poeticdream is no longer using livejournal. She started using it before I did, back in 2001. She has almost 3000 posts (I have slightly less than half that number, despite having had mine almost as long). She's writing in a paper journal now, as she often has. Why? SUP, since they have bought Livejournal have reversed previous SixApart and LJ practices and business decisions. Notably in the case of basic users (which were ad-free), SUP recently switched these accounts to sponsored overnight with no notice. Now, from the company which once promised to remain ad-free forever, you have the option of either liking ads with your journal, or paying for the privilege of your creative content remaining ad-free.

Sorry guys, but you're going to have to throw in a lot more added benefit than just "no ads" for me to want to pay to have a journal. I'm seriously giving thought to hosting my journal on private webspace. I don't know if i'm retro chic enough to revert to paper like Robin.

poeticdream: "I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want some coffee?"
abigail_m: "No, I don't like coffee!"
Robin: "Why not?"
Abby: "Because it's too caffeinated."

me: "I have pizza, yes I do. I like pizza, how about you?"
abigail_m: "I do!"
me: "that rhymes!"
poeticdream: "woohoo!"
me: "that does too!"

as my facebook update says: "Kim is at the high school but his show is also live on the radio. how is this possible? discuss."

my dearest thanks to the lovely poeticdream, who right now is guest-hosting my show on WRFR since I had to make up time at work. I love you babe, and today you truly are "the voice of WRFR" (how many hours have you been there today? 6? 7?

you, Robin, quite literally and figuratively, rock.

GLUTEN LOG.

this post is brought to you by abigail_m, poeticdream, sleep-deprivation, and wheat hamburger buns shaped like phalli.

(abby, just now: "freakin' turn off the light, dude!")

poeticdream: "okay, you've got dinner under control. now i'm gonna go in the living room, get naked, drink beer, scratch my cunt and write my essay about what it means to be a woman."

robin: "next year, we'll get a real menonnukhah!"
me: "a what?"
robin: "a menonnukhah!"

Poll #890148 define it!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

so, dear lj, what exactly is a menonnukhah?

abigail_m: "boob! boob! booby booby boob! momma, boob!..."
me: "you know, we can never tell abby she's a broken record because she's never seen a record"
poeticdream: 'we can say "you're like a skipping cd!' no, wait, we don't listen to cds... i know: 'you're like a poorly-encoded mp3!'"

finally, a beer that poeticdream will drink! and the name is amusing too: Smutty Nose!

i am amazed. the floodgates of the beerverse are open! with that, goodnight.

Poll #826183 school : work :: livejournal : ?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

should poeticdream be

so, fall is coming Real Soon Now. this is how things are gonna go:

• abigail_m will be enrolled in the Ashwood Waldorf School on Fridays for the parent-child program.
  
• Abby will also be going to PeoplePlace (a coop preschool) on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  
• Abby will also be taking swim lessons at the YMCA on monday mornings.
  
• I will be teaching "Wireless Networking Without Tears" monday evenings starting september 11th.
  
• poeticdream will be taking 4 classes at UMA as well as still working part time at Second Read.
  
• I'll also, of course, be working full time.

busy, busy, mommy, daddy and abby, indeed. does this qualify Robin for soccer-mom-ship and me for soccer-dad?

happy anniversary, poeticdream.

it's been a wonderful two years.

i love you so much.

text message from +15852785873:

Remember I said I though up a corny new sn? I remembered it.

The Lactator.

I'm a dork.



You love a dork!



Dork!

[5:58] [Robin Hamann] 16,ooo miles is better than the cl one of 40
[5:59] [Robin Hamann] it looks like a bunny!!!

[5:59] [Robin Hamann] Here bunny! Bunny! Bunny!
[5:59] [Robin Hamann] Hippity hoppity bunny!
[5:59] [Robin Hamann] VRoooooOOOmmm bunny bunny!
[5:59] [Kim Slawson] *smiles*
[6:00] [Robin Hamann] it does!
[6:00] [Kim Slawson] it does, i agree
[6:00] [Robin Hamann] can we name your delorean little bunny fufu?
[6:00] [Kim Slawson] we can
[6:00] [Robin Hamann] woot!

EDIT: to clear up misconceptions, i do not yet own a delorean. someday i will, though, and then i will be very happy indeed.

poeticdream: "and if [the tomato soup] isn't good, we should make a migramage . . . [trails off]"
me: "migramage? *laughs*"
robin: it's like a pilgrimage and a migration all at once!"

fyi, poeticdream and i are now engaged to be married. yes, i know this post is short, but i should hurry home into her arms.

everyone, please wish a happy 22nd birthday to poeticdream!

i love you, robin.

( and here is one reason why (scanned from her notebook) )
my favorite bit is at the end.

go see poeticdream's long holiday entry of doom! it has pretty pictures and stuff.

my sweetie gave me coffee-flavored chocolates and solstice cake! she r0x0rs, oh yes!

other things that rock about today:

• mailed out 90% of the christmas cards
  
• the christmas tree is set up (thanks, mom and dad!)
  
• soon 501 main will have high-speed wireless ethernet direct from midcoast internet solutions. this makes me overcome with joy.
  
• our thinkgeek order came in:
  
  1. 1 polarity board game (fun with magnets!)
     
  2. 1 carnivorous plant set
     
  3. 1 dc inverter for the cah (now i can drive and solder at the same time!)

w00tw00t!