Packing and Trashing
Tremendous amount of packing going on here. I'm having to sort through a few dozen boxes of stuff I've stored at my parents move over the years. My grandmother has recently moved into my old bedroom and eventually they're all going to move to a new place -- so my stuff's got to go. Part is getting shipped to New York, loads of stuff has been trashed and we made a pretty big Goodwill run today. It's a lot easier to part with when you realize you'll have to pay to keep it (due to mailing or storage costs.)

Among the key finds:

-- Rick Springfield "Working Class Dog" concert T-shirt
-- secret keys to the top of UCSB's Storke Tower
-- I did indeed have big hair in the '80s
- posted by Amy @ 6/28/2003 11:50:00 PM

 

Trekking to LA
Hi LA-based fans of Amy. Looks like I'll be in Los Angeles tomorrow and part of Thursday. So if you want to meet up and you haven't heard from me, it probably means I don't have your e-mail address with me on the road and you should drop me a line. Please use heyheyamy at yahoo with a little dot com at the end. Gracias.
- posted by Amy @ 6/24/2003 12:38:00 PM

 

Buzznet Guinea Pigs
Marc Brown is looking for people to test Buzznet before the launch. In its new incarnation, Buzznet will be about "event-based mob-blogging" in addition to a personal photo weblog. Check out the details.

Buzznet Reloaded
The Return of Buzznet
- posted by Amy @ 6/24/2003 12:32:00 PM

 

Travel Advisory
I'm still in travel mode, but finally posting again as you can see. This space may get a mixture of Seattle, Oregon, Pleasanton, Bakersfield and Los Angeles posts in the coming days as I catch up.

- posted by Amy @ 6/24/2003 12:26:00 AM

 

Making Friends by Lying
There was a good line in a book review in the San Francisco Chronicle over the weekend:

It doesn't take a great liar to fool people. It just takes a lie that people might want to believe.

- posted by Amy @ 6/24/2003 12:05:00 AM

 

Advice for Mount St. Helens Tourists
1. There are about half a dozen visitor centers on your way up the hill. You want the one at the very top.
2. Don't expect much from the exhibits in the visitor center. Instead, hang out by the ranger dudes who can answer every question about three different ways. They're great.
3. When you're driving up the hill and you see the sign for "last gas," you must stop and get gas -- even if you think you're tank's pretty full. Trust me on this one. (And if you're not driving, and you ask your driver if you need gas, convince them they need to stop and get gas no matter what. Trust me on this one.)
- posted by Amy @ 6/23/2003 11:56:00 PM

 

Back in My Day ...
While I was up in Portland hanging out with some gals from my high school, we were pondering how much harder it is for teen-agers to be bad these days. When I was 16, double piercing your ear was considered a little dangerous. (I did mine with a rusty safety pin after getting grounded for running away from home, so I got bonus points.)

We were pretty glad we didn't have to consider obligatory tattoos, navel piercings, tongue piercings, or piercings in places you wouldn't have to worry about your parents seeing.

And then I see this story (and photo): How to slice apart with your tongue as "art."
- posted by Amy @ 6/23/2003 11:51:00 PM

 

Evil MSView
Here I am in Bakersfield where oddly it is under 100 degrees, yet I've spent nearly the entire day inside trying to remove crud from my dad's fancy computer. Somewhere along the line he downloaded some programs that have bred corrupt siblings like evil bunnies wallowing in the vilest level of hell.

Talked to Ken Layne this morning who told me to install Ad Aware, which is kinda cool until you realize you have 113 cootie files of unknown origins. It's like finding out every person you slept with in college gave you something that's only just now showing up like recurring acne.

Not that I did anything like that. Or know anyone who did. I just read a lot.

So the worst of the worst is some thing called MSView and it just won't go away. I'm hoping bad things happen to the people responsible for that little troll.
- posted by Amy @ 6/23/2003 11:36:00 PM