Jan. 3rd, 2003

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By this time tomorrow, I should be up and running on Speakeasy. Who have much more interesting hold music than any other company I've ever called. Right now, I'm waiting for the DSL box to show up, which should happen today, because the DirecTV boxes just won't work with the Speakeasy service, due to some sort of customized settings or something. (They weren't sure exactly what the problem was, but no one had been able to get it to actually work, even though all the green lights come on.) So I had no net at home last night or this morning. And I'm pretty sure there was something more interesting I was going to post last night, but I've lost it now. It'll probably come back to me, though.

Tomorrow, I need to get up about the same time I do on every other day, instead of sleeping in a bit like I was doing, go to yoga at the new location of my studio, in some order: eat, do whichever errands I don't get done today, unpack/clean house. Errands include: comics (Must have more Strangers! and maybe more Sandman), music (read about this cool Xmas compilation on the plane, hoping Tower or maybe Wherehouse will have it, otherwise, I'll look online), calendar (desktop page a day), food (Luna bars and maybe other stuff for my desk). Unpacking will include unpacking the list o' stuff, so I'l probably take a break to write thank you notes and such. Somewhere in there, I'd like to watch a movie or two and work on my knitting, or maybe, since the Star Wars game isn't running, I'll se if I can go catch up on Buffy and Firefly. But Bob may have made other plans.

Need to remember to bring excess Xmas candy to work for coworkers to help consume. But not the dark chocolate from Europe. (Switzerland, I think, but might've been bought in France.) That's all mine. :) I have an abundance of coffee now, too. Which means I should pick up more filters, since mine didn't come back to me after Conjecture. (My fault for not labeling them.) And figure out how the new espresso maker works, which will hopefuly be obvious once I take the shinkwrap off. (Stovetop variety -- any tips?)

I should also attempt to actually get something done at work today.
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It's apathy rooted in individualism. We[1] know how to act as individuals and how to care about individuals, but not how to be part of a large group or how to care about, or sometimes even how to see, the big picture. We know how to live and let live, not how to make a difference. It's the other end of the pendulum from the rigid, controlling society that is the stereotype of the past, of the 40s and 50s among other eras.

I'm always wary of extremes. I don't think we're at the theoretical end of this spectrum yet, but we're farther along it than I'm happy with. Looked at one way, the scary homeland security stuff is an overreaction to this -- "too much difference! out of control! scary! must enforce sameness!" But rather than creating a nice middle ground, we simply have competing extremes. Not good.

[1] Me and those like me in this regard, not anything more universal. I am not trying to speak for anyone who doesn't want to be spoken for.
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