slow news day
       a few emails sent out

       watched a few quicktime trailers

 Up at eleven after only five hours of sleep.
 I have to get laundry done as quickly as possible, since I'm woozy
 if anything.
                More... sleep... is ... good

 instead I stayed up, writing more pages
 Took a break at 4:30ish to do the usual household chores
 until Sel got home

     Continued to cook the porkchops and make some rice. 
     Watched Steve Martin's All of Me, but conked out. 
     Up again at 10PM. Called Mom and we talked for a while. 
 Updates on Dad. Talked to Sel for awhile.
 Started work on pages again @11:30ish. 
 I was doing research for the links page when I happened upon Voltes V (very cool!) 
 and some Kraftwerk pages. Awesome!
                Closing time with email from Mark Matatquin. 
                Not much else for today. Maybe I'll enlist him in my research.
 

 0528: 9 points

      Up @ little after Noon to Sel finishing yoga. 
      In quick succession we went to Walg for a few essential household items.
      Spent a while at the cafe and in nice weather they have the back open.
      A trio of skinny balding denim clad :thugs: came out 
         smoking stinky cheap cigars

 and we decided we'd better get home. I carted this pane of day-glo orange
 plastic (COOL TRASH! looked like a giant 2D icicle to me) and this guy calls out
 to me friendly I-know-you! style that I should check out a museum in the city

      if I like cool trash art, that is. It turns out that I did know the guy; met him
      this one arvo when I was hanging out @ the same cafe. Paul Michaels.

 We ride our bikes out to Court St., 
 looped back to the Smith St. Deli for some goodies to lunch on.
 Home for pita-sprouts-lemon-cheese-baba ganoush sammiches that were just amazing.
          She's got the skills!

 Dusted off the walkie cart (which is something I've only seen grannies use) 
 and hoofed it back to Court to snap up this bike carcass I had my eye on.
 Along the way I also picked up a boxful of scifi books and lugged that around too.
          There really is no need to buy anything in this fair city if you keep your eyes open.

 After only four hours, the Alice demo is fully downloaded. Was it worth the wait?
 We open it up in anticipation, but the party upstairs was on, and we left it for later.

       Sue and  Sel's combo birthday.
       The barbecued shrimp was simply yummy! The German Riesling was good too.
 I've almost totally sworn off any alky goodie and I've been true-dry for 2+ years now,
 but that wine was good. Finished off with mmm-inducing chocolate cake and the birthday
 celebrants opened their presents. It was a good party. I'll post pics soon.

 7-9PM back to Alice. The review I read proves right on the dot. It's a fairly simple
 FPS but with really lush graphics. I've coasted through the earlier stages and am quite
 stuck on the fourth. The disappointing thing is that the game doesn't really look fascinating
 enough to have a high replay value.

       That is, one time pay - one time play. You get saturated with the rich eyecandy but
 swear off after game's completion. 

 Online at eleven. Caught most of Conan (oh!!!!!! has it been ages since I last 
 saw COB!) "Welcome to my castle". Heheh. Same old funny stuff.
 
                  Rosemary's Baby from 1:30-4:30AM. 
 I am CREEPED out. This is the sort of effect that's lost on today's no-IQ required viewing.
 Rife with suppositions and high tension. A really good build-up to the twist ending.
 Maybe it's the non-visual suspense that tumbled my guts. Damn scary flick.
 Uploaded second week May pages. Lotsa good stuff.
           5AM finds me chatting with Pinboxx, +networking to find old Jammers
 I'd wanted to for a long while now, and even though it was getting late, it was good that I did.
 He emails me a database that can be useful in my research. Thanks Pin!
 

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            Kuei Glossary

 cool trash - is right where you find it. I've written about this somewhere else, but simply;
 instead of dumping still useful stuff in the trash, people here in NYC leave it out by their 
 front steps (the "stoop") or hanging on their fence for passers-by to pick up if they like. 
 Chicago, being a smaller city, had a lower cool trash factor. But New York, with its larger
 population - definitely has a higher cool trash factor. Plus, it's just cool! Trash. Art. Yeah.

 walkie cart - more NYC local color. A light metal cage usually three-by-two feet in size that
 sits on two larger rubber wheels and a pair of smaller ones that people use for just about
 anything. Mostly for grocs and light shopping, though the mobile homeless in Manhattan
 that I've seen have mastered the art of fitting all their worldly possession in one or two.
 Brings to mind the phrase "human turtle". 

 bike carcass - Welcome to New York City, fair cyclist. But beware! Bike thieves abound!
 (You always have to lock up your bike. More so in NYC, with a strong tough lock and chain)
 It always saddens me to see a bike frame stripped of everything except the chain which
 holds it locked to a lamp post, bike rack or what have you. Did the owner perhaps lose 
 his key and in desperation decide to strip the bike for its parts, leaving the still useful
 frame hanging there desolately, rusting away with every rain and in winter, the snow?
 Who knows? But the bike carcass remains - a grim reminder of the transience of life.
         Well enough existentialist angst, man! As they say, this is the big town!
         Crooks, hoods, thugs, mutt dogs and dirty swine muck about. 
         Grab your mace, know your kungfu, and bring on your gameface! 

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