Tangerine: A Book of Hours

A dark and glimmery evening. Christmas lights and Wintery air. Music, whispering from the stereo; illumination: low. I'm plugged into my phone and typing. Ready to go out to eat with Kelli.

Feeling pretty good.

I have uploaded a major re-design of The Allurium (trying to shake the dust off on my birthday). The site now runs on the MovableType program (with some extra stuff from me). It's not fully fine-tuned yet but should be, more or less, functional. Let me know what you think, if the spirit moves you.

I'm glad it is the weekend. Glad I'm 40 (what can I say; I'm pleased to be still kicking around this place).

It is very quiet here. Except for the music. The time feels disconnected. I'm drinking ice water. Wearing blue and black.

Thinking of red wine.

The ocean.

And the silky tide of hours.

Twelve doubled, and forty. Cool.

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Singing along to Iggy Pop while the day shines in blue-skied clarity. Cool breezes move through the screens. Outside, it is all open and vivid. The greens of leaves and grass, the colorful hot spots of flowers, hyper-real cloud-wisps, far above -- all washed with crystal-clear light, now slanting in.

I feel like being out in it, but I'm getting hungry too. Gotta grab something to eat, soon.

It's the Labor Day weekend, here. The last big Summer Holiday. These golden hours have passed so quickly (as they always do). Even the air tastes like Autumn, now (though that's probably just a tease -- I'm betting that the heat will return before Summer finally leaves for the year). I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing this weekend. I am going to try my best to make it fun and different, though. Open-aired.

Hmm, now what to eat? Maybe a couple of veggie burgers loaded with, well, everything I can find in the fridge. After that, I'm going to grab a shower, get dressed, and boogie. Hopefully for a couple of days. At least.

I hope the hours are as clear and bright where-ever you are. Here's to a big, wide, shiny-fun weekend...

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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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