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[miles]

Paul, next time you roll through SLC you still have a place to stay. It's a bit farther south but we have an actual guest room with a real bed, so all in all an upgrade I'd say.

[wombat]

Aw, look at those pugs. Those were such good pugs.

[pmcd9]

Paul, next time you roll through SLC you still have a place to stay. It's a bit farther south but we have an actual guest room with a real bed, so all in all an upgrade I'd say.

Thanks man, I may do one day. And thanks for having my back on Facebook yesterday. That woman is a nutjob.

[miles]

Thanks man, I may do one day. And thanks for having my back on Facebook yesterday. That woman is a nutjob.

Some people man.

[theinevitable]

Today two different people asked me if I'm OK because I seem frazzled. I think I need a shave and a haircut in a major way. This is the time of year that I start wanting a buzz cut, but I am pretty sure that it feels better than it looks. I'll have plenty of time for the buzzcut if/when I start balding.

[pmcd9]

Your  hair looks great in that picture Jough posted.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I've met JL, Pedro Picasso, Miles, AugustWest, Wombat, Jorge Faberge and... is that all? It seems like I'm missing someone. Oh yeah... Choop and Iron Felix.

Dragonfire in action by Carlos del Vaca, on Flickr

[pmcd9]

Oh shit, I forgot Carlos!!!

[pmcd9]

Sorry Carlos, my only excuse is it was the same trip I met JL and Wombat, so, you know, priorities, I guess.

[theinevitable]

As I think about having to move in a few months, I find myself once again wanting to sell/donate many of my possessions. A big question is kitchenware. It's tempting to get rid of stuff that I barely use (since I only cook for myself and never host people) to make space, and assume that in the future I will have more space and money if I need to buy things again. On the other hand, I'll feel stupid when I want to bake a cake in a year and remember giving away my unused cake pans.

I already made a big pile of college textbooks that need to go. That is a lot of space and poundage freed up.

A painful one is my guitar amplifier. I use it very, very rarely since I moved out here, and it's heavy and takes up a lot of space. It's hard to imagine that I will live someplace where I can use a 50 watt guitar amplifier, unless I move back to St Louis. I think it would make sense to sell it and replace it with something small once I'm settled down. But ugh. My amp!

[wombat]

Musical stuff is so hard to get rid of. We have so many instruments we never play anymore. Every couple of years I pick up the guitar and mess around with it but we have all these neglected early music instruments. The Tech Staff still plays the viols sometimes, but the rest are totally ignored. But he would never go along with finding them better homes. On the bright side I guess none of them are as big as a guitar amplifier.

The only thing I ever sold was a button accordion. The bellows dry out and are ruined if you never use it, so I convinced myself it needed to live with someone who had occasion to actually play it. But I still think about regretfully every now again.

[theinevitable]

It is probably true that at the end of every semester, I think "this is the one where I don't make it." I am pretty sure that as long as I turn in something for the three projects that are due Monday and Tuesday I will graduate. But getting there is not going to be fun.

I have gotten a lot better at starting things ahead of time. Unfortunately the difficulty of the projects has increased at the same rate as I have gotten better.

[pmcd9]

I don't think the emotional attachment is as strong for amplifiers, unless it's something rare.

[wombat]

I don't think it's a sentimental attachment. It's attachment to the belief that you are the sort of person who is going to play those instruments again.

[theinevitable]

yeah. I kind of worry that if I sell the amp, I'll never replace it. And I'll be a guy with a nice guitar that he plays unplugged. And then I'll do that less and less, until I'm a guy with a nice guitar in his attic. But who knows, when I move maybe I'll find people to play music with and I'll get an amp as soon as I have the money.

Last night I was up until 4 writing this paper about St Louis and it made me want to go back so much. When I lived there and made $11 an hour I had a lifestyle I could probably never afford in NYC. But of course, at this point only 2 of my good friends still live there, and one of them is married and the other is moving in with his girlfriend. It might be a disappointment to return.