stranger and stranger

December 17, 2007

OK, folks.

This makes two mystery gifts.

The Who’s Live at Leeds - one of the big live albums of all time. As Stop Making Sense was to concert films, Live at Leeds was to live albums.

Normally I’d load up my ‘Pod and take a lunchtime walk to listen, but it is rather cold out and I don’t think there will be any walking today. So I’ll have to wait for the commute home. I may have to invent a necessary task and go take a walk anyway, though - this one promises to be pretty damn good.

So, thank you very much for Mystery Gift #2! The disc arrived very carefully packaged by your vendor of choice, and the disc/liftlock case/inserts are all in great condition. An excellent gift. This one will be providing many hours of listening pleasure, I’m sure - the big My Generation medley is amazing.

Other than that, yesterday I had one of those humbling moments where a coworker that you are friendly with - but not necessarily active friends - happens to take a look at your work. Not knowing that it’s yours. And not really liking it all that much. And saying so.

*sigh*

After some extended grumpiness on my part my co-worker figured out what I was worked up about and swears that I misinterpreted the whole thing. I think that’s a little disingenuous, but I am willing to accept that he certainly didn’t mean anything hurtful. But it does raise that age-old question: had he known it was mine would that have caused him to a) look at it more carefully and dig something out of it that he enjoyed? or b) lie?

I know I can’t please everyone, but damn, it’s still no fun to hear that someone dislikes what you do. Ah well, this is one of the reasons I actively elected not to get on the art mil as a Working Artist - the rejection can be, well,

crippling.

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Where the hell have you been?

December 10, 2007

There was a host hiccup.  They forget to tell my domain registrar that I still want my domain.

Oops.

Other than that, I have been working mondo hours at the store and all other time goes to rest or Christmas shopping.  Hooray.

There should be a more coherent post soon.

But don’t hold your breath.

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