the spam off the community or give someone else the authority to do it. Magically, I was able to sign on. I cleared out some obvious spam, and poked around a little. Orkut is looking like a waste of time of time to me. Should I just offer to transfer the ownership to that woman? Does anyone go to orkut anymore? Anyone want the community or want to be a moderator?
• Casey wrote to me yesterday expressing some frustration about there not being an easy RSS feed somewhere for comics’ pre-order information organized by creator. Good idea, Casey. I have Wednesday’s List on my machine, but I seldom use it (I don’t think it improves on the Midtown site at all), whereas I look at my RSS reader fairly frequently. Anyway, he’s a crazy-talented code mechanic and is entertaining the notion of putting something together at some point if there’s an interest. Is there an interest? Has it been done and he and I have missed it?
• I love Nikol. If I wasn’t nearly 3 weeks behind on work, I’d stop right now and make my own affirmations list. EDITED TO ADD: We’re putting together a crew for prom. Who else is going? OOA? Droob?