The Year of Living Musically
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They came up the escalator together: a very tall man, with grey hair and an expensive-looking coat, and a much smaller woman, also grey-haired, but with a coat that, if equally expensive, didn’t seem designed to say anything about the wearer. When I asked them if I could help them find anything, they spoke simultaneously. I think she said something about Mozart operas; he, much more loudly, said, “No, we don’t need anything. She’s sleep-deprived.”
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My New Year’s Eve was quiet. After I got off work at 7:30, I headed home, where one of my housemates cooked dinner for the group of us. We contemplated various activities, then ended up kicking back with a magnum of Anchor Steam winter ale and watching a DVD. We noted when midnight hit, and all said that we were glad to see 2006 go.
Another housemate wondered idly if 2007 was a prime number. After about a minute, still watching the movie, I announced that it wasn’t, since it was equal to 223 times nine.
A third housemate looked over at me. “Did you just figure that out in your head?”
“Yeah,” I said. “But I’m that kind of a geek.”
Actually, though, figuring it out wasn’t hard.
I’ve always been told that it’s not good to go to bed angry. But waiting to calm down, after using my computers, means that I get very little sleep.
One thing that drive me utterly nuts is when software does something on its own, ignoring my directions, just because it wants to do it.
I’ve been getting messages for the past few days about the new format of this blog. Since I hadn’t looked at the blog in several days, I wasn’t sure what people meant. When I went to the page, I found, to my dismay, that the formatting that I had carefully created was gone. The large, very readable serif font was gone, replaced by the current tiny sans serif font, and the margins were wrong. (If you look at the pages with full posts, you’ll see my picture overlapping and obscuring several character from the left end of the paragraph next to it.) Continue Reading »
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