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"Because believing in God should not make you dumb. Believing in divine power should not make you a blind lockstep jingoist zealot right-wing homophobe drone, bowing and kneeling and feeling unworthy and sinful and then changing the channel to ESPN2 and watching log rolling.

"Believing in your own divinity should, of course, make you radiate. And think. And squirm. And ponder and investigate and get calm and wonder and explore and lick and drink good wine and make love to any gender you like and allow that divine definition to shift and transform with time and self and breath. Simple, really. And also very, very messy. As it should be." -- Mark Morford

Tossing a few thoughts out of my brain and into the ether before I try to deliberately induce a "hyperfocus" state to finish up this project I'm working on ...

Yesterday Perrine caught a moth. I very much want to encourage this. But as usual, she wouldn't kill it. She played with it on the bed just as she would a mouse. The funny bit was when she let it go and looked where she expected it to run before realizing it was going to fly instead. She very quickly adapted though.

I finally figured out what the really odd bad smell in my kitchen was yesterday. I couldn't figure out why it smelled like rotting meat -- I'm a vegetarian, so there's not a lot of meat in my garbage (i.e. only when a guest brings something into the house, and even then, it's rare that any winds up in the trash). The answer: ( eww )

Despite my illness making it difficult to do things quickly or for too many hours a day, I'm good at writing specifications; I'm quite good at designing systems; I'm pretty good at coding; I'm good at doing stuff ... but wow, do I suck at estimating how many hours a job will take. muttermutterbadwordmuttergrumblebadword feh

But hey, I understand Cascading Style Sheets now. Still need a cheat-sheet, but I understand them. Took me long enough to get around to learning 'em.

The weather has gotten comfortable. I've always liked autumn, and it's started feeling autumnal. (Almost on cue, astronomically ... it did start feeling this way what, a week ago?, but it went away again and came back.) My house is finally cool enough to wear clothes in. Maybe I'll actually put something on. (It's not cool enough to need clothing yet.) Of course this does mean that cold enough to want to run the furnace is only a couple of months away, and if I haven't found some way to pay my heating oil bill from last winter by then, it could get interesting, but for now I'll just rejoice in the fact that my favourite season is here, and that it makes my skin feel awake.

Shonen Knife's Let's Knife and Led Zeppelin's fourth album are very good background music for applying a repetetive bunch of formatting to a medium-sized (30-40) pile of web pages against a deadline. The frenetic intensity goes well with the tempo of "Rock And Roll" and "Devil House".

Just in case any of y'all need music for such a task in the near future.