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1. I had lunch at La Hacienda today. I have to admit it: their food sucks.

2. I went to the chiropractor again today. I think I’m addicted.

3. We’re totally out of firewood again, which would be fine except that it snowed this morning.

4. I love my iPod so much that if it wasn’t bad for it, I’d probably lick it.

5. All I want is more Buca Di Beppo food. I have no idea what I’m going to make for dinner.

Rudy, Don't Take Your Love to Town

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I just walked over to the 2nd Street Coffee Shop to buy a decaf latte because it’s ten in the morning and because I’m off caffeine.

I saw Rudy there, and he told me I looked good (I said, “Aw, thanks!”) and we talked about how stupid it is that there’s no manual way of rolling up an electric car window when its motor fails.

The most interesting thing about this exchange was not that we were in a coffee shop, nor that we were discussing the irritation of failed electrics, but that Rudy had a three-inch high scab on his forehead in the shape of an X.

Wow, that’s so Rudy.

French Lunch

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joe.jpgSo today my boyfriend Joe called me up for a lunch date. He’s a very good boyfriend that way – he maintains seperate relationships with me and Brett, and then built a whole ‘nother one for us as a couple when we got married. He’ll actually call one or the other of us – seperately – and ask us out to do things. Seperately! Most people tend to treat couples as couples, and generally only call to see both of you.

I love Joe. (This picture is old. It’s the first one I found of him in the gallery. He didn’t have quite as much hair at lunch today. Just so you know.)

Anyway, I picked him up at 1-Stop at twelve-thirty. (I gave my Prince Live at the Aladin DVD to the ever-gorgeous Mr J who ‘s gonna extract it into MP3s for me BECAUSE HE ROCKS.*) We went to Petit Paris and had some double-cream vegetable soup and spinach crepes and LARGE GLASSES OF WINE. It was freakin’ awesome and I had oodles of fun. The proprietess is adorable and beautiful, the food was yummy, the wine was brilliant, Joe made me laugh, and the chef was an adorable blue-eyed brunet boy with BRACES. So cute!

Lunch with Joe. You’re so jealous.

(*Prince. LIVE. On the iPod. Yesss.)

The Podcasts I'm Carrying

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So I installed iPodder on CYBERACD (a fairly idle server here at LISCO that Bucket gave me pcAnywhere access to), added a few feeds to it, and synched the results onto my mini.

I’ve now got about a hundred minutes worth of podcasting in my pocket. Gawd I hope they don’t all suck.

I surfed Podcasting News, Podcast Alley, and podcast.net for stuff to listen to, and I can’t believe how many husband/wife shows there are. It’s like an epidemic. I asked Buzz, “Who the hell wants to listen to married couples talk? Is there some huge market of unmarried, desperate-to-BE-married people out there with iPods who download this stuff?” (Then later, still surfing for ‘casts, I mumbled, “With my luck I’ll become totally facinated by married podcast shows, turn into someone who listens to nothing but married couple podcasts. That’ll totally suck.”)

Anyone, anywhere, with a tiny bit of equipment and a DSL can ‘produce’ their own ‘shows’ and put them on the Internet. It’s exciting, yes. But also a little bit creepy – reading something by a stranger is one thing, but HEARING it (do I really want to listen to some random married couple cooking in their kitchen?!) is altogether more intimate.

So tonight, as I drive home, I’m gonna check out some podcasts. And again, I sure hope it doesn’t suck.