Electric Josh

Monday, June 24, 2002

Readers familiar with this space might notice its recent nine-day silence and observe that I've managed not to post anything about Fathers' Day, my birthday, the US's 0:1 loss to Germany in the World Cup quarterfinals, my recent return to being a soccer player, my wonderful conversation the other week with family friends about my grandparents in northern Indiana, nor my really excellent birthday dinner at Hammersley's up in the South End. The reason for this is related to K's and my recent tendency never to take a camera with us when we go anywhere: it's almost always nicer to simply enjoy nice days as they occur. Documenting nice days, I find, shortens them.

The downside is that five years down the road I'll find that there is no record anywhere of entire weeks that will, by then, have completely fallen out of my mind. #

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Got the laptop set up on the patio table out back at home, and there's even power (via extension cord). Must get wireless networking set up. Then I might even get a real machine with a longer battery life. Then I can be one of those people without jobs who just wander around and post things to the web at random and write software. #