As long as there is chess there will be civilization.

work
Worked my ass off today. Got a lot done. Tomorrow: meeting with new client. Need to get perfect with the CitySoft platform. Need to cram more ColdFusion in my head. And get better at SQL. Do some marketing. Focus less on poems and more on business for a while so I can keep food on the table.

But my markup validates.

AG
Keep thinking about this person. Can't shake her off. What the hell. This is gonna be one of those five year recovery periods. %$#@! Coming up on the end of year 4. I remember the first year. I was the hurtin'est dog in the pound. I'm hoping I do not run into her in DC when I visit for a week in July. I don't want to see her.

I don't know what the solution is but believe it involves dancing. It certainly involves hanging out w/ my cool siblings and cool niece and cool nephew.

bro
Last night Ian beat me at chess. He's quite smart. I like having him around. He's a considerate housemate. He hangs out in his room and reads and listens to music. Studying for his PhD at U of Chicago. Last night I astonished him twice, by listening to Madonna's Ray of Light CD then watching an episode of Bob Ross. Happy little trees.

soledad
I've been pretty solitary these past six months. Holed up, read books, did web work, did gym, wrote poems. A few dates, a few flirtations, but that's all I feel like doing. Maybe in a year. This is shaping up to be a regular Dear Diary entry.

DC
I'm coming there 16 - 21 July. To catch up with clients who like to see my face now and then. Many friends there I miss a lot. All of whom should move to Chicago. We have fun here. A very bicycle friendly town. And we have this gigantic silver bean that we keep in a park. It's worth it to move here just for the gigantic silver bean.

gigantic silver bean
Who knows what's inside it. Money? Is that where the city keeps its budget? Is it solid? Or maybe full of pennies? Dark matter? Music? Mayonnaise?

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Chicago
I invite my entire flist to move to Chicago. You can stay with me till you get your own place. It will be crowded with all of you here. But we can play chess and Settlers of Catan. Who's got wood for sheep? Does that joke ever get old?

Song for my sister
When I was ten and she was seven
I should have gotten my sister out of there,
I should have said Come on, sis,
pack your bag, we're getting out of here,
we're joining the circus and not coming back
till our parents come to their senses.

(Start of poem. Dunno the rest yet.) Ya'll have a good night.

tigerlily35

Every week Comcast bombs my apartment complex with a new bundle of marketing mailings. That's twenty of these Comcast Special Offers each month, without end. We are also bombed with the weekly grocery coupon mailings, and piles of offers from banks and credit card companies. It's very wasteful.


It's hard to tell in this photo but white sacrificed a queen then cagily checkmated black using a bishop and two knights, just as the mid-game was beginning. Slick!

Fischer, RIP. The guy had some real issues. A very, very angry person and he did not channel his anger in a healthy way.

It's illogical to hate an entire religion, or an entire race, gender or orientation for that matter. I mean it's just not rational. Given the number of individual variances it's not rational to state with finality any group judgment at all. I believe Fischer was smarter than that and I hope in his saner calmer moments (I hope further they were the majority) he regretted his anti-Semitic rants.

He did make the valid point that America has many problems. Not the least of which is Americans: greedy, proud, fearful, a little chubby overall. USA!*

Anyway he's dead now.

* Is this an irrational judgment of a variable group? Oh yeah.