October 09, 2008
favorite local business contraction
it's been sad to see some of my all-time favorite local business contract significantly over the last year. Found another one tonight.
so far...
- Vis-Art closed all their Durham stores
- Hold Your Own moved their Chapel Hill store to a really unattractive, small space in Durham, and closed their Raleigh store
- and now Ecko is closing their Chapel Hill store and moving stock into the Durham store.
I think a decent percentage of the lasting components of my household have come from the last two stores. At least they're not gone completely.
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October 08, 2008
another ending
not nearly as traumatic, but it gave me a start. the first web site i ever did, wxdu.org, has finally been replaced.
i neglected to take screenshots of the old site before it was replaced, but i trust that the internet wayback machine will store it for all time.
it gave me rather a start to read the mail, "the new web site is live!".
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October 07, 2008
Thank you to everyone.
I want to thank everyone who has let me know that they were sorry to hear of Moses' passing and that they are thinking of us. I really appreciate it.
I am okay. This weekend was pretty bad, and I'm glad I was with J. Coming home without Mo was very sad, and I still expect to see him every time I walk into the living room. It's strange to be at work at the end of the day and not need to get home for any particular reason.
Mostly it's okay though. I know he was ready to go.
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October 04, 2008
Moses "Brown" Linn, 6/28/91 - 10/4/08
Moses died this morning in Newport News, Va. Jason and I were with him when he died.
He was the most extraordinary cat I've ever known. We were together for seventeen years... probably almost to the day. When he and his mother Franny came to live with me, he was so young that he was still nursing.
He loved hunting small furry creatures, wresting with shoes, being chased, making the bed, being scratched under the chin, talking, and cheese.
I miss him.
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