The bright side of a Moon
An opportunity (a suggestion, really, just a hint) came up today to go to London in April.
I immediately started pricing airplane tickets, counting how many vacation days I’d have, mentally moving funds around to clear space on my AmEx gold card… and telling everyone I know that I might be going to London in April!!!!1!ONE
Including you, the reader, now.
Can you tell how much the idea excites me?
My apartment building was sold again.
The new landlord will be the fourth owner since I moved there.
The current guy is the only one who has offered his email address. That rocks. I very much prefer email communication.
He might get tired of email, though. From me, bombarding him with emails.
I’ll try to hold back.
I finally sold my old iPod last night. I’ve been trying to sell it since before my Christmas Cancún vacation but I got nothing but flakes off of craigslist. Flakes and low-ballers. “I’ll give you $50 for it.”
Um, no. The damned thing is worth at least $150, asshat.
And the other type of craisglist buyer is the one who pesters me with endless questions and then disappears. That’s also annoying and a waste of my time.
But since selling something on craigslist is free, unlike, say, eBay, it’s worth it to persevere and hold out for a good price. Except for the fact that I really really needed the money, like, a month and a half ago. But other than that…
And guess what? (Chickenbutt!) I got $150 for a 30GB, 5th Generation white iPod video. Which is what it’s worth, if you look at closed eBay auctions for the same product.
I’ve been working on a long, well-organized and articulate post about fear.
I’m afraid I’ll never finish it.
I’m afraid I’ll never post it.
…which is the point, essentially.
Dammit.
I’m not one to ignore the evidence.
Wal-Mart’s board has actually committed to three environmental goals for the retail giant:
In an October, 2005, speech titled “Twenty-First Century Leadership,” Wal-Mart committed to three large sustainability goals: to be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, to create zero waste, and to sell products that sustain our resources and the environment. The company set goals of increasing fuel efficiency in Wal-Mart’s truck fleet by 25 percent over the next three years, and doubling it within 10 years; reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2012; and reducing energy use at stores by 30 percent.
They may be anti-union and ruthlessly monopolistic and funding enemies of democracy but being green is a plus in my eyes.
You probably already knew this, though.
I saw “Cloverfield” by myself. I see a lot of movies by myself. I’d like to see more movies with other people. Problem is, I usually ask too late – I’m on the way to the theater, having only decided an hour or two previously which movie and which showing.
To prevent that, I’ve taken a look at the movies opening in the next two weeks in Portland, and here’s the ones I’m interested in seeing. If you want to see it, too, contact me or post a comment and we’ll work out a time.
…or feel free to point out any hidden gems you’d like to introduce me to.
Here’s the trailer for “Persepolis”, which opens at the Fox Cinemas next Friday:
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One year from today, George W. Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney will serve their last day in the office of the President and Vice President of the United States.
That means that every day after today will be the last day of that date that we have them as our country’s leaders.
At least that’s the hope.
I am so jealous of Matt Davis. He has my dream job. I think getting told to fuck off would be a badge of honor for an investigative journalist. I don’t think Matt is whining; he’s bragging.
Amy J. Ruiz, I can do this stuff, too, and I’m at least as brilliant as Matt. Plus I speak American and won’t try to expense all that warm beer. Hire me!
Kidding – mostly (I really am just as brilliant).
Good job, Matt. Keep at it.
The following are the top ten downsides to the thinness of the MacBook Air:
With Mitt Romney’s lie-about-anything robotic charm, and Mike Huckabee’s open desire to make America a narrow-minded theocracy, in the interest of political theater I’m hereby rooting for a Mitt/Mike ticket for the Republican race for the presidency!
Romney/Huckabee ’08! The most un-electable candidates ever!