Month: August 2005

    Went by the thrift store in Gloucester. Like always,
I was looking for records. Among the usual dreck I found something.
SCORE! It’s a dance remix of ABC’s “Poison Arrow.” OK, it’s not exactly
an RCA “Shaded Dog” or a Columbia “Third Eye” recording, but I love
finding these historical oddities. They charged a buck for it, which I
thought was a little high, but what the hell, it’s for charity. The
flip side of the 12″ single  has the theme to “Man Trap.” Don’t
know if I’ve ever heard that before. I’ll have to get my turntable up
and running soon… Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make me happy.

Isaac

    They had a lot of fun. Really though, just about
anything is more fun tham me yakking at them for a couple of hours.
Hands on is one of the best ways to learn, and they learned quite a
bit. The darkroom worked well although I can’t imagine any more people
than 4 using it at one time… They all agreed to come back next week.
That’s good for me since it’s much closer than the regular classroom.
I’m also getting paid to do something that I really like, can’t beat
that!

Isaac

    When people come to my website via a search engine,
I can see what they were searching for. You’ll never guess what the
most common search is that pulls up my site. It’s “fainting sheep”. I
kid you not… That particular phrase is in one of my descriptions on
my links page. I got a kick out of that…

Isaac

    Helped Giane move into her new apartment today. It’s
up in the Woodley Park area., small and cute, just like her:-) She’s
really happy, better than I’ve seen her in a long time. With any luck
I’ll be going back in a couple of weeks to hang out. This had to be the
easiest move I’ve ever done. No stairs, no furniture, very few
breakables. The key was the lack of stuff, all of her belongings fit
into three cars (with lots of room to spare). Maybe I should take a
hint before my next move and get rid of a lot of my crap.
    While we were unloading, I noticed that my right
front tire was worn down to the steel belt on one side. GROAN, I knew
the alingment was off a bit, but this tire was dangerous, had to have
it fixed. I acted like a local going back home, just went south for a
ways, turned down conneticut ave, and then picked up M street to the
key bridge. I had little idea of what I was doing, but I acted as if I
did. I don’t like driving downtown, but when I just let myself go in
the general direction, everything went fine. I should remember that…
    Anyway, went to the tire place and had to make a
decision. I could have just gotten two of the tires replaced, but I’ve
never really liked these tires. I have zero traction in the snow, not
much on wet pavement, and they rode  very loudly. I think that
they were just a bad match for the car I have. So I got all new tires,
alignment, I needed a new battery, and 625 bucks later I have a safe
vehicle again. I knew I needed to do some stuff, but just not right
away. I’m even more glad that I didn’t spring for the train tickets to
Conneticut, I would be even further in the hole.
    Still, it was good to take care of that before my
drive down to Gloucester. So even the bad stuff was good I suppose. I’m
looking forward to my mini vacation coming up, I’ve got thursday
through monday off. Hopefully I’ll decompress a bit and get renergized.

Isaac