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I’m trying to improve my shoe collection. I am timid about shoes. They have to be comfortable and I get scared when they have wild colors or basically when they are any color but black. I bought some new shoes – black slides, open-toed, with a bit of a heel at Ann Taylor and wore them last week. I walked to the bank and dry-cleaners and had blisters on both feet. So the next day I switched to some black flats and walked downtown and felt like I was getting a blister on the bottom of my foot. You can see why I like the Birks so much — they’re ugly but comfortable. What I want to know is, is there a secret to breaking in shoes or does everyone go through this?

Earlier this year I got to see Concrete Blonde which made me happy. Then I started to think it’s been a long time since one of my other favorites: Bob Mould has come through town. Then I found out he’s going to be here this month. (I also see I’m way behind on my Bob Mould product purchases.) So then I was thinking, now if only The Replacements or Paul Westerberg would go on tour — that would be great. And then there’s this news: Replacements Mull Reunion and Paul is doing an in-store here in Portland. Bob and Paul in the same month – how cool is that?.

In other news, I just typed in a URL from memory and turns out my memory is incorrect because I got into some rasty porn site with about 100 pop-up windows that took over my whole computer. I thought I was going to have to pull the plug out of the wall to get out of that one. Now I’m probably going to get spam from hell forever.

I can’t remember where I saw this First Annual Keanu Awards — pretty funny. And while I’m talking about awards I’d just like to say that this was just about the least satisfying Oscar Ceremony ever — and it was WAY TOO LONG.

I sold my CRX on Sunday. I wrote up a story about it but somehow it disappeared into the blackblog and I’m not in the mood for resurrecting it at the moment. It found a very good home.

First of all, check out this tug boat getting pulled under a bridge. It’s a little slow loading — but completely worth it.

Yesterday we finally decided to put a second cable box downstairs and AT&T is having a special deal where you can get their super-deluxe-every single channel package at an amazing low price for 6 months and then they brought the second cable box and installed it for free. The AT&T people came over at about 8:20am and at first they didn’t even think they could do it without drilling concrete or something like that but eventually they found a way to do it (it took an hour and 1/2) and the finished scenario involves wires strung all over hellandgone but Bob can watch cable in the basement and that’s all that really matters.

So what’s the first thing we find to watch on the new cable service with everything? A documentary on the Sundance Channel about Linux and open source.

Last night I went to a — I don’t know what you call it — a product demonstration? It was for the release of Flash MX. Just look at these pages, obviously my webpage-making skills are primitive at best and I’d love to learn more about using all the Macromedia stuff but you know, only so much time and energy and I have some other creative things I spend my time on. There was a time when web technology was vaguely in my grasp, but those days are long gone and I spent much of the demo trying very hard to follow the presentation.

During the demo the guy showed all these new features and tools in this latest version and occasionally you’d hear murmurs through the crowd and once people broke into applause.

I told Bob it was like when he took me to a Phish concert. I could tell when something good was happening, but I didn’t really understand what it was.

Back from Vegas yesterday A fun time was had by all. I even came back with a few bucks in my wallet. I think I should get a prize for that. We’re weren’t totally camera crazy this trip but I think I can come up with enough to put up a few pages. Stay tuned.

I’m still tired and not in the mood for work. I want to sit around in front of the TV and drink hot chocolate.

argh. What a week. I’ve been busy at work and completely behind and then my car was blocked in this evening which resulted in a lot of personal drama although the story came out okay. I was able to find the blocked car owner and get the keys and get home only about 45 minutes later than usual. Except I am going to Las Vegas tomorrow and had some stuff to do but ended up deciding to screw it. I’ll get cash on my way to work and buy whatever I need or live without it.

I need to pack and we only have two sizes of bags: tiny and huge. I have opted for huge and will take about 400 outfits and every personal hygiene item known to man. While there, I plan to drink lots of refreshing adult beverages, buy fun stuff on credit and have a fabulous time getting into as much trouble as I can find.