March 2012
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Work Lunch
The best part of having an office with a door and blinds and having lunch in your office is that when you’ve finished your chili, you can lick your plate.
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Garden
Home Depot has veggie and herb plants on sale for half-price, so we got a bunch yesterday, even though I’m not sure where in the garden some of them are going to fit! Got:
3 strawberry plants
1 basil (will probably need more)
1 purple basil
12 red cabbage
2 dill
2 oregano
8 Brussels sprouts
8 broccoli
2 cilantro
8 Chinese cabbage
Will try to get them in the ground this weekend;...
April Fool's Day Office Prank
I heard about a good April Fool’s Day prank, where someone printed up a sign for the office copier explaining that the voice-control upgrade had been added to the machine, and that you could now just speak to the copier telling it how many copies you wanted. I will have to do this next year.
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AA Swing →
“AA Swing”, by Sugarfist. Kinda hard-rockin’, metal/rockabilly.
Awkward
I hate it when you go to shake someone’s hand, but you (or they) misjudge the grab and they end up shaking your fingers, or shaking your hand in some weird way that makes your handshake seem limp and weak…
But in all seriousness, fuck the police and...
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Bike
Got my bike back from its overhaul yesterday afternoon. It rides like a dream! Complete overhaul: wheels tuned; brakes, chain, cassette, and cables replaced; cleaned up all nice and pretty. It just floats along as I rode in this morning, and I’m pretty sure I shaved some minutes off my normal commute! Anyway, thanks to the Denver Bicycle Cafe for the great job.
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Buntport!
Buntport’s got a new show, Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone, and the reviews (and here) are fantastic! Just made a reservation for the only (?!) matinee show, on April 1. Can’t wait!
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Today I interviewed someone who handed me a résumé saying that he’d worked at...
– Excerpt from Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, by Jenny Lawson
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