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If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? and why have you not told them yet?

i would regret not telling my loved ones good bye and how much i love them. the only reason i have not let told them i love them is that i just woke up. but that will be fixed soon. ~_^ i try to have as few regrets as i can in my life. and thankfully one just recently fixed it's self and i got back in touch with an old friend i had been missing.

Thing One: I received confirmation that my contract ends the first week in January, thanks to budget. Which means I'll be job-hunting again. Anyone looking for a tech editor?

Thing Two: Work is busy. Here, have a photo. Look at the cute hat the lovely folks at Gloomth made for me!

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Seems my brother's all infatuated with making videos. Here's another featuring his Shalako Shala Sport Buggy:

Yes, Spanky's home and wearing, as someone so pithily termed it, the Catellite Dish. He'll have to wear it for two weeks and receive medication every twelve hours, not to mention the medicating of the site itself. That should be fun.

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Poor puss.

I know very little about Sally Bercow, but very well done to her for unashamedly admitting to having had casual sex in her 20s. She says that her drinking got out of control, but she doesn't express any regret for having one-night stands:

She also had a number of "flings", saying: "It's true that I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I'd think, 'Why not?' and we'd go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end. It was all very ladette – work hard, play hard."

I like this particularly because female promiscuity is often treated with disgust - a guy at my work said the other day, in a horrified tone of voice, that he knew "some girls who'll spread their legs for anyone".

Here's a copy of my monthly newsletter.
It's a little later than usual. My travel schedule got the better of me.
Let me know if you have any questions, ok?

MIDORI'S SENSUALIST NEWSLETTER December 3, 2009

1. Moving at Light Speed in Search of Stillness

2. Registration open for January Rope Bondage Dojo, San Francisco

3. Bang 4 The Buck Women’s Party returns to Seattle!

4. December classes/events (Ottawa, Tokyo)

5. Preview January (Oakland, San Rafael, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, LA, Seattle)

6. Next Forte Femme. March 19 – 21, 2010 San Francisco

7. On-line Haunts: Twitter, FetLife, Yahoo, Tribe, FaceBook, etc.

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The Howard House show opening was so wonderful. The art is beautifully hung on the walls of the gallery, with a looming Friends of the Nib Nibsquid logo adhered to the back wall towering over the procedings. I circulated like a reed on a whirlpool through the crowd, sometimes stopping to draw at the table, sometimes stopping to schmooze with the artist and patron crowd. I saw some people I haven't seen in months. We capped the evening with a chinese repast, joshing and munching around a round table like a cabal of soigne knights.

I finally got around to listening to the new Young Fresh Fellows cd, and I don't advise it for the newbie, but for your seasoned YFF fan there are treats. The sarcastic but peppy "Go Blue Angels Go" pays tribute to the team of fighters which makes our lives in this Seattle town more miserable every Seafair, "a triangle made of hornets". "Don't go in the lake! The lake is full of hydroplanes!" they sing. There are a couple of fiery Kurt Bloch songs -- I wish I kept up better with his work, I don't listen to Thee Sgt Major III as much as I should -- and a couple of Chris & Tad originals, but the balance of the thing is comprised of a lot of Scott's songs that aren't as doomy as his Minus 5 stuff. I think that's where his heart is mostly these days.
The album's closer is "The Ballad of the Bootleg", a nifty little song about a difficult time in the band's time, when they were coming off a bad tour following an indifferent album ("Totally Lost", not their best work -- they were under pressure to break big from a new label, who short-shifted them to promote Thin White Rope instead); one Fellow quit, and they discussed breaking up the band. Solution: book three days at Egg and play whatever came into their fool heads, bring all their friends into the studio to play along, and make some noise. Result: the bootleg ("Beans and Tolerance" or "Simply Wonderful .. Wonderfully Simple", depending on what you read), pressed on 12" and sold at University Coffee and elsewhere in a plain sleeve. It contains some of their rockin'est stuff: the fun and brainless "Rock & Roll Guitars" ("When they play those rock guitars, I start jumpin' around like a man from Mars"), a Nino Ferrente cover sung by Tad and Joey Kline, a ripping "Go Gorilla Time" sung by Jim, and a moving song about Pappy the Clown (a drunken alter ego who would show up when Chris Mars of the Replacements would have too much of something before a show) that Scott, in the new song, avers that he has no memory of singing. (Rumor is that Paul Westerberg actually sang the track.) Some of the tracks wound up on the Fellows' tape-only "GaG Fa" collection, including the "Little Brown Jug Twist" with which they closed the session by playing to the death -- you can hear the tape running out at the end. Some of the tracks wound up comprising "The Breakup Box", a sextet of 6" singles released on different labels and collected in a Tad-designed box, which signalled the addition of Kurt to the band as the new fourth Fellow. From there they could only go on: Time moves forward by staying in place.

"I went bob sleighing last night. Killed 25 Bobs" - via Jo Morris :)

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Foundations Revealed has been featured today on a blog celebrating independent artists.

Such Cool Stuff did a lovely interview with me earlier this year and they've been wonderful about changing the date it got published - we originally wanted FR to go live in June but it was much more sensible, in the end, to go with October, and they've squeezed us in as their December offering. Enjoy!

Incidentally, if anyone can come up with either a better resolution picture of the bunnies/hares poster, or a similar picture so I can re-create it, I'd be grateful.

And if you know of any other safer-sex posters that are aimed solely at bisexuals, I'd love links.

• 13:33 OMG, you know what's awesome: Finding that Miller's Crossing is on, switching to it, and it's right at the start of the best scene. :) #
• 14:46 Just heard rumor of WotC layoffs. Anyone confirm/deny? (And: This -is- a year with a December in it, so chances are high anyway, but still.) #
• 14:53 @Princess_Holly Between that and SD? Urm. Your eyes are broken! #
• 15:20 @Princess_Holly The only remaining option: You gots the Devil in you! May I suggest exorcism, or perhaps a cupcake w/ too much frosting. :) #
• 15:27 Why is it so dark
  all of the sudden? Oh, right. Pacific Northwest. Soon enough though I'll come to resent the horrifically constant sun. #
• 15:36 @pvponline What!? What happened? Eek! #
• 15:39 The Wallgreens living snowman is an abomination. Kill it! Kiiil it! #
• 17:22 @LaurenBarnholdt It's SARS! #
• 17:51 Hee hee. Just heard FOX News referred to as Clusterfox. #
• 20:28 Is it wrong to play CivRev on my iPhone while I'm on a flight path in #WoW? No. No, it is not. :) #
• 20:47 Watching tonight's Bones, which is lifted almost in toto from the movie Fistful of Quarters. Lame. Also: It's sponsored by Avatar, clearly. #
• 20:47 @Princess_Holly Gah! Sorry to hear! :( #

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I've been very busy at work.

Remember the controlled vocabulary project? Well, I'm back on, and we're down to 27,980 - this means I'm close to being a third of the way to done.

Of course, I'm only a third of the way done. And I'm working really hard on it. Did 459 terms today alone.

In other news, I've gone over to the dark side. Or rather the Blu-Ray side. I had a minor heart attack when my refurbed player arrived with the little door broken. It's my Door Busted special. But other than that, it plays great. Still trying to work out all the bells and whistles.

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• 11:23 Overheard in the office: I hate that rainbow wheel of doom. It haunts me. It is a ho-bag. #

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