elf-reflection :: living in changeling timesthe thoughts, ponderings and personal web site of an elf in exile living, on this side of the borderlands, in Arlington, Virginia. home of the list of dc metro area glbtq blogs and journals.but most of all...- (Found July 15, 2008 ) I am incredibly blessed by, and am so very grateful for the presence of Jeff in my life, as my partner. I am very much in love, happier than I have any right to be, and amazed that I was able to find someone who puts up with me and with whom I'm such a good--nay, nigh-perfect--fit. I love you, Jeff. Thank you for allowing me to love you, and for loving me back. Thank you, Internet, for bringing us together. Thank you, universe, for being a place where such things as friendship and love exist...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/11/25/23.10.49/index.html a concerted effort- (Found July 15, 2008 ) We had a jam-packed weekend, about which Jeff posted partway through, providing a glimpse of our basic itinerary. Friday night, as he noted, we saw Chanticleer in concert at George Mason University's Center for the Performing Arts. They were, as usual and as expected, nearly flawless (with only the very first selection not seeming quite up to their usual standard of excellence); it was a delightful evening. On Saturday, after a late breakfast and some necessary errands, we took the three-hour..http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/06/20.49.32/index.html dreaming of failing- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Strange dreams last night. In the one from which I eventually woke, my father was still alive but had called me into his bedroom to tell me privately that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and had only four to six months to live. He had important information about his finances that he wanted me to know, so he handed me a Palm Pilot on which he had encrypted the information, and told me to input the pass phrase he was about to give me in order to make sure that I could access the...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/13/14.52.54/index.html i'm super, thanks for asking- (Found July 15, 2008 ) In my immediately previous entry, I described a dream in which I was the superhero brother of The Incredibles's Elastigirl, but in that posting I didn't detail my own superpowers. I noted that during this dream, I had remained aware at some level that I was, in fact, dreaming; my superpowers actually were impacted by that awareness, changing on the spot in ways that mimic my own conscious imaginings of what superpowers I'd want to possess. As a little kid I most often thought about desiring...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/13/15.52.10/index.html swizzle schtick- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Does anyone know anything about Doc Scantlin and His Imperial Palms Orchestra, specifically their "Swizzle" supper club performances at the Ronald Reagan Building From their web site, and given that they've performed at such high-society weddings as that of Madeleine Albright's daughter, and of Alexandra Miller and Alexander von Furstenburg, they sound fun but potentially very straight, in which case I'm not sure we'd want to spend the money to go (e.g., if we'd have to sit out the dancing)....http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/13/20.51.05/index.html presents of mind- (Found July 15, 2008 ) So, here we are, little more than a week away from Christmas, and in fact only a week away from my heading down to my mom's for the holiday, and I've yet to do a single bit of Christmas shopping. Normally someone who loves shopping, I think of Christmas gift shopping nonetheless as a horribly painful chore, perhaps the worst of the perennial stressors. And I don't even have to buy that many gifts, really: Jeff and I have agreed that we'll buy something nice for the condo, an attractive,...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/15/19.16.31/index.html a site for sore eyes- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Some days I really enjoy being at work. Oh, it's not so much that the tasks themselves are any less tedious or any more challenging on these days, but that sometimes I just become aware of the physical location, which really is quite nice for a bureau of a Big Government Agency. This morning, walking across the campus to the cafeteria building--we're primarily a training and educational institution--and finding myself the only one out of doors at that moment, I was struck not only by the...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/17/15.00.39/index.html www dt's- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Friday afternoon, just minutes before the end of the work day, the Internet connectivity at work went down. This morning it was still down--apparently our bureau and one or two others were taken off the Internet because of a suspicion of a trojan horse--but we were told that it would be back up today. Around 11:00, though, we were sent a broadcast email that said that Internet access would be unavailable "indefinitely." Within a few minutes after that, but completely unrelated, the power went...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/20/21.28.42/index.html odds and ends- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Our Internet connectivity at work came back up yesterday afternoon at 4:30. However, that was mostly academic, since I wasn't really able to get online since: I'm acting division head today in my boss's absence, which means, of course, that everything that could go wrong has waited until today to do so. No time for lunch. Again, ant that's becoming too much of a habit. So it was a slice of cold pizza from the cafeteria while working at my desk. Yet again, one of the rare shows on television...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/22/16.30.20/index.html christmas vacation 01- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Yesterday I drove down to my hometown for the holidays. I woke up with a sore throat and mild chills, so I took my time preparing to leave, heading out around noon rather than the usual 7:30-8:00. The drive, which normally takes about three and a half hours, this time took a white-knuckled near five, the first two (with what I thought was unusually heavy outbound traffic for noon, even on the day before Christmas Eve) just to drive the 74 miles from home out I-66 to I-81, and much of the next...http://www.elfintech.com/reflection/archives/2004/12/24/23.46.01/index.html |