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I saw this at the Daily Dish.  Worth a look…

Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.

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Have a great 2009!!!

theOwl

You know Chipmunks.

We have some history with Chipmunks at our house. I think we’ve captured and deported four in the last four days. They’re incredibly cute – but they invade our house.

And seem to multiply exponentially…

theOwl

There’s a feeling that comes over me from time to time – funny enough, more often than not on Friday night. I remember nights in Los Angeles, leaning on the edge of the world, lonely as hell.

Drink a beer. Take a walk. Drive twenty miles to walk on a beach and listen to the waves, a thousand miles clear.

You live you learn.

OOOeeee the Wild Night is Calling

(this is an old draft that I could not bear to throw away)

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Earlier this evening I watched some home videos of my kids when they were little – precious stuff – and I got to thinking how I’m richer than Napoleon.

The Emperor could never see his children as they were five years in the past. Not for all the money in the world.

And it’s routine for me.

I’m rich rich rich.

theOwl

I had an interesting exchange with the guy who was attempting to restore the files in my computer earlier this evening. I said something about how not having the computer at 100% over the weekend would be akin to some kind of silicon lobotomy.

He said that this is why lots of people never can accept computers into their lives. They fear dependence.

I said “yeah, it’s as if accepting the computer as a simbiotic appendage implies some surrendering of sovereignty as a human being – but they’re so powerful…”

(By the way, the deal with my computer is that the hard disc was damaged and bumping and clicking against the widget (read/write head?)that reads the hard disc – or something like that.

I now have a new hard disk (with a bit more memory), but most of our files are still on the old disk, which I must wait until Monday to access, as the parking lot at the computer place is being paved tomorrow and they will be closed. All my preferences are gone. I’m in Safari without bookmarks.

It could be a lot worse. I am backed up pretty good, I think – the files are just not back on the computer yet. Wish me luck…)

theOwl

These last few days I’ve been having problems with the computer and have been unable to focus to post at theWheel.  Today I’ve been backing up what I can.

Tomorrow it’s in to the shop for diagnostics.

Then we’ll see what comes after that.

It’s scary when your surrogate brain is on the fritz.

theOwl

Today at the pool I received instruction from my daughter on how to do a freestyle “flip-turn“. This is where you swim almost all the way to end of the pool and then convulsively dive down, flip over and push off from the wall.

Don’t try this.

theOwl

I bought a “Black Diamond” watermelon today. I have no clear idea at this point what distinguishes a Black Diamond watermelon from other melons.

It is kinda black. Actually, really dark forest green. Allegedly seeded.

Lately they’ve all been seedless. I had developed a bad attitude about seedless watermelons until this year’s 4th of July seedless watermelon turned out to be really excellent.

The seedless melon cost 6 dollars. The Black Diamond was 4.

I’ll let you know.