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Monthly Archives: February 2004

March Calendar

I made another printable calendar for March. The files are 143 kb PDFs. To read them you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader. I’m sure you already have it. In US letter size and everyone else’s A4 format.

From the Stacks

As I settled into my seat, a man at one of the genealogy tables looked over at me quizzically. I nodded a hello back at him, but he didn’t look familiar.

“The rain falls down without my help I’m afraid”

Someone with a Wisconsin phone number just called my cellphone and serenaded me with Happy Birthday to Dan. He seemed disappointed after I convinced him that it wasn’t my birthday and my name wasn’t Dan, but I got a kick out of it.

Sun Day

Swap the heavy jacket for something lighter. (But keep that heavy one within reach.) It looks like spring.

Birds Redux

The goose was sold today, he was the last taxidermied bird left in the store after an ’80s evening soap opera star bought up the other remaining birds. The supply of ceramic chickens has slowly been selling off. But earlier this week, Samantha’s boss brought her pet bird to live at the store. [...]

The Walk to the Grocery Store

Another batch of photos

Recycle

These are some of the things I noticed yesterday when I loaded up my building’s recycling bins and hauled them out to the curb: cardboard boxes for outdated household appliances printed with sharp angular letters in aesthetic schemes that might be unreproducable with modern printing technology, the box for a tranistor radio kit with a [...]

Smith Tower

from Smith Tower

Lunch

a comic strip

Crazy Chicks

In winter 1997, several of my coworkers and I worked for a month at Amazon’s Delaware warehouse. At the end of our first day there, Glenn and I were waiting in the break room, as the rest of the Seattle group was finishing up before heading back to the hotel. A local named [...]