http://beyondmetamora.net We are the same people, only farther from home Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I returned home yesterday from a trip w/ my sister to Central Florida. We were visiting our parents, who I hadn't seen in more than a year. It was quite lovely. On the same day that I stepped off the plane I was photographing manatees in Blue Springs with my ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/225.html (Happy Decemberween, kiddos: I tossed together a Whitman's Sampler of 20 songs plucked from the albums mentioned below, and you can [download it right here]. Share & enjoy.) One of the things my dad sent me for my birthday last week was a double-CD of two Dave Mason LPs: It's Like You ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/191.html It's pretty warm in my apartment right now. It's a 3rd story loft-- a big open space-- so it's hard to keep the temperature consistent. When I turn the heat off, all the warm air tends to drift to the top. A fan would probably do the trick, but I ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/178.html I'm glad I summoned up the resolve to post that last entry, despite the fairly grumpy tone. At least it's getting my mental gears moving in the right direction again. Current mood: improving. Tomorrow-- I'm guessing it'll be too late tonight; I'm meeting up with some friends in an hour or ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/177.html Ugh. No entries for 3 months. Briefly: things are still going well for me here in B'ham. My job is still great, my town is still lovely, my always-expanding circle of friends seem by-and-large to be faring this great depression with admirable grit and an unkillable sense of fun. My stress ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/176.html Tonight I decided to update Beyond Metamora to the latest version of WordPress and rearrange the site to look like a more conventional-- well, more like a blog, basically. It bums me out in one sense, but in other ways inspires me. I'm going to miss the homemade sharpie-marker design that ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/139.html It seems I've fallen into a once-monthly update schedule for this. That suits me fine. How are things? Outstanding. Those of you who've known me for any length of time know that I'm running out of  ... [read the rest] http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/113.html So I'm back from a week's vacation. Had a wonderful time. Drank a lot of good beer, hugged a lot of fun people I hadn't seen in months or years (or ever), ate a lot of too-rich food, climbed some amazing dunes, and ... [read the rest] http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/112.html I am quite pleased tonight, all-over pleased, yes I am. For almost two years now, ever since I moved back to Bellingham, I've been WiFi freeloading on the networks of generous neighbors and local latte-slingers. The hipster 'net. Tonight, I am back on the serious internet. The copper-wired, 7Mbps, streaming-video-in-HD ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/111.html Lots of interesting things happening. I keep saying I'm going to sit down one night and write a proper post, but it's gotten to where there's a half-dozen disparate things that I want to talk about all at once. Maybe it'd be better to just upend the whole box and let ... http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/110.html