Posts Categorized: music, the internet, and life

What, me take time off?

I’m getting a week off work. Last chance to have fun before school starts. I might do some hiking or boogie boarding with Anne. Her partner Michael is moving in with her, and they’re doing well. My friends Arlene and Don are getting married very soon. And Christi and Brian are meeting the daily challenges… Read more »

To school or not to school

I’m still at Cruzio, going through computer classes like a snail around a racetrack. I’m studying networking and Linux, both very relevant to an employee of an Internet Service Provider. I had two skilled and delightful teachers this past semester, Jim Griffin and Mikki Adams. I’m taking the summer off from school though. Working full-time… Read more »

Bye bye, hippies and tofu pie

The Grandview Street farmhouse is no more. The owner finally got a permit to build condos. We had a reunion and told stories of our co-op days and cried and wished we could torch the place instead of watching it get torn down. The last garlic and lemons I carted away were delicious.

Small beginnings

I first put up this journal. I had been working in childcare – at the same job – for fifteen years and was physically exhausted. Pushed by my physical complaints, pulled by the fascination of computers, and supported lovingly by friends, family and counselors, I quit my childcare job. I found work at Cruzio, an… Read more »