Archive for June, 2005

the best, the best, the best day

Monday, June 27th, 2005

The book of love is long and boring / No one can lift the damn thing
It’s full of charts and facts and figures / and instructions for dancing
but I / I love it when you read to me and you / you can read me anything

The book of love has music in it / In [...]

rain and spreadsheets

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Not a great night’s sleep. Started raining early this morning, and Kate jumped out of bed to close all the windows. Then I jumped up to close the car windows (which, once I went outside wearing only underwear and some car keys, I discovered were already closed). Then up at 6 for [...]

Bowties and 2×4s

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Woke this morning out of a dream in which I was walking around a construction site with Tucker Carlson talking about the current state of the conservative philosophy in America right now. Apparently after leaving Crossfire, the construction job was the only one he could get, so we meandered long hallways of stacked plywood [...]

Things not to do

Monday, June 20th, 2005

When one has spent months getting all spreadsheet-happy about the wedding, and one has 5 worksheets of various sizes and descriptions, and one is feeling very smug about the clever ways in which one used conditional formatting to make pretty colored columns showing how many adults are eating from which category and how many children, [...]

Counting down

Monday, June 20th, 2005

It’s Monday morning. Kate and I cleaned up the house this weekend and did various prep things for the wedding, to wit:

Cleaned, straightened, rearranged the living room furniture so we could practice dancing
Practiced dancing to Our Song and freaked ourselves right out by going all deer-in-headlights midway through. The first dance is where [...]