Kissing in Manhattan * * * / * * * *

Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler

a nice set of interconnected short stories

SPOILERS AFTER CUT

my head is weird sometimes

out late ('til about 3-30) drinking and dancing for Karina's birthday and got home and my head was super buzzing and despite being tired couldn't sleep until about 8-30 / 9-00. I don't take illegal drugs, no red bull or coffee -- just my head buzzing, buzzing, buzzing.

belated pics from holiday in Dorset

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stars

ahh my new binoculars

stargazing at Polaris (i think), Mars and M31 Andromeda

and wow omg the Pleides are incredibly beautiful

but now I want to take a proper time exposure but i don't have a good enough camera and no way can i justify the expense

The Twilight Watch * * */ * * * *

The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

better than Day Watch but not as good as Night Watch
SPOILERS AFTER CUT

long sustain
ache and no rain
discord and insane hope
beer and dark bar bohemia
trombones and bass
piano flights to quiet lake

youth and smoking beards
cannabis requiem for remembered neverland
she didn't come
I hoped
I died
I smiled bleakly
Quiet lake take me home.

wow The Good Shepherd absolute genius

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne

relief computer #1 back up and running with a new chip set fan running at a comfortable 5800 rpm