Had lunch with an old friend today. He is shipping overseas soon and for a long while. I was not prepared for how much it would hurt, for how sad I would feel. Making plans to celebrate his return.

I found a book with witches and vampires and alchemy, set in Oxford. So, naturally, I’m up too late

I moved out of my house for a several months in a span from November to May. Here’s why: Conway Whole House Remodel. Apparently we’re weird. We remodeled our house for us, not for some unknown next owner.

Currently reading: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

I had forgotten how much I loved the elves, and missed Gandalf.

I never don’t love a favorite song, but my relationship to it changes.

Sometimes a song lights fireworks. Sometimes I remember the fireworks the song lit, fondly.

It’s an interesting thing, going through my CDs, disc by disc. Encountering the infatuations I have had, both in terms of artists and genres.

What I listened to, at what point in my life, is linked deeply to memory.

More and more I am deeply impressed with the iPad and its effectiveness even as a primary work device. However, some seemingly “normal” activities like printing .eml attachments from the Outlook app throws a wrench into the machinery. Two apps needed.

I was very happy with the way that Numbers handled the playlist export from Music. It inferred a delimited file and presented the contents formatted in a very easily understood fashion. It was super easy to copy the two columns I wanted to share, and Nova helped me make markdown fast.

1. Eternal Lover — Moonwater
2. Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue
3. They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass
4. Plateau — Orb
5. A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous
6. Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca
7. Anthropomorphic — Qubism
8. No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O.
9. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz
10. edit:one — DJ Iri
11. Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 — Mysteries of Science
12. #19 — Aphex Twin
13. Tranquility Base — Omicron
14. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
15. Expanding — Young American Primitive