Warm

[prog]

Who told the weather that it could be all warm again? Grah.

Again I say: why isn't this business headline news? Gorgeous weather spikes paranoia in area man or its equivalent would fit in nicely under all that Patriots plap.

Speaking of, I enjoy seeing cool people enjoying sports, even though I do not at all. I think being uninterested in sports is one thing, but it takes extra mental focus to live in Boston and not care at least a little about Boston (or New England) teams. (And it requires vein-popping psychic resistance to feel nothing for the Red Sox, but it's not time for that yet.)

Anyway: yesterday I finished my rewrite of that section (it's about Perl and XML and Unicode, yus, funsy-wunsies) and the combination of feeling satisfied with a writing assignment and the warm weather made it difficult not to misperceive myself as having just finished a spring semester term paper for college. Hum.

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In Diesel now. Happy. Other things about this place: it has a higher Room rating than the 1369 (to further abuse The Sims as a metaphor generation unit). More space, big glass front, booths and couches in back if you're lucky enough to score them. And, yes, as cthulhia points out, I'm more likely to bump into friends here. (However, I should note that my reuniting with Noah and Melissa occurred the very first time I ventured into the 1369, last summer.)

On the minus column, my cellphone doesn't work in here. It does in the other place. I just now wandered outside to call Erik, and ask if he wanted to sink some time into rewriting one particular section that we've been getting some strange remarks about. He said: Uuurgh, because he is swamped in his own work. So it looks like it's all me for the next two days. Hum hum hum. We'll see.

Comments

boston sports

[magid.livejournal.com]

i dunno; i've lived in massachusetts my entire life (barring the time abroad), and still manage to feel nothing for team sports, local or otherwise.

i think i have sports-deficient genes.

Re: boston sports

[prog.livejournal.com]

I, on the other hand, grew up in a very sports-religious household. My brother Peter is the most fanatical of them all.

When the Red Sox are not winning (in the scope of either a single game or globally) Peter refers to them by the courtesy title "The ol'" followed by one of the following:

• Dead Sox


• Red Slops


• Red Flops


• Dead Slops


• Flopper-doppers


• Slopper-dopper-flopper-moppers (etc.)

Re: boston sports

[magid.livejournal.com]

my dad is addicted to sports. but (a) doing them, or (b) watching ones that normal red-blooded americans are not interested in, like almost any non-team sport (downhill skiing; tour de france (this was the 70's, no one cared about bicycling); tennis; skating, both speed and figure). ok, there were some team sports he likes, but soccer and bobsledding are just not there for most americans.

flopper doppers

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

I forget where it came from but Shawn and his old buddy Justin occasionally say 'schlippety slap slap doodad.' I say it often enough that it has lost any contextual meaning, I don't know if it was a superlative or a euphemism or what. fun to say though.

also Megan's dad used to say (as I heard from her retelling) 'know what I mean, jellybean?' a lot, and recently for me everything is bean, particularly 'sleepy bean' in reference to myself or the pupster (see picture). (I guess also see my first irritable entry.)

Re: boston sports

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

My boss today asked me "Did you forget the Super Bowl is this weekend, and the Patriots are playing?" (She's leaving town Sunday for a business trip, which means timing of the game is, I guess, important.)

And I said, "I could not possibly care less. But I had, in fact, forgotten."

She gave me an odd look.

Sports don't generally register much of a blip on my radar. Oh well.

Re: boston sports

[magid.livejournal.com]

a call from a friend last night, during which she mentioned the superbowl this sunday. i hadn't known it was this weekend, either. she had figured it out in the supermarket when she saw all the big banners saying things like "stock up for the superbowl!"

it's good to know, i guess. traffic will be lighter during the game. which starts, uh, when? and there's probably a pre-game things, too. wonder how long that lasts...

(the only other thing i think about is how many abused women will be hit tonight if the patriots lose, or if the other team loses. i don't know why traffic and batterers are all that come to mind with the superbowl....)