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wi-fiNALLY

not pooping

I’m now certain there’s not much Kevin can’t accomplish.

After two weeks of main-ISP blackout from the work-move fiasco, our broadband has been re-established.

The whole house, as originally conceived, is now wireless allowing me to to go anywhere inside or out.

The icecapades which is our front yard and deck has kept me from testing just what kind of range I can get.

I suppose I’m really sounding like an old fart carrying on about airport technology so much.. But until I can buy my very own heliodisplay, I think this is about the coolest damn consumer-available technology out there. (that and Listerine Stripsâ„¢).

I’m giddy… not blogging.

the count

gift wrap or liberal dogma

Shortly after my morning coffee and non-blog ritual, the boys got up and gave me my birthday present. This year’s present was electrified. (They’re so damn clever).

Opened my present to find:
– DVD: Best of Show
– DVD: Matrix v.2.0 (MUCH better the second time through and after playing the video game and digesting Anamatrix).
– Receipt slip (was on back order but will arrive eventually): Corporate US Flag

Other spoils of the day:
(dad) – Dual infrared spotlights (for playing with the nightshot feature of my camera).

(mom) – Dinner and calligraphy pens.

It’s interesting to point out I received:

From friends:
3 telephone calls.
4 electronic greetings.
(total 7 people)

From strangers (LJ users):
27 greetings
1 greeting card
(total 28 people)

There’s a commentary to be had here I’m just not exactly sure what. Any outcome of the discussion will probably deepen my blog-denial.

hair

hair priorities over the decades

Alright – so we’re back in St. Louis finally… The trip back was a long ass kicker – taking nearly two hours to break free from Chicago rush-hour.

Took the following day to relax, do laundry and swim through the many iPhoto dumps made during the excursion.

While anally labeling and time stamping the images I remembered an older archive scan from yesterdecade. I had promised Brenna (previous non-entry) that I wouldn’t share her stogie pic with the world, (for if I was maintaining a blog – then fair turnabout would be posting an equally embarrassing photo of Tony). The one I have on hand – drags me right into that ball of shame…

“Dr. Tony” and I were best mates back in those days. I can still remember the adolescent sense of freedom when we’d drive for countless hours, nowhere, with the windows rolled down in his mother’s flesh colored Doge Aspen. Aside from the moving landscape, the only sensory stimulation was the blaring Duran Duran B-Sides and the stench our combined overuse of Beneton Colorsâ„¢. (And how did only I wind up being the fag?)

T’s new woman has definitely put him through a type of finishing school – I assume the kind you get when you shack up with a dame with real class… but funny – every once in a while little “Tonyisms” still surface. We’re all really the same people we were in high school – just polished up some.

Oh yeah – and with a significantly less pronounced focus on hair.