Feb. 6th, 2003

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I've managed to keep myself busy at both work and home this week. Work: converting a 400+ page PDF to HTML and moving around stored procedures while listening to "Brunelleschi's Dome", a story of innovation, architecture, ego, and the lack of copyright in Renaissance Florence. Actually, it offers a lot of insight into the incredibly time-consuming building practices of 15th century Italy - just making bricks could take up to 2 years!

Home: Drafting the duster pattern until I can get out for more fabric. Manipulating the pattern has left me with hands full of papercuts and pinpricks. My hands are a wreck, and I'd go get a manicure if I thought I'd be taking a break anytime soon.

My evening reading of "Battle for God" (prior commentary) is almost at an end, but going slowly as I find myself staying up late to do other things.

D. and I watched Cold Comfort Farm, a happy, bouncy movie that reminded me of "The Secret Garden" (outsider takes gloomy family and makes them happy again). Worth it just to see Ian McKellen play a fire-and-brimstone preacher - very convincing, but if you didn't hear his voice he'd be almost unrecognizeable.

Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN - I find this just depressing. No, can't have people looking at a painting about the horrors of war when you're contemplating starting wars, heavens no...
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Despite the snow I managed to straggle out fencing tonight. The drive home did get a little nerve-wracking - I could definitely feel myself sliding on the road a little on the way home. The snow is still dumping out of the sky - I think that 4-6 inches predicted by noon tomorrow will be here by morning if it keeps up at this rate!

My hands still hurt, but with an itching, which means they are healing. Good news, but still not very pleasant. Note to self: use lots of lotion when dealing with papery things.

Pursuant to papery things - I am astounded to look at the clock and see that I'm thinking of going to bed before midnight. I may finish "Battle for God" tonight and start "Guns, Germs, and Steel" over the weekend.

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