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Subject: Timesheets

Tell me about this week … the more dramatic, the better…

I have a sort of love/hate relationship with autumn. Good summers make depressing autumns, and I had a great summer. I expected Monday to be a fiercely fall day, so when I stepped out of work for lunch and it was 90 degrees, I felt at least a small measure of relief at having been spared the cold for a day. Summer never dies as long as it’s hot and humid. Took a deep breath—hot, humid.

Tuesday came and went. I could look out the window at Central Park and stare at the expanse of leaves: green, so far. Just green. Felt like summer, but it’s not summer. I sat back, tapped at the keys, caught myself thinking about apples. Is this what people in California do? Dream of apples?

I took the subway to work on Wednesday and Thursday; I typically ride my bike, but I thought it might be a good idea to acclimate to the train (wasn’t raining, no latent cold weather hostility, and I wanted to watch a movie on my phone). On both days, I stopped for coffee near my house. I like an iced Americano. Nobody was drinking anything iced. Got a foul look from the “barista”. Screw that.

Outside the coffee shop on Thursday was a dachshund with one brown and one blue eye, sitting amidst a few dry, yellow leaves. He just sat and stared.

Today I rode my bike. It was windy. The very tops of the trees in Central Park are pale green, turning paler yellow. It’s humid, but it’s fall.

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What kind of camera(s) do you own?

Well, well, well... I own a lot more than I use.

Functional, in use:

1. Canon 20D
2. Olympus Stylus Epic
   

1. Olympus D-600L
2. Canon S40
3. Canon Digital Rebel

1. Polaroid One Step
2. Polaroid i-Zone
   

Today at Achewood is Ray's flowchart.  One particular segment I love:

• IS IT BREAKFAST?
• EGGS B. AND A BLOODY, DOGG
• I AM AT A GAS STATION
• IS THE CASHIER HOT?
• IT'S SOME DUDE NAMED NAPIL
• HOW'S HE LOOKIN'
• HE IS UGLY
• HILARIOUS

Achewood is a perfect example of great writing made awesome by visual design. It just so happens that the great writer and the awesome visual designer are both Chris Onstad. Additional vote for greatness: Achewood had that skateboarding bulldog video just sitting in the footer well before anybody else picked up on it (I am looking at you, MySpace and Yahoo).

I like Philippe's flowchart.

On the A train this morning, from five feet away:

Bible says through Christ I can do all things! Including crack!

1. I am running, lost, through a Cleveland hotel to deliver James Brown's guitar to him onstage, mid-performance.
2. I am a fireman, stuffed into a booth at the back of a fire truck with a stack of shovels. I am in charge of burying burning embers at the scene.
3. I have finished reprogramming the Bible and am traveling to storefront churches to ask for comments. All of them tell me there's a problem with "line 19". I tell them, invariably, that I am aware of this, and that I will fix it. Soon.
   

  Psst, come here, I wanna tell you something. Closer. Closer. Closer still. I eat eyes.

Thank you, Stacey Nightmare.

Today's quote, courtesy of my unnamed, temporarily impoverished friend:

I can't even afford a crotch wig.