(went to bed early last night, which explains the delayed post).
strangers see madeline
and ask lots of questions:
“how old is she?”
that i can answer.
“what’s her birthdate?”
i can’t answer
that one.
i just know
it was x number of weeks ago.
weeks are abstract.
i can only think in abstracts
right now.
specific dates
are too concrete,
too factual.
it was a beautiful
saturday in los angeles
so we [...]
we woke up late today.
lounged around for a
few hours.
then we went
to the bank again.
this time with madeline.
realized it’s not
just old women
who want to poke at
a baby.
no.
young women love
babies as well.
and a cute, quiet, sleeping baby
inspires seemingly rational
women to want
one (or more) of their own.
first of the month
(paychecks to be deposited)
and the [...]
over the past
two days,
my site has been
taken offline multiple
times
by the fine people
at 1and1.com.
(with no explanation)
finally learned that
this site was sucking
30% of the bandwidth
from one server.
they told me to get
my own,
or go away.
or as they put it,
Your account activity has demonstrated that your site
deserves its own server to better suit its performance needs.
so [...]
