Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Markian M. Gooley's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
11:02 pm	half a toe gone It was done Wednesday morning. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: numb Current Music: bass aria from BWV 78 (Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
9:37 pm	Probably I'm going to lose a toe About two weeks ago, I stubbed the second toe on my right foot. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: crushed (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
9:53 am	Ubuntu, Karmic Koala flavor I upgraded. It seems to have gone well. I agree with adw3345: "It's brown." Default color for a lot of things (bar indicating active window, selected text, and on and on): various shades of brown. They could take up the UPS slogan as their own, though they'd probably just get sued. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
10:52 am	tympanoplasty aftermath I went to the surgeon for a post-op checkup yesterday. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: I really should be listening to something (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
2:02 pm	tympanoplasty fun Always ask, and always expect the very worst. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: irritated (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
7:47 pm	home again When I get back to Orlando or Tampa or Jacksonville airport before 9 or so, it's usually best to just drive home. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: blank (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 26th, 2009
6:57 am	back in the YYC Food Court Ir's just before 5 AM as I start this. ( Read more... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
1:19 am	never shatner air travel Not if you're I. Well, none of you are. Maybe you can get away with it. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: floor-cleaning machinery (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
8:25 pm	I should probably give up Scrabble I drove down to Pinellas Park (a bit past Tampa and across an arm of Tampa Bay) on Saturday and played in a 6-game Scrabble tournament.( Read more... ) Current Mood: cynical (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
12:17 pm	Parade of Homes: should I bother? I thought that it was just last weekend. It's also this weekend. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: lethargic (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 9th, 2009
2:32 pm	mysterious looming things in Tampa Bay -- explained In between losing (mostly) at the one-day Scrabble tournament last Saturday, I went out and had a look at Tampa Bay: ( Read more... ) Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
2:12 pm	belated rockhounding report For the record, here's what I suggest if you're collecting agatized coral and such on the shore of Honeymoon Island and the causeway going to it. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: blah (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
6:29 pm	to Tampa for Scrabble, with rockhounding perhaps There's a one-day Scrabble tournament at an assisted-living old-folks place in Tampa on Saturday. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: hopeful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
12:28 pm	silly Gigantor idea There's some talk about Gigantor because a life-sized statue is in the works in Kobe, if not already done. A friend pointed me to an article about that, and I noticed that the original Japanese name of the robot is Tetsujin 28-go, which apparently means Iron Man #28. Then I remembered that a Japanese cast-iron teapot is a tetsubin. Tetsu meaning iron, I suppose. Okay, maybe they don't sound all that much the same in Japanese. Maybe they do. But... please, please let someone in Japan have done a parody about a giant teapot. Robotic teapot, even. They've had decades. Current Mood: amused (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 25th, 2009
5:21 pm	comment I posted on amazon.com I really shouldn't write these things. Oh, well. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: irritated (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
10:39 pm	hymn tune geekery and guesswork There's a lovely hymn tune based on an anthem by the Welsh organist and composer Thomas John Williams, ( Read more... ) Current Mood: awake Current Music: what the post is about (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 21st, 2009
4:00 pm	not quite a rant on domestic architecture I went to an open house on Sunday, the real-estate variety. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: blank (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
10:41 am	how to shatner a cheap room or rental car on priceline Personal coinage: to shatner. This means to get a hotel room, rental car, or air ticket via priceline.com. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: blank (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
9:28 am	are all injection pens this lame? I'm out of Symlin in the 5 ml vials. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: annoyed (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
8:21 pm	Rants on domestic architecture, #4 I went to Georgia to play Scrabble, but I also looked at houses. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: discontent (5 Comments |Comment on this)