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Did you ever own an auto-reverse Walkman?  Or even a double tape deck with auto-reverse, so you could put in two tapes and dub them, or have them loop back and forth, with TWO albums, not just one, so you didn’t have to get up and switch the tape deck.  120 minutes of uninterrupted music, other than that long pause and large clack in the middle. Ah, yes, it was a golden time.

Well, if you did have one of those bad boys, did you ever press and hold down the stop and play button at the same time, maybe when you were trying to press play and record to tape something?  Or the pause and fast forward just because you wanted to see which would win?  And you’d get that rapid-fire click-click-clicking of plastic gears in pain?

Yeah, that’s how I feel.  I’m on fast forward, doing a zillion things this week, and yet I’m not really getting anything done. Pause.  Well, lots of work things, but nothing non-work related.

Susie’s out of town at a knitting… retreat? meetup? seminar?  It’s really just a wonderful chance to get together and do the yarn thing with people who are as knitting-obsessed as she is.  Which is totally cool, I’m really happy for her.

Meanwhile, I did squeeze in one outing this week: Adrian Tomine, a cartoonist that was doing a speaking / signing at Sophia Books downtown, where I got a comic book signed.  It wasn’t my comic book, it was Matt’s, and it wasn’t my idea, it was Siobhan’s.

Anyway, that’s all I have today, but a quick shoutout to Debbie for getting me off my blogging pause. Click click click.

Overheard

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

...who said it?

“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”

...who said it?

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

...who said it?

“I play with variables constantly.”

...who said it?

“Only the person who has learned Continual Love coming from a heart of Gratitude/Worship can effectively deal with the problem of loneliness.”

...who said it?

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