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I'd prefer a nice social-democrat lesbian feminist in the White House (don't tell me *you* wouldn't prefer a little high profile dyke drama over invading some third-world country any day, too...)." -- misia 2003-10-13

The LJ-stats meme that supergee apparently started entirely by accident ("I must remember to use my powers for Good." -- Supergee) ... ( cut because it's meme-sheepage )

1: Earlier, after Googling the name of a person whose email address (from which he emailed me a day or two ago) seems to no longer exist, I decided to vanity-Google myself. Resulting impressions: Gee, a few more mailing lists now have web-accessible archives dating back to when I posted on them; and, Wow, there suddenly seems to be a lot of interest in ouds now, and a bunch of links to my web page about the oud for guitarists. Not as many as there are links to or (mostly unauthorized) copies of "The Chastity Belt", but way more than I expected. No wonder I've been getting email from beginning oudists in the past few months.

2: A bit more randomly, I encounted the truly awful, evil pun that marnanel made about Tim Berners-Lee.

While copying current balances and outstanding items to this year's spreadsheet, I got distracted poking at the spreadsheet where I recorded almost everything I spent over the course of 2003 (minus several weeks where a power failure and disk errors took out a chunk of data) ... not doing a proper analysis right now, just looking for interesting tidbits and wishing Microsoft Excel had an SQL interface.

I see that I spent (have records of having spent) $306 on music in 2003, not counting travel to/from rehearsals and gigs, meals on the road, etc.

• Blank cassettes: $5.91
• Batteries: $15.71
• Nails: $99.06 ($6.06 for Crazy Glue, the rest for nail salons and parking meters in front of nail salons)
• Strings: $51.91
• Stage Costume (socks to wear with my kilt, shoes to wear with kilt or tunic): $73.48
• Guitar pickup: $40.00
• WAMA membership: $20.00

The big missed opportunity of 2003: the photo exhibit that was supposed to happen in September but didn't because I couldn't afford to get large prints made (and matted/framed) for it. I don't know for sure that the show would've generated any sales, but the art director who liked my work said photo exhibits did well in that space, it only would have taken a couple of sales to pay for the cost of mounting the show, and with any luck the exposure would've led to shooting gigs and more shows. But I was never able to pull together the money to assemble the show. (Sort of like a exothermic reaction that never starts because the activation energy is never supplied.)