26
August
2008
internet-outtage-oh-noes
My internet’s been out for two days. I had to get a new modem, again. So now I’m back, but too busy with mundane issues this week to get to much until probably Friday. I’ll answer comments then. My feed jumped up to 282 today. Awesome! Mood: Cold

25
August
2008
one-reason-to-care
The New York Times online this morning featured an article on the Louisiana coast and the marshes populated by Cajuns who settled there over two hundred years ago. The land there was once replenished regularly by sediment deposits left behind when the Mississippi River overflowed and receded. Seventy years ago, the levee system along the [...]

24
August
2008
an-old-quote-from-meridjet
This was waiting for me on the next day of the archives, when I looked at the tab I never closed yesterday. The post is from November 3, 2003 but the quote is older. I found it then, in an old email. I don’t relate to who I was a few months ago… my perspective, my [...]

24
August
2008
layout-complete
So, I finished the blog theme I started last night. It only took about 10 hours longer than I anticipated. I’m torn on the banner. What do you think of it? Is it too amateurish? I’ve stripped the moods from my posts since they duplicated themselves up to five times per post. They’ll work okay [...]

23
August
2008
halloweens-of-yore-and-spirit-induced-utis
This post is from November 2, 2003 (the one I just posted was from October of 2003, but the events themselves were four years prior). I’m going to bed in a minute but wanted to leave one more Meridjet-related story before I went. I’m trying to sleep forward; sleep deprivation backfires and makes me manic, [...]