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Setting aside, for the moment, the matter of the new job, I just left a message for the owners of the Roosevelt about getting inside to take pictures. Hopefully I'll hear back soon and we can schedule something. This Sunday might be good, or sometime after work next week perhaps.

I'm going to see if I can get in touch with my grandfather today about going to visit after my doctor's appointment tomorrow. I don't often have a chance to go see them and I'd really like to talk to him and show him my pictures of the Forevertron. I've been really remiss in trying to schedule a time to go see that with him, so maybe I'll talk to Andrea about when our schedule permits and see if he wants to go with me a few weekends from now. This weekend and next are probably busy, but maybe then one after. I hope it's not too terribly cold by then.

I'm being more organized by trying to schedule things in my Outlook calendar at work and using the tasks feature to remind myself of things to do. I just wasn't keeping up with Google calendar. Maybe I should try that again too, but the Outlook one is more convenient for me, and more convenience equals more usage.

Posi; found out that the six sleds in my DEC tower at home actually have the 80 pin SCSI adapters in them. I realized they might after I looked and saw they were the same color as that other one. I took those four 72GB full heights and loaded them in my tower. I'm going to try spinning them up tonight. Since I don't have any more 72GB drives, I probably don't need that double-wide case. Do you still know someone else who'd like it?

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I'm on a mailing list at work wherein people are going back and forth challenging each other to donate more and more money to our corporate charity for an annual event we hold to benefit said charity. (Yes. I'm being vague.)

That's fantastic. I think it's great that people want to give to a worthy cause. I just did that myself today, as a matter of fact. I took advantage of Sixapart's offer of a free $30 gift certificate for Donors Choose and gave thirty bucks to a teacher who's trying to collect enough funds to buy a video recorder for her grade school theatre class. That's great.

It's even better that I see people here where I work donating huge amounts of money to a charity that not only is a very good one, but is involved with something that affects a couple of very close relations to me. But I'm just amazed to see people donating amounts like $1000 or $1500. I've been thinking very hard about becoming an NPR member with a $100 donation, but haven't quite been able to justify that yet. It's an amazing thing to contemplate; being in a position where I could give $1500 to a charity. Admittedly, I'd like to be in that position some day, but it's going to take a while, and with neither my parents nor myself ever having had that much discretionary income, thinking about it causes this weird paradigm shift in my brain.

I swear; I'd be a really good rich person. Just one winning lottery ticket, and right after I buy the Rhode and the Kenosha theatres, spend about ten million renovating them, and sink money into redeveloping the downtown district, I'll be giving money to people left and right. Really. Please?

Here's a question for you. If you had the chance to invest a bunch (ten million or so) of money into a charity, or even better, a project, of your choosing, what would it be? I've dreamed for years of being able to revitalize Kenosha's entertainment district and downtown. How about you?

On an unrelated note, the more I listen to This American Life and other such shows on NPR, the more I want to be a photojournalist. That is such an incredible program sometimes.

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Mark your calendars; it's a meme from the Stormdog.

Halloween Meme

akreaveter puts real eyeballs in your Bank Manager's lunchbox

farm_cat haunts your brains

infintysquared devours the entire neighbourhood's socks

laureth swoops on wooisme and drains their pumpkin

mocha_mephooki creates an unholy monstrosity from posicat, tygercowboy and mocha_mephooki

moryssa gives you a toothbrush

polymorphism carves todd_riverden's effigy in the medium of candy

posicat calls tygercowboy to let them know the psycho killer's in the front seat

sabrinageek runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by mocha_mephooki, wielding a sharpened cutlery

serinthia TPs sabrinageek

steviemaxwell puts fake eyeballs in your gerbils

todd_riverden dresses up as polymorphism

tybis eats steviemaxwell's spicy, spicy brains.

tygercowboy summons the undead armies of infintysquared to steal your candy

wooisme puts apples in your razorblades

LJ Name

mocha_mephooki is pretty busy there....

Is it scary that I can perfectly well imagine infinitysquared stealing an entire neighborhood's worth of socks? I don't think he'd eat them though, even though he is a hamster. I think he'd turn them into a vast public art project. Maybe he could combine it with that candy sculpture that polymorphism is making.

tybis! What have I told you about eating people's brains? Bad foxxy!

moryssa! It's so kind of you to be concerned about my dental hygiene with all this Halloween candy around. Thanks!

No comment on laureth doing anything to my wife's pumpkin....