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Oooooooooo...atmosphere being mean. You can hear the deep thrum of pounding sinuses from all over the building. "Boy! Bring me an aspirin!" "What, the one as big as me?" "The very same! Here's a sovereign for you."

Went out last night after 11:00. Definite aurorage, though not the blatant fingery fireworks kind. Found a spot on the front walk shaded from the street lights and the Moon (the Moon was loud!), lay down and stared straight up. The sky was opal-colored, the sort of thing we get if it's about to snow and the low wet clouds are reflecting the city lights - but there were no clouds at all, and the stars were sharper than I've ever seen them here. You'd think the extra light would wash them out, but instead it brought them into focus, including many we don't normally see. They kept changing color, most visibly in the mid-range stars and the clustery bits. The Pleiades were pink, then green, then blue, then lavender over the course of a few seconds.

There were also shooting stars. I used to wonder if it hurt them, burning up in the atmosphere, but now I'm pretty sure that a meteor's last thought is, "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Anyway, I lay out there alone in the dark, quietly grooving, until the cold of the concrete started eating through my back.

Neat.

gravy!

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artist wets pants, film at 11:00

Aneurism narrowly averted today. Tried uploading art to my AOL storage to find that my space limit has apparently been met. Say what? Then remembered that Susan had pointed out, years ago, that I'm allowed something like 5 different AOL usernames and each one gets its own web space. Logged on to a backup username (and thank God I remembered the password) and started another parking place with their lame-ass software. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Susan.

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Rooted around in AOL's remedial software (it's the ISP in the little yellow bus!), managed to find both the FTP thingie (delete delete delete) and the screen name creator. I swear, there's nothing to make you feel lamer than trying to think up screen names - except finding out that someone else already has whatever dumbass nick you've thought up.

Of course, then you run across someone called SonicRULZ666 or TimberlakesGirl or LordDemonSlayer, and you feel better.

Note to l'il Disney pals: "WildernessLodge," "SpaceMountain," and "Kungaloosh" were already taken.