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Archive for February 2003

the history of our home

Posted on 2/20/2003

So C. contacted the city a while back to find out what info they might have about our house on file…today we got a big packet full of photocopied records. Interesting stuff, although most of it was permit filing:
- our house was built as part of a low-income housing development (along with a group […]

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mental health day

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today I took (am taking) one of my “personal leave” days….
I wake up each morning to the radio; lately, I’ve been able to get good enough reception on one of the local NPR stations that it’s what I wake up to. my alarm goes off at 5:30, and I have about a half-hour of […]

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the emerging garden

Posted on 2/17/2003

all of these plants were gifts from D. around the corner, who is a great, if not particularly orderly, gardener.

tulips are starting to come up….

these ones are just barely visible amongst the leaf litter that I buried them in last fall. it doesn’t seem that long ago, and yet it does.

I’m actually not sure […]

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no snow for you!

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I’ve been reading people’s entries about the great blizzard of ‘03, notably:
- Mark P.
- Josh Marshall
as I’ve been saying all winter, it’s never, ever going to snow again. Kat said yesterday that she’d heard that there’s been so little snow in Alaska this winter that they had to move the route for the Iditarod sled […]

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everybody together now: “holy crap!”

Posted on 2/16/2003

- Dan Gillmor: Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
- Gbloogle: what it all (may) mean
I missed all this last night because I was reading Smart Mobs (excellent exciting/depressing book, btw) and this morning because I was serving as an ad-hoc research assistant.
dude. I have no idea what this means. I hear/read the […]

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things I was gonna do, but I’m too goddamn tired

Posted on 2/7/2003

finish family-related coding project (and maybe write about said project)
set up Paula’s 2nd blog
write blog entry based on Ralph’s comment about the progression of technology
clean my fscking desk
organize tax paperwork
finish the perpetual redesign
instead, I’m going to have a couple of cookies, read a few blogs and maybe a magazine, and then go to bed.

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.