I want app startup times minimized, or moved into persistent daemons. I want to pop apps in and out quickly.

I want more transient apps for small tasks like journal-posting or sending an email where I can start a process, and when I hit okay or send, have the app close entirely.

I want the keyring entirely integrated into Epihany.

Today, I

• talked with a 62-year-old homeless woman and good friend for an hour,
• took pictures of flowers usually considered to be ugly,
• was frustrated, sad, and angry all at once,
• was frustrated by someone I love,
• helped someone record a radio show,
• drank too much coffee, and spent two hours in the coffeeshop talking to the barista since nobody else was there,
• was given the backhanded compliment that I was arrogant before, and not so much now,
• thought about poverty, power, and how the most meaningful jobs pay nothing at all,
• accepted religious tracts with grace and some serenity,
• wore tie-dye, because the bright colors bolstered a dark mood inside,
• was proud that I can stand six feet tall without slouching, and not be uncomfortable,
• invited two people twice my age to dinner,
• slacked off on cleaning the house,
• and looked for grasshoppers to feed my tarantula, and discovered that fall is progressing faster than even I want to admit.

Downs: had a lousy evening unexpectedly. Then came home and had a long talk with a friend who’s in a bad spot right now. Ups: that ended up better than I’d expected, and then I worked on the directory index script I’ve been coding for a while, which is now much prettier than it was.

Dar Williams and Ani DiFranco doing “Comfortably Numb” rock.

If I were to write a letter to every lover of mine, it would read like the lyrics to these songs.

The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles sucks because they don’t have a separate motorcycle license anymore. I hate them. I don’t want a driver’s license.

Also, people who suck suck. So there.

I really must remember that I don’t have to follow any family patterns. It’s quite okay for me to live my life my way, and my parents to live their life their way, and for my sister to do her thing.

Apparently my queerness has been noticed about town, and I am the last to know, as I expected. C’est la vie. I suppose I need a T-shirt that says “Just ask the question” now.

I surprised a furry, black-and-white scavenger on my way into the back yard. I think I was about ten seconds from being skunked. Cute, though!

It’s hot and muggy. Southerners, tell me to shut up because I’ve never seen hot and muggy. It’s raining and 70. Sheesh.

And now, off to dinner with Carrie and Max. Too bad there were no vegetables at the market to bring along.

I hate phones. They just don’t work for me when I really, really, really need them to.

upna is back in town. I was a bit nervous about her coming, but she showed up at the park during the concert Sunday night, and I realized that it’s all okay.

I’ve missed her. There’s a reason we’re not together, for sure, but I really think we’ll be friends for a long time.

tsunobrat asks:

1\. What's your favorite color? (I like this one)

Storm-cloud grey. I love the intensity of what's supposed to be a placid color.

2\. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

At the moment, I'd love to hop through a few big cities — Portland, Minneapolis, New York, Boston, stopping long enoug in each to get a good idea of their flavour.

3\. What is your favorite spot in your home like?

That would be my front garden. It's a small patio with plants growing on three sides.

4\. What is your perfect world like?

Stable size, not ever expanding to destroy everything in its path, and diverse. More different kinds of people than you can imagine.

5\. Who do you not want to be?

I don't want to be the pasty computer geek with no social skills.

So fucking pissed I wasted my whole day and got nowhere.

I’m exhausted, but not feeling sick at all.

Sir Hiss is back from his incarceration. I was wondering where he went a couple days ago, talked to the humane society today, and found out he ended up in a skunk trap. He’s home again, thankfully.

I was looking at the photos on Redux Pictures and saw this one —

— and now I’m thinking of my cousin Brian and his family.

apollotiger has been asking for something like this.

You know you’re a geek when you dream about programming.

This isn’t arc, but in my dream, it was:

TAGS(<body><h2>$[calculations]</h2> $[RULE(<p>$[some stuff])])

I think I woke up counting the close-parentheses.