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I burned a phonebook today. Not out of emotion, but pragmatism. The room was cold and it’s entirely paper; for lack of real wood I pitched it in the fireplace. Catching the thing alight was a bit tricky, it’s to compressed to hold a flame well, so I tried to open it and lay it spine-up with the pages splayed beneath. That didn’t work to well either. It caught alight, but again everything was too thick to keep burning. Finally I flipped it over, and crumpled the top pages until they sat like a flower on top of the rest of the book. Finally I got a blaze worth something, and the bloom began to self sustain. I watched it, burning there, each page turning black and disappearing into the fire above. Archived information, page by page, disappearing. Names and numbers, consumed into the Æther, dispelled into oblivion. It was so curious, I didn’t notice how hot I’d gotten until a bead of sweat dripped into my eye. Now all that remains is embers and ash, the secrets of this book annihilated. This specific set, rather. All this data is duplicated somewhere, but I can’t help but think of other books, unique volumes of lore, pulled from a consciousness that has met the same incorporeal end as the codices scribed by their unknown authors. In this digital age, where our knowledge exists only in ephemera,  what will we leave for generations to find on our obsolete hardware?  Will they find what we’ve left? Have we gained or lost permanence in this electronic age? I guess we’ll know in time.

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I love having thing shipping to me. Tracking numbers give me something to occupy my day, and waiting on mail is like a lottery that comes to the mailbox. On the other hand, when nothing arrives day after day, it starts to gets disheartening.  I want my goddamn xbox back.

I’m tired of having my laptop sit in the living room.  I want to play Mirror’s Edge. I need Assassin’s Creed II.  I also need a better keyboard, the one on this PC in the living room sucks.

I need more interesting things to blog about. Worldwake pre-release is this weekend. Playing in Bellevue on Friday, Seattle Center on Saturday.  Not sure what’s going on Saturday night.

It has just occurred to me that I really need a haircut.  I haven’t cut my hair since I shaved my head in July.

This has been a pretty terrible post. All the statements are abrupt, and there’s no thread that really binds it all. Oh well, continuing with the stream of thought.

I’ve been doing burpees to get in shape, starting with small sets, adding one level per day. I eventually want to get to a point where I’m doing 55 per day, but that’s going to take awhile.

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That was fast. I’d assumed that keeping up with their release schedule would be a little more slack than this. Oh well.

New year seems to be going alright. The new apartment is finally starting to feel homey. We went to IKEA  and got a set of proprietary bulb that we lacked from the lamp that was picked up last year. A $15 lamp seems super-cheap untill you have to buy $10 bulbs.

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So, I upgraded wordpress,  and I guess that kind of obligates me to update the main page as well.

Lots of changes in the last few months, biggest one is that my address has changed. If you need a new mailing address for me, please e-mail or telephone me, and I will provide the new one to you. Also, if you’d like to get in on the sweet housewarming party, let me know. We’re still getting the place all sorted out, but it should be more kickass by then

You never realize how much junk you have until you try and move it all  somewhere. Half of this crap was still packed from when I had to move here from Spokane, and a lot was packed from my near-move earlier this year. Right now most of it is piled up in my room and our spare bedroom, but it should be getting sorted out the first week of next year.

More later, when I get tired of MW2

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