Saturday, March 15, 2003
Breakfast at home with Patrick: sausage, hash browns, eggs. Created a playlist called "set me free take me higher" which contains songs—mostly by disco divas—which espouse free-ness or high-ness in an inane manner. Sample lyrics: "Ooh I get so high when I'm around you, baby / I can touch the sky" (Toni Braxton, You're makin' me high), "You're free / To do what you want to do / You've got to live your life / Do what you want to do" (Ultra Nate, Free, Full Intention Vocal Mix), "Are you ready to fly-e-ah-e-ah-e-ah? / Together we reach for the sky!" (Rozalla, Are you ready to fly?), "Put your hands in the air / Be free, be strong" (Dmitri from Paris, Free Ton Style). Worked on Lodestar. Got poetry all ready for review then took a nap. Patrick went to Jumpin Java to write and do homework. Dinner at home with Patrick: farfalle with bacon and green onions in a cream sauce, dinner rolls. More work on Lodestar: got bios done. We got a surprise visit from the neighbor's dog this evening. Since the fence blew down the other day, the dog is free to roam through our walkway. It's not a big deal to us; we love dogs and this one in particular, a yellow golden retriever (we think), is very docile and friendly. Finished the featured writer piece and one fiction piece for review. Made 2 more playlists: "believe" (songs asking people to believe in something or if they believe in someone or something) and "everybody" (songs prominently about everybody). Worked on Lodestar until 2:30 AM, got a lot more of the Lodestar pages to validate (had some non-validating navigation issues to work out first), added lots of abbr tags and xml:lang spans for accessibility.