Um, so yes, Joe returned from his big trip where he went around the world and drank lots of good tea and walked in urban areas and sat in coffeehouses and uh went walking around SF with me to coffeehouses and tea shops. We have our shared tastes.
Category: Dinah – preferences
Oddly, the cupboard door fell off this morning
No harm done. I opened the cupboard and the top hinge & top screw of the bottom hinge completely disengaged. I held it shut with my left hand, not wanting to strip the bottom screw hole, reached to the drawer with my right hand, pulled out my convertable screwdriver, swapped to a standard head, and unscrewed the screw all one-handed. Felt very studly about the whole maneuver, primarily because my kitchen drawer was pleasingly in order with the screwdriver right there where it should be.
at Golden Gate Antiques
Nice side-by-side
Lovely old bar at Golden Gate Antiques
Another nice piece in this style in the front window, but a bit more 50's in the decor
Alphabetizing therapy
When I'm stressed (yesterday was a crappy day; it's bad enough to have someone leap to unfounded conclusions, worse when they blog it as fact) I find it very soothing to put something in order. Since my life is actually pretty great right now and things are ticking over well at work, the CDs got the attention.
There's a big stack of soundtracks/cast recordings, compilations, jazz, and classical out of frame to the left.
These CDs now represent my real iTunes collection. The stuff I've wound up not liking – rating it lower & lower and then deleting it – is listed on lala.com and in a box in the living room ready to be shipped out when someone wants it.
Aptly brand-named skirt
Original price well over $200.
Even Halcyon wouldn't look good in this.
Green! GREEN! Man, I love the green hills of spring.
I like the rear view mirror image as well. This came out pretty well considering I hadn't even looked while I took it.
Rain & green grass in Sonoma/Marin
I love spring.
I love brussels sprouts.
habit?
No, really, I could stop any time.
(I do like that I now have a pair for every day of the week).
A tour of Dinah’s cube
Why do that? (NYPL online style guide to XHTML) Here's why. (Jeff Veen's The Business Value of Web Standards)
JJG and Peter Morville Information Architecture principles. S.R. Ranganathan quote "To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty"
(obscurely positioned where most do not see it: )
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw
I've had this quote up at work for at least the last two jobs.
New improved bedroom!
clean sheets & pillowcases, freshly made bed, drawers full of clean clothes.
Hooray!
On the left, The Cheap Pillow. Ikea. $7. And I like it better than the pricy one.
On the right, Joe says, "The Good Pillow". a.k.a. the $125 pillow. a.k.a. the After You've Spent Over $2K On A Bed You're Shell-Shocked Enough To Be A Sucker pillow.
