Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to robinpage!!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20111012 We)

A good day. No walk, but I at least got out -- I went to Guitar Center looking for inexpensive USB microphones to use for VoIP conferencing. Settled on a pair of CAD U37s -- $70 each (under $50 online, but I didn't know that at the time) and worked fine when I tried one in the conference room.

I also picked up a coat hook and pipe clamp at OSH and rigged a purse holder for Colleen's scooter. It works just as well as I'd hoped: loop the strap over the handlebars and down, catching it on the hook. Easy.

I skipped my "avoiding" group, but had a great IM conversation with pocketnaomi that was dead on topic. Basically, she thinks that I associate the "reality" -- you know, that big room with the blue ceiling, and by extension any other place outside the computer -- only with unpleasant chores like laundry, dishes, and garbage. I should go out and do fun things, as a way of breaking that unconscious association.

It sounds like a good idea.

The main reason for skipping Avoid Avoiding was that I was expecting deborah_c to come down from Sunnyvale, where she is traveling on business this week. And indeed she did; violin in hand -- we had a lovely evening of conversation and a little music. I called Naomi for the latter, and also because I knew that she and Deborah were friends and hadn't talked in a long time. So that was very good.

I also made our plane reservations for Orycon.

Links for the day include CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... and 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America, via ysabetwordsmith. A couple more in the notes.

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Party at the Starport - Saturday, Oct. 29

I have been reminded that I haven't been posting party announcements early enough. The next party at Grand Central Starport will be on Saturday, October 29^th. Directions, etc., at the link as usual.

Thankful Thursday

So, today I'm thankful for...

• A collection of body parts that, while clearly old, shabby, and poorly maintained, are nevertheless reasonably functional.
• My wise, wonderful sister of choice.
• A distant daughter who loves us and misses us enough to want to come home for Christmas.
• Lids that fit our frying pans well enough to put out a grease fire.
• Colleen, and her continuing improvement.
• CAD audio, and a chance to use some of my audio skills at work.
• AAA