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journal - 1999
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1999-0217 - wed
"The Onion"

1999-0218 - thu
Socks in the dryer

1999-0219 - fri
Free din din

1999-0220 - sat
Sensory overload

1999-0221 - sun
Cocooning

1999-0222-mon
Nazis in the mist

1999-0224 - wed
Overtired

1999-0227 - sat
Lun-Din?

1999-0228 - sun
"Have you come here to play Jesus ..."

1999-0302 - tue
"A dark and stormy night"

1999-0303 - wed
I don't remember anything

1999-0305 - fri
Thore Soat

1999-0306 - sat
Thore Soat II

1999-0308 - mon
The nature of journals; how to get rich quick

1999-0309 - tue
Quite evening

1999-0310 - wed
A pox on lap tops that freeze!!!!

1999-0312 - fri
Wet

1999-0313 - sat
Son of wet

1999-0314 - sun
"Cogito Ergo Sum?"

1999-0316 - tue
Reconciliation

1999-0318 - thu
A murder of crows

1999-0323 - tue
An encounter with a cow

1999-0328 - sun
The Neptune

1999-0330 - tue
Yuuuuucccckkkkk!

1999-0403 - sat
The unpleasantness of the week that was

1999-0407 - wed
Industrial surf

1999-0409 - fri
Hot

1999-0412 - mon
"Down to the sea"

1999-0422 - thu
"Death in the afternoon"

1999-0427 - tue
"The iron chains of memory"

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1999-0518 - tue
Where Have I Been?

1999-0519 - wed
"Kinky Boots"

1999-0523 - sun
Frankie and Annette

1999-0530 - sun
"Why do I have to have a title? Who dreamed up this title business anyway?"

1999-0531 - mon
(For Memorial Day) "La Colombe"

june
Alas, no entries for June. Momsy had open-heart surgery and was in the hospital for three weeks. I was trying to deal with her house, my house, five cats, visit her in the hospital, work and other assorted tasks. Much to my regret, there were no entries.

1999-0722 - thu
Back?

august
Goodness. No entries for August. What was my problem? Did this year have an August? I don't remember it.

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1999-0906 - mon
Labor-less Day

1999-0907 - tue
A muggy day

1999-0909 - thu
Son of muggy day

1999-0910 - fri
Light and shadows

1999-0911 - sat
Uneventful

1999-0912 - sun
Even more uneventful than yesterday

1999-0913 - mon
What a day!

1999-0914 - tue
Visit from the past; Flags flying

1999-0915 - wed
Hint of Autumn; Car Repairs; Journals Read

1999-0916 - thu
Streaming Media; Animated Graphic Problem; Laundry; "Farscape"

1999-0919 - sun
Pet Sitting; Petsmart; dinner, AOL

1999-0920 - mon
Fog; GaGa; bills; net addict; Windsor

1999-0924 - fri
Triage

1999-0926 - sun
Turing

1999-0928 - tue
Tired and wired

1999-0930 - thu
Japanese Din Din; Rage against the "mavens" of the software industry

1999-1001 - fri
G2; car; altercation; cat food

1999-1004 - mon
Netscape 4.7; lunch and being an interloper ; "fullsoft.dll"; "Twelve Monkeys" and time-travel movies; sinus infection and Biaxin; non-autumn; reading other journals and wondering about the benign indifference of the universe

1999-1005 - tue
"Industrial Surf"

1999-1006 - wed
Laundry and the very dapper guy; feeling terrible; WB; brain overreacting to stimuli; zemblanity

1999-1007 - thu
Rain; temporal disorientation visitor from Kiev; the life of Rick Nelson

1999-1008 - fri
Strep throat?; Injections for the Kennedy's; "Harsh Realm"; first autumn rains

1999-1010 - sun
Sniffle! Sneeze! Cough!; under cooked redfish; dazy today

1999-1011 - mon
Matthew

1999-1013 - wed
Sneezing, coughing and honking; "Percentage of net users who leave a site if a page takes longer that eight seconds to load: 33"

1999-1015 - fri
Inner tiger; slouching through web conceptualization

1999-1017 - sun
Blah!; Space in the Japanese restaurant; Subway and sweet tea; Barnes and Noble; Easter candy clouds; the Parkway and various construction including a cell tower disguised as a giant tree

1999-1018 - mon
Writer's bug; Chapter 11 grocery store

1999-1019 - tue
Overcast day; Metallic dandelion stalks; No more vegetable sticks or shrimp in lobster sauce; Pilot light on the floor furnace

1999-1020 - wed
Smidgen of fall; What did I do?; Not overhearing the lunch clientele

1999-1021 - tue
"They're writing words of love, but not for me."

1999-1022 - fri
Mother and my father's sister; father; feline tribe; potential of homoerotic additions to sci-fi tv programs

1999-1023 - sat
Rare spoken words; to sleep or not; "The Pillow Book"; watching "Rebel Without a Cause"; Dean and Mineo; "cross currents of sexual tension"; questions about my fascination with Dean

1999-1024 - sun
Chilly; dead ants in the living room; Cobb salad; "translating ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees; reading and thinking of "Fight Club"

1999-1025 mon
Sorting bookmarks about journals; expecting to see shawl-draped peasant women in the just-filed-for-bankruptcy grocery; coming out to a sky with light from some transmutated element like an O'Keeffe painting

1999-1026 - tue
"And the Band Plays On"; leading a life marked by a high degree of emotional detachment that may protect but may not nourish; "Seeks resolution to the desire to be understood and wanted."

1999-1027 - wed
"Midnight Express"; Brad Davis - hunk, star, major druggie, had AIDS; died in an assisted suicide attempt; "What is this self-destructive demon that some of us have?"; Fox harsh on "Harsh Realm": Vision of TV vice president talking to Shakespeare about rewrites for Hamlet - "By the way, ditch the sister business. Too weird."

1999-1028 - thu
Marilyn auction at Christie's; "She was so incredibly sexy, but at the same time, she was so very needy."; Unable to find more info on the web about Brad Davis

1999-1029 - fri
Fox subs "World's Scariest Police Chases" for "Harsh Realm"; SINE project - Search for Intelligence in the Network Executive - "has yet to record the smallest blip on any bandwidth."; discovering Internet audio channel - 3WK; unable to sleep, turned on TV, cinematic find was "Bikini Traffic School."

1999-1031 - sun
Wet Halloween urchins; a memory of first seeing the fairy-castle beauty of a hollow crown formed by an exploding liquid drop; where in the ridges and swirls of the brain does such a memory hide; kitty hide-and-seek and new party tricks

1999-1101 - mon
"Top Hat"; Fred and Ginger; "a Venice of pure make-believe"; "fruitless mulberry trees that are quickly turning into a blaze of crimson and emerald."; "Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood."

1999-1103 - wed
Sinus infection; "whatever I have never actually goes away, but constantly mutates; William Gibson: "Something that's often been pointed out to me in the last 10 years is that pornography has been, throughout the modern era, at the cutting edge of every new technology." also "cell phones have altered the 'psycho-geography' of places."; not going to work - low-grade fever

1999-1105 - fri
Slightly better; devoid of gumption; Cable 2K; cat's paw; TV channel numbers?; balkanized recorded music channels

1999-1106 - sat
Little Tokyo; characters in a boring play; "Love and Death on Long Island"; "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss"; "Now Voyager depart..."; Sean P. Hayes

1999-1107 - sun
Bunkhouse; quotes; astrology profile; bio; offering insights from behind the keyboard

1999-1108 - mon
Back to the office; cache; BIOS password; bio of Sal Mineo; "Fortune and Men's Eyes"; terrible, terrible tragedy his murder was; blacks and gays

1999-1109 - tue
"Decoding Nazi Secrets"; Alan Turing's suicide; web cams and updates as of 02/07

1999-1110 - wed
Depressed; cease to exist; "Cellophane Man"

1999-1111 - thu
Thanks; Veteran's Day; Vietnam Memorial; "Each name an extinguished life for an insane cause. And again I weep!"

1999-1114 - sun
Web work; birthday dinner; mall smells; mall food court - "a big, huge, ugly space with all the ambiance of a Greenland airplane hanger"

1999-1115 - mon
Dentist; grocery shopping; vacuuming; "Billy's Hollywood Screen Test"; evolving background section

1999-1117 - wed
"Trust in God"; car repairs; re-tinkering with web site; Keith Cam

1999-1119 - fri
Eric Close - post-preppy yumyum; wooly fog; classifieds2000.com; law student; "GWM ISO boy toy for fun and frolic"

1999-1121 - sun
Rain; a glass of wine; personals; looking at cars; "Shooting the Past"

1999-1123 - tue
"Door will be opening ..."; "Got your tool belt with you?"; Sampras on Santa's lap; Yahoo and Excite ads; "tux and a lisp"

1999-1124 - wed
Brain dead evening; The Mystery of the Wrong Number; Last Thanksgiving I thought I was going to die; Personals - Part II ; Bumps, boxes and tucking

1999-1126 - fri
Bird Day; Thanks to Brian, Richard and Lohengryn; Ricky Martin

1999-1127 - sat
Site Maintenance and Cows Loving Cows; Ball Shaving; French Skaters in Kilts; The Personals Saga Continues

1999-1128 - sun
KeithCam Writing; Car Shopping; Park Walking; Ioan Watching; Genre Reading

1999-1130 - tue
"Cabinet of Dr. Calagari"; Auguste and Louis Lumière; Monday and Tuesday; Christmas is coming; 12 days of Christmas; cats and the Christmas tree and lights

1999-1204 - sat
Web Page Twiddling; Days and Nights at Home

1999-1209 - thu
Back to Work; Raise High the Roof Beams

1999-1210 - fri
Weather and Work; One-armed Men; Beams, Beams, Beams; Feline Friends

1999-1212 - sun
Wet; Lunch; B&N; Dinner

1999-1213 - mon
Wet and Cold; The Not-So-Lost Language of Cranes; Back Home; WB; Cat Tricks

1999-1214 - tue
Going in Circles; Circles in Circles; Buffy Returns; The Gay Third Grader

1999-1217 - fri
Noel Coward; The Shaggs; E-mail Ad

1999-1223 - thu
Christmas and Disconnectedness

1999-1225 - sat
Christmas Day; Seasonal Programs

1999-1227 - mon
Nature Watching (and obligatory cat story); BVD; Valley of the Dolls

1999-1229 - wed
WB; Breaking the Surface; Malaise; Jack On, Jack Off

1999-1230 - thu
Web Revising; Jacking; George Harrison ; Journal Review

1999-1231 - fri
Today; stamps; "preparing for a snowstorm"; lunch; gaydar; B&N; Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica; "quiet evening with a beautiful, thoughtful man, but that does not appear to be in the cards."

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