Almost forgot I was to be writing 100 words tonight. Well, not that I forgot, but that I just got distracted with a little trip to Dick & Kitty’s tonight after my 2nd shift…

Being home now, the next song that comes up on my iTunes is Andy Gibb’s “Love Is Thicker Than Water”. My first memory of this is when I would run into the yellow-muddied woods of middle Texas with junior high school girls to test our kissing abilities. Humble as I am, I can say that I was always the boy the girls wanted to make out with. I was am a good kisser.

Then, as I’m heading to Mexico City for spring break in 1988, I’m sitting in the airport reading of Andy’s death and it somehow rings true and reminds of those innocent days on a military base in the middle of Texas. RIP Andy, you made a mark.

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So on my “Sunday” today, I didn’t really do too much. Actually nothing. I updated my MobileMe calendar to the new version. Big whoop. My operating system (because it’s so old) doesn’t support all the functions of the new calendar and so it wasn’t an automatic upgrade as it would have been. I had to do a little backend work, but it was all laid out here and everything went according to plan.

I found ‘Scotchie’s favorite sleeping place while I was home today. It’s on the radiator in the living room. But also while I’m here all day (a rarity) she also likes to cuddle up with me which is cute. I feel bad working so many hours at my 2.5 jobs so it’s good to give her some snuggle time.

I went to dinner with Melba tonight, to our usually place La Lomita.

Tomorrow is my Monday while it’s everybody else’s Friday. Oh well. And tomorrow is the first of my three 12-hour days. What a way to start the week, right? I’m anxious to get back into work though. Fun!

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What did I do on my “Saturday”? I first woke up around 7:00 am but then was able to fall back asleep until around 11, which was really nice. I finished watching Monday’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race and then physically got out of bed.

I lumbered around until Apple’s press conference came live where they announced iPad 2. It has some really great features; you can view the keynote here.

This evening I went out with some friends to Little Miss Whiskey’s Silver Dollar for casual cocktails. Afterwards we stopped by the under construction offices of Evolve’s new space on H St. It’s going to be a really cool office space and I can’t wait until we move in there.

I’m home a little earlier than I anticipated on a night I have between two days off but that’s fine. Tomorrow I’ve got a lot of chores to do and finish everything I was too lazy to do today. Thanks for reading.

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Thanks to a reference from friend and blogger GGWoo, and also as a spark to commit to writing again, I am going to participate in 100 Words during March. This consists of writing at least 100 words every day. I think I can do this.

Working retail for one of my 2.5 jobs, today is my Friday. In an unheard of coincidence I have tomorrow and Thursday off, just like I had Wednesday and Thursday off last week. And guess what? My schedule also has me having next Wednesday and Thursday off as well! So after going six months without two days off in a row, now I have three straight weeks of double days off. What a relief. Last week’s “weekend” consisted of sleeping and relaxing but these two days off will be a little more active.

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Tonight I was awarded the “Person Who Best Exemplifies Our Company’s Culture” or something to that wording. It felt great to be recognized as such because it was voted upon by my peers. I feel proud and very appreciative right now. In addition to a bottle of sparkling cider, this is the statue I won. I will lurv her.

Here are some posts that, because of my mobile WordPress not working properly, I wasn’t able to upload at the time they were written. They’re from the vaults of two months ago.

Nov 28, 2010 1:50 PM

Sometimes it’s funny how much/little time & space actually change. For instance, I’m sitting here in Mr. Henry’s Victorian Pub in 2010, alone, inputing this copy on an iPad, whereas 25 years ago I was here with a table full of friends, drinking and smoking up a storm, listening to the 45s in the jukebox. Today the Internet jukebox is silent, smoking has been banned but I’m still having a cocktail. Because for me that’s what Henry’s is about: cocktails. Well, cocktails and good times with friends. I’m here at an unusual time ( 3:30 on a Wednesday) but the friends will show up later.

Fast forward four days…

Now I’m sitting in my new favorite coffee shop, First Cup Cafe. A random stop that I found here, and they just infirm me they’ll be closing in half an hour, so let’s see how much writing I can get in. First Cup is located across the street from where I looked to move (into Mira’s apt) a few years ago but didn’t make it past the screening process. So it could have been my neighborhood coffee shop but for now it’s one that I happened to drop into for coffee and a place to kill time.

Why am I killing time, you ask? For a number of reasons, actually. The first is that today is (another) Open House day at 1526 so, on my day off, I have to get out and do something. Luckily, Jim Darling was participating in an iPhone-only photography exhibit so I went and saw that since he was going to be at the gallery today. The gallery is Fathom Creative’s and there’s way too many personal references to go into right now about Fathom. Let’s just say I always wanted to work there.

After the exhibit I wandered down to the National Archives to do some genealogy research for my Dad. Since I’m seeing him in a few days I figured I should get this down since he asked me to do it several months ago. I find out they’re closed on Sundays so I will again be playing the role of FailureSon this year for Thanksgiving. Sigh.

I’m meeting with friends later and due to public transportation and needing to be out of the house, it doesn’t make sense to go home, hence the killing time wandering around, it feels like 1995 all over again, when I would wander around DC as a new transplant, maybe it’s time to listen to some Blur.

Now I’ve walked the few blocks to Logan Circle which is nothing like the Logan Circle I used to know. Boughie! And nary a homeless person in sight!

Dupont Circle. Now *this* place has definitely changed in the last 20 years.

And here’s another archive:

Dec 1, 2010 sometime in the afternoon

Today is another kicked-out-of-the-house-due-to-realtors day. Which really sucks because I’ve got an ad that’s due and I’d really like to be working on it right now. Sigh. Another hour to go.

I walked down to Jacob’s to get some coffee but they were too crowded and it was way too warm in there. So I journeyed on down to Sova, on H, and it’s pretty nice in here, sofas and chairs to lounge on but no free WiFi. But that’s fine, I’m using signal from the Biergarten next door.

Here’s Duran Duran making a video of making a video. It’s footage from their publicity shoot(s) for their album All You Need Is Now, which is available now on iTunes. The deluxe expanded version drops March 22 in digital and physical formats.

I like that this video features the very new wave sounding “Blame The Machines”. It’s track 2.

Hello there.

Today is the 2nd day of the first two days in a row I have had off since August. I am doing absolutely nothing, just like I did yesterday: being lazy at home. Waking up whenever I want, making coffee and surfing, listening to music. I didn’t shower yesterday and I won’t shower today either.

This is the first post of 2011. And the first post since three months ago. I could write the delay off to 1) my last updating of WordPress software went wrong and there are errors in uploading on my mobile devices; 2) the Big Computer Crash of ’11 that kept my li’l iMac out of commish for about a month; or 3) downright laziness. I’ll let you decide which is most appropriate.

Here’s more about the BCC of ’11. My iMac is over five years old and I’ve never had one single problem with it. Last month I started having some strange reboot issues. The computer would freeze up on restarts, turning the fan on before the desktop appears and then hanging there. Sometimes another hard reboot would allow it to boot up properly, sometimes not. Then it got to the point where the freeze/fan would happen every time. Time for a doctors appointment.

It was hard drive failure. Fine. For $200 I get a new, twice as large hard drive (500M). I’m trying to restore my Time Machine backups on there and after a week or so of fidgeting/resetting the hard drive crashes AGAIN. So this is my now 3rd hard drive and everything seems to be going okay. Thank Zod for TM backups, at least I didn’t lose any information.

So that’s about it for now. Let’s talk again soon.

WMATA, Metro’s official name, has been has been undergoing “scheduled track work” on all five of its train lines for about the last six weeks. This track work involves “one-tracking” which is where they will close one side of the track fir the work and the cars have to share the other side of the track, taking their turn one at a time. As you can probably guess, there are massive delays.

They have scheduled these track work days on the weekend as to not interfere with all the government workings commuting into the DC, as this was the reason the entire Metro transit system was built. Like most elements of life in DC, those who are not lawyers, politicians or suck-up lobbyists, our needs don’t really matter. So having to get to work on time during the weekend while having to rely on Metro is, needless to say, a great big pain in the ass.

So here’s my idea for a mobile app. It would be called “Made U Look!” and would function something like this:

Once the app was installed on your phone, your phone’s GPS would automatically register when you entered a Metro station. Maybe you would have to check-in manual but it would be cool if it did it automatically. It would also automatically check with WMATA’s Trip Planner page. After the inevitable numerous delays, when you exited the system your phone would again mark which station you are exiting from and communicate with WMATA. Then, it would reverse calculate how long that trip should have taken according to the Trip Planner and then compare it to the actual time you sat in the dark tunnel waiting for that goddamned train. As a bonus, you would be able to log into your Made U Look account and see how you rank with others who have wasted time for waiting for trains to see who has wasted the most time that week, month and quarter. Great idea, right?