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upgraded to MT-2.661 so i could use mt-blacklist. had a hell of a time googling up MT-2.661-upgrade.tar.gz but then i found it. installed mt-blacklist and de-spammed all of dm (in addition to cis)
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ok redid my cellphone mt email thing:
if ($author && $author->email) {
my %head = ( To => $author->email,
From => $comment->email || $author->email,
Subject =>
'Dm Nw Cmnt');
my $charset = $app->{cfg}->PublishCharset || 'iso-8859-1';
$head{'Content-Type'} = qq(text/plain; charset="$charset");
my $body = $app->translate(
$app->translate('Nm:') . ' ' . $comment->author . "\n" .
$app->translate('Cmnts:') . $comment->text . "\n\n" .
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drugs....ugh.
home>awake @ 4a>jamba juice (24oz raspberry + immunity)>safeway(safeway brand max strength sudafed)>work @ 6:45a>ugh, ugh, ugh>lunch>ugh, $12MM bid, ugh ugh>home>ern bought a ton of groceries and medications and sicky stuff and laid me out a little sick bed just like yesterday. she also rented bubba hotep and igby goes down (think the catcher in the rye + the fuck up)>ate me some soup, drank me some tea, horsed down lots of meds and watched movies. ern's lab was canceled so we got to hang out for a few hours which is a treat for us in the middle of the week.>ern goes to lecture>p3 goes to blehsville.>horsed down benedryl + nyquil. if i wake up at four, i'll do it again. if i feel like this tomorrow, i'm calling in sick. ... or at least going in late.
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ern just got home and thinks that maybe a full cap of nyquil + 2 pills of benedryl is over doing it. i told her to roll me over if i start choking on my tongue.
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perked up a bit after more tea + food so i drew for a while and completely destroyed what i drew this weekend.
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slept in relatively late. the dogs are a small noisy herd of gimme gimme, so only so much sleeping can be done once dawn approaches. managed to feed and potty them then boot them outside without waking ern. woke her up nicely, then we made our traditional sunday morning pancakes. sofie doesnt have dry measures that i could find, so i eyeballed the bisquick. i added more milk then normal and little bit of oil, trying to make them nice and thin, almost crepey. they came out awesome, we ate them with jam and whipped cream. yum. chores with intermittent lazing, then it was all of a sudden 3. we headed in to calistoga for some lunch, and being tha tit was pretty hot we got some ice cream. back to sofies, finished with chores and left. but i forgot to feed the dogs, so i reveresed up the driveway and fed them. then home! got the car washed (sofie's drive is unpaved and long) i couldnt even see out the back window, only headlights. picked up 2 movies. 6ft under season 2 disk 3 (whoops, exchanged) and FLCL fooly cooly foolie cooli furi kura, which is absurd. i only made it through 2 episodes but it is a fast mix of inanity and insanity. so many neat drawing tricks, and apeing of many different styles of drawing. fuel for the MDI fire. worth a rent.
crit?: 2woke up @ 5:30 to drive ern to her carpool/dropoff point. her marathon training is in benecia today. after that i went back to sofie's and was awake so i made myself a curious omelette and a large pot of espresso. my omelette hopes ended in a sort of large flat scrambled egg with stuff inside of it. but that didnt stop the draw. drew all morning, cropped etc. i brought all my pens but none of my gesso so i have to work on it more when i get home. picked ern up around noon and we went to tj's for dinner mixin's and milk for the dogs. back up to sofies where we lazed about all day. i did the watering and chores and such while ern did the cookin'. came in and helped her out a little bit. then we ate. after dinner it was cleanup, laze, then time for the sauna. sauna'd our poor little pores to death then made our way back to the jacuzzi. then for bed.
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home>work>lunch>home>sofie's for instructions on housesitting>
small world =
sofie's friend used to live in my house, and i went to high school and college with the girl who bought the house two doors down from us.
home>finished watching the new texas chainsaw massacre. bleh.>saw ern for 20mins or so when she came home>bed.
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woke early>tea, cereal, paper, betty>pete shows up, we head to the city.
by way of
Berkeley>
1. The art store - 3 chartpak markers, 1 prismacolor colorless blender, 1 pack of small disposable brushes.
2. Utrect - small thingy of gesso
3. Amsterdam art
4. East Bay Vivarium - very cool animals here, poisonous, large, scaly. got really jazzed up for drawing looking at them.
SF>
1. Pens and needles - small comic book by jordan crane, free zine.
2. Wendy's - #4 with fruit punch.
3. Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts - "Beautiful losers" show. very nice.
4. I'm really ready to go now.
5. Japan Town - tried to find seanthesean's show but couldn't, found an expired japanese foodstore.
6. Old abandoned marine hospital in the presidio. - Looked at graffiti, found a screwdriver.
7. Petaluma Yard - Looked at graffiti.
8. Petaluma Skate Park - Looked at graffiti, my drawings had mostly faded away. which is better than being buffed i suppose. one drawing was sitll there.
8. home>
girl had ordered pizza and rented movies. i called when we left the city the first and second times, but the detours kept a comin' so her plan to have hot pizza and such waiting when i got hom ewas foiled. by the time i got home i was having a hard time breathing from being all stressy in the city so the evening was headed for shotsville. watched charlie's angels 2 and ate pizza and drank sake. got to hang out with ern for the 2nd time in the week. (alone that is) first being while we waited for her dad to arrive at dinner on friday. next weekend i'm stabbing anyone who gets between her and i with my new/used screwdriver.
wake>studio for breaky/news/drawing>errands>city>japantown>copics? no, tomorrow.>dinner>drove ern's dad to SFO>home>bleh>bed.
crit?: 0home>jambajuice>work>contract revisions, workstation build>lunch>
S O L V A Y click "here" oh and then also click "there"
work>more contract revisions>home>dinner @ citti>ern's dad visit.>bed...
didnt hardly get to see ern this week with her schooling and such, then the our time was cut short visiting. :/
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i got my first Ted Jesus Christ GOD spam! woo read the whole thing here
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woke up ass early. the sun was starting to come up, but i wasnt interested in getting up just yet. i laid there a while, until the urge to use the potty overcame my urge to use the sleeping bag. i quietly got up and around, and emerged from the tent slit to find derek and colleen and ryan already up. i stumbled my groggy self over to them for greets, then made my way potty-side. on the way back, colleen already had a cup of coffee waiting for me, so i took it and a washcloth back to the tent. after rousing the girl, we both came back out and set to the dry cereal and coffee. another community style meal was had, this time centered around 4 pounds of bacon, with people filtering out of their tents gradually.
the boat camp, which was seperate from our camp, came over to our beach and rallied for water skiiers not long after breakfast. i hadnt been water skiing in a long time so i quickly suited up and ern and i made for the beach. popping back up on skis was just like riding a bike. it felt so good to ski again and i didnt have any problems with a nice run after the one required crash. we had a boatful, 8, and 7 skiiers so we were out on the lake for a good long while. almost too long, actually. the camp needed to be cleared out by noon and we didnt hit shore till 11:30 or so. it didnt take much effort to break up camp with that many people, so we were able to all clear out just as other parties were descending on the prime camping spaces. since it was only noon and a perfect sunny day, we headed for the day use area of lake mendocino and set up camp underneath a big shady tree. eventually anarchy dave and jay muscled the pbr keg down from derek's $300 truck and someone else grabbed a cooler with other drinks. the $1 floatie toys were out in force. i think we had 8 of them going at once, so we formed a ncie little floatilla. i didnt get burned too bad yesterday and today but the tubing relaly wore my ass out. after 4 hours or so, we all were pretty sunned out so we started packing up to head back to santa rosa. the drive back didnt take very long at all. i had left my glasses in a pouch in our tent, so when we got home i expected to find a mangled bit of wire and lenses. surprisingly, my glasses were like new, despite being folded and crammed with the tent into the tiny nylon bag. ern and i drove the equipment back over to my parent's house and ended up staying for dinner. once we got home we watched "a happy surprise" then fell asleep early.
i woke up early, a little after ern. she's running 10miles in napa for her marathon training (donatedonatedonate). I showered then scrambled over to parents and picked up camping gear. derek and liz are having their first anniversary campout at lake mendocino this weekend so we needed supplies. after i raided their gear, i picked up the necessary sundires, then headed home and packed up for 2 days. i was just settling down for a nap to slow my headache when ern got home, so we finished getting things ready and headed out the door a short while later. the drive to lake mendocino was nice and short. despite leaving later due to ern's running and packing, we managed to get there around the same time as everyone else. after we set up our camp, we all headed down to the lake for gasoline and beer fueled fun. derek had his 2 jet skis (550cc & 650cc) and sadie brought her dad's powerboat. we went out and had a lot of fun tubing around then jet skiiing, but i have some massive bruises and my whole body is sore now. all of my non-computer muscles got used pretty hard, but it's a good kind of sore.
After water fun, it started to get dark so we all began cooking dinner and drinking beer. derek brought 1 keg of pbr and 2 pony kegs; coastal fog amber ale and some pear cider. after the community dinner we had a good time drinking, playing games and talking while batting at the bugs. the pbr i had been drinking all afternoon wasnt settling so well so i switched to water. between the sun and the fun i sweated out any buzz i would have had so i was sober for the day, despite the sheer volume of alcohol that was available in addition to the kegs. ern got tired around 10:30 or 11, so i put her to bed. i was tired and sore and thought i'd sit up a minute and talk with the remaining fire group, but instead i wandered down to the beach where the majority of people were "listening" to neil give a stargazing guide. the astronomy lesson was neat despite the interruptions, which neil was a good sport about, so i stayed down at the beach for an hour or two. once interested had fully waned, we all wandered back up to the fire. more of the group splintered off and it ended up being myself, brook, janeen, ryan (asleep in a chair), jay, neil, caitlin and kendra around the fire. did i mention 20 + people were there? we talked until the wee hours, brook and janeen had some interesting, illuminating things to say and jay and neil had plenty of stories to tell. eventually, i got too tired to stay up so i wandered my way towards the tent. i didnt have an instrument of time with me, so i can only assume it was really effin' late. kendra, neil, brook and jay stayed up and talked the fire dead. ern woke up to let me know that my side of the air mattress was flat. this wasnt a problem though, as we had brought 5 of them, and pumped up three. i swapped in a good one and we talked for a while after that, until we both fell asleep.
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...also, the drawing above is from last night drawing with shawn @ 3rd st aleworks.
worked my ass off getting prints ready for jon's boutique. i'm selling a small assortment (10 or so) images printed @5x7 with archival ink on archival paper, in nice little mylar bags. It requires a lot of work though. the opportunity is ideal so im trying to make this thing really hum. drew something neat tonight, i'm not done with it though. i dont usually have ideas for drawings, but after looking at carson ellis' site a weird little ditty popped into my head. if i finish it and it looks good i'll feed it to the computer.
crit?: 0what a great day today was. We went grocery shoppping and picked up a lot of fruit and some fixin's for dinner. then i helped ern study for her big microbiology test tomorrow. it was warm and we were wanting to sit out in the firepit so beer was required. the local minimart didnt have pbr so i introduced ern to "natty ice." which is, if you dont know, the high alcohol budweiser swill. shawn bailed on drawing night, but pete still made it. la_senso bailed as well pete brought over his homemade cider and we all had a pint of that. he figured out that it was 15%al/vol which got us all nice and toasty. drawing + talking until late, then pete got a-talking-to by the neighbor. something about fireworks + dry open field + please stop. i'm not really sure i was out of sight.
crit?: 1woke up, had a bunch of errands to do before 4th bbq. ern made apple pie (i helped) and we went to bbq thing. wasnt feeling the bbq thing too much so we left for home. we watched "bad santa" then took a walk around the neighborhood then for bed.
crit?: 0so sawyer's thing hasnt really netted any response yet, but look at this! out of the blue! the petaluma argus courier runs a story featuring a picture of the art that pete, shawn and i did on the wall @ the phoenix. article with photo is here go CIS!
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