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11:09 pm
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Wow. Season premiere of Hoarders.
( Spoilers. )
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10:14 pm
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 354 of 1751 pages total.
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Read Act III.5 and IV.1 of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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09:18 pm
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 352 of 1751 pages total.
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Read Act III.3 and 4 of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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10:18 pm
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The problem with having esoteric interests . . .
. . . is that it can be really expensive!
To wit, ever since 1996 when I took a course about the Soviet Union, I've been fascinated with this topic. The good news is that you can get a lot of books about this era and various figures pretty cheaply. For example, I ordered a nice copy of Adam Ulam's biography of Stalin for only 70 cents plus 3.99 shipping. However, if you want a more specialized monograph, you might have to pay some moolah.
There's this more minor figure in Soviet politics during the Lenin and Stalin eras by the name of Karl Radek who I've come across a number of times in biographies of Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky. Radek was a bit of wag, who was apparently the source of a lot of jokes about Lenin and Stalin, among others. I was able to get a fairly inexpensive copy of biography about him published in 1970, which I'm currently reading. I just found another biography from 1988, but the used copies I've seen for sale start at $150! So it dawned on me that I could probably get it via interlibrary loan. I can! So hopefully it'll be delivered soon to me at my local library.
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09:37 pm
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 349 of 1751 pages total.
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Yesterday I read Act II.2-3 and today Act III.1-2 of The Merry Wives of Windsor. As usual, Falstaff rules!
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12:58 pm
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A small victory for a computer-illiterate idiot like me.
I copied a number of photo files over to my memory card so I could print them out. However, I realized that I didn't need some of them so I tried to drag them over to trash . . . and was told I couldn't do that because they were locked! I finally called up Help and typed 'locked files' into it. It explained how to go to Finder and unlock those files. What's really weird is that I don't know how they got locked in the first place.
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07:36 pm
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 342 of 1751 pages total.
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Finished Act II.1 of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Oh, yeah: this play features good ol' Falstaff. Apparently Shakespeare wrote it because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see him again.
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11:15 am
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Kids friending their parents on Facebook . . .
. . . leads to so much comedy: http://www.lamebook.com/well-composed-dad
Also: http://www.lamebook.com/goodnight-sleep-white
And: http://www.lamebook.com/high-jacked
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12:04 am
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Family Photos 1970, 1977-1980.
Today I scanned photos of our family that had been in my maternal grandmother's collection. This included pictures taken at the party held in honor of my grandparents' 50th anniversary. I'm glad these photos exist, but I wish I would have found them sooner because--you guessed it--I have to go back and insert them into the albums. This means that I have to rearrange yet again a ton of photos if I want them to be in the right order.
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11:56 pm
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 340 of 1751 pages total.
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Finished Act II.2-4 of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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11:28 am
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 336 of 1751 pages total.
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Yesterday I finished Act I.1 of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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10:45 am
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Where's my whipping stick . . .?
. . . so that I can use it on whoever began that saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
I'm home today, watching TV. I just saw this guest on the news say this. It's like one person came up with this saying, then recently all these people have been aping it over and over.
Maybe a person is doing the same thing over and over just because they're a dumbass. Please stop using this saying, talking heads. Or at least come up with a new one.
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08:34 am
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High School Reunion short story revision: on page 44 of 44 pages total.
Although I got through to the last page of this story (short novella?), it doesn't necessarily follow that this revision is done. It's certainly is a hell of lot closer to its final form. At the very least, I think I'm going to have to read through it one more time.
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09:13 pm
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"No more!"
It's probably not a good sign when you wake up like I did today, and immediately think, "Bleh!" when contemplating the day and the rest of the week ahead!
There's a famous story how Goethe's last words were "More light", which others have taken as a metaphor for his life. One of my German professors was a bit of a wag. He asked me if I knew the story about him saying "Mehr Licht". Then with a grin he told me what he actually said was this and wrote it down: "Mehr Nicht!" I said, "More not?!", translating the words literally. My professor said, "No more!" and laughed.
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07:25 pm
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Obama and Jintao's Press Conference.
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12:44 am
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 323 of 1751 pages total.
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Finished Act V.1 and this completes The Merchant of Venice.
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10:04 am
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Family Photos 1979: 73. 1980: 1-16.
I found a photo that I guessed might be from 1979, taken by neighbors who gave us the photo years later. I scanned all the photos we had for 1980.
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01:39 am
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Pelican Shakespeare: on page 320 of 1751 pages total.
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Finished Act IV.1 and 2 of The Merchant of Venice. Just Act V.1 left to read.
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09:45 am
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Family Photos 1979: 55-72.
This completes 1979 and the first twenty years of family photos.
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07:57 am
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Um . . .
Man Arrested After Calling 911 for Sex
Talk about a booty call!
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