Tangerine: A Book of Hours

In-between bouts of deep driving rain the sun is glowing pale yellow. A moment ago raindrops were flying almost horizontally past the window -- now it's semi-shiny and the birds are tweeting.

Kind of a funky day.

I'm trying to get stuff done early because, tonight, I'm meeting Kelli, Alex, and Kelli's dad downtown. Kelli is taking us all to see the WWF at the Mellon Arena. I think it's going to be fun -- we even made signs to hold up. (And I must say that my sign is, by far, the most incredibly spiffy bit of graphic artistry that anyone has ever seen.) I've never been to a WWF event before, so I'm looking forward to seeing what it is like.

Well, time for me to finish up some stuff and get ready...

Update: Smackdown was a lot of fun. Hulk Hogan won and, even more importantly, the Hurricane fought in two matches...

Kelli wrote an entry about the night in her journal Midnight:

http://www.geocities.com/Kelli372/mid17.html

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A glass of red wine, and the sunlight is going horizontal. It's Friday and the air feels smooth, the weekend opening like a time-lapsed rose.

Slow, at the moment, but these things always speed up.

Scott Weiland is singing "Atlanta" on my CD player and I'm writing this before showering and getting ready for the night. The day, so far, has felt a bit rushed. I didn't get a lot done but hey, it's the weekend now. Time for some fun.

Kelli will be out, later. We'll probably hit Tramps and unwind. I'm looking forward to seeing her. Ah, and congratulations to Dawn and Bob on the birth of their daughter, Taylor Marie -- health and happiness to all of you.

Well, I'd better get rolling here. Thanks for reading -- catch you later...

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Hot bright sound, pouring up. This blue sky mood: skylighting.

I’m Thursday’s child, today. Working, typing, music in the background. I like being back to this. It’s easy to forget (surprisingly so) the pleasure you can get from certain things.

The weekend is stepping up closer. I hope it will be bright. Joel is (or will be) in the Ozarks on a 60 mile bike ride. Kelli is at the Sewickley Spa today -- I hope she is having a great and relaxing time -- and has been hitting the gym. I have to start getting a bit more physical, myself. Get a bit more fit for the Summer. I’ve been doing 50 crunches every morning but that’s about the extent of it so far. If I exercised as much as I think about exercising I’d be one buffed dude.

I think Thursday is cerulean and breezy, her hair tangling around her face as the sunlight pours down. She moves like the newly-greened trees: a fragrant swaying half-dance. And evening is her promising smile. Thursday’s night will hold a clarity of stars.

Maybe it’s the coffee, or the abundance of light, but I’m feeling...vivid, today. It’s good. And I’m groovin’.

--- John

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Cool: the air, this interface, the month...so far. Talk about a lush chunk of time gone by! But Tangerine is back.

I've missed this.

Today was all blue clarity, bird calls and the sly fragrance of Spring flowers. I was cleaning for a primary part of it. Cleaning and fiddling with this new set-up. I honestly thought that installing Movable Type would be a lot more difficult than it was -- though, don't get me wrong, I screwed things up multiple times. I think I have it working right now, though. Hopefully.

I'm going to try and update Tangerine in it's new form as regularly as possible. I also plan on uploading all of my past entries to this new system and making them available in the archives.

Of course, all of this is also part of a larger experiment: my domain, The Allurium. That is also in progress and is coming along pretty smoothly.

Well, that's about it for now.

I'm glad to be back.

--- John

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