Done yesterday (20111216 Fr)

It was a busy morning -- two doctors' appointments, and an 11am presentation (dry run of our group's presentation in late January) that ran through most of lunchtime. Oh, and flu and tetanus/pertussis shots.

I spent most of the afternoon writing my weekly progress report and doing some long-delayed cleanup in my home directory. Things like deleting broken links and config files for programs that haven't been installed since, in some cases, the turn of the century.

I came home to a huge pile of groceries just arrived from Safeway; they required advanced Tetris skills to get into freezers and fridges, and in the end I had to put the milk in the garage (it's cold enough, at least at night) and the pork shoulder into the crock pot (for carnitas).

Several interesting links -- I think my favorite is ysabetwordsmith's poem, "Imperfect Light". And Dreamwidth is allowing open account creation (no invite codes needed) for the rest of the year. Just in time, given the latest Livejournal idiocy.

I have a permanent account on LJ -- I'm not going away. But you may have noticed that a lot of us are crossposting from DW now.

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Songs for Saturday: Cat Faber's "Alice Day" posts

I've been wanting to post this Songs for Saturday for a while, only the last couple got derailed somewhere along the way. Anyway, I'd like to point you at Cat Faber's "Alice Day" posts. The name is explained in a footnote to this post, where Cat says,

I promised my friend Alice a new song every two weeks so she would have new stuff to practice. This is where I'm putting them. I have been doing this for a while, actually but this is the first time I have mentioned the inspiration. So, Happy Alice Day.

Anyway, she's been posting a new song every couple of weeks since some time in March, mostly with mp3's attached. Enjoy! They're all worth a listen, but I think "Pepper-Spray Pike" is one of the better ones. Never anger a bard..."The Atheist's Anthem" is another good one, and captures a lot of what I, too, believe.