First, props to the BlogSpeak community for coming to the aid of BlogSpeak. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, BlogSpeak is the service-cum-person who wrote the software that enables you to send me nasty comments - see below this entry for an example thereof.

Anyway, Mr. BlogSpeak has been doing all this work for free; when his load became too much for his service provider, he appealed to his BlogSpeak-enabled community to pitch in and cough up a couple dollar$ each so he could pay for a better service. He's been shelling out for us all this time.

So thanks to everyone who passed the hat through PayPal. Word to my peeps. I have to stick to a kind note because I don't have money for peanut butter right now - I had to borrow it from a neighbour.

Today I also downloaded the karma pa wallpaper designed by Karmadulgu of Singapore. Here's a random way to juice up your computer... pictures of a sprul sku (pronounced and often written tulku) surrounded by pictures and portraits of his sixteen predecessors.

The karma pa heads up one of the five religious schools of Tibet, namely the karma bka' rgyud (pronounced Gahma Gahjü and usually written Karma Kagyud); I am not a bka' rgyud pa but rather more interested in the ris med (zhee may) or Nonsectarian movement. Nonetheless, the karma pa has always been an important figure and teacher for Buddhists and I'm happy to look at his face. You won't appreciate it quite as much unless you are Buddhist, but it is a neat image anyway. Thanks, Karmadulgu.

I have been kind of bored and also a little irritated that the Girl didn't call. Oh well, chalk one more up to no-show. Oy, Kalki! My roommate and our guest took off several times without me today, which is kind of confounding. I don't always need to be there but I'd like to be there sometimes. I'm out of money right now and would have liked to have something to do, but they left me home twice today without asking if I wanted to go. Maybe I'm annoying them somehow.

I'm not worried about them reading this; they never read anything I send to them. Then again, who does?

I went into LIBRARY overdrive the last few days but still need to refresh my webpages. They don't have all the books there. I've also started adding comments and reviews for the finest books. There prolly seem to be a lot of books given lots of stars because I had a staggeringly huge library before I moved to San Diego from New England and had to cull it into about ten percent of the original size, thereby ensuring that most everything I kept was
1. super-excellent, one of my favourite fiction or non-fiction books [i.e. monkey v. robot, the divinity student, roanoake
2. an excellent resource despite flaws (i.e. the roman army from Caesar to Trajan)
3. or was one of the few books that snuck in that suck.

At least it's Sunday. Used to hate Sundays back in the day but now it means that after a two-day hiatus, Adult Swim will be on tonite.

Boy, do I have lots of nothing to say today, eh?

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