Part 2 of the photos from the A+ Attitude Summer Tour are finally up. Not sure if I mentioned this before, but you can now click on the site title banner above for a rambling discussion of its meaning. And the entire rare word dictionary is now up, letter by letter.

I never quite made the decision not to sleep last night, it just happened. I had slept from 11am-4pm the previous day, so it wasn't the most difficult task. At some point I decided it was finally time to use the multimeter I purchased last summer but never bothered to put a battery in. When I removed the panel, I found a battery had been there all along, in a wrapper and therefore not connected. Turning it on I realized it was a rather complicated machine, and endeavoured to search for the manual. Although I obtained it without too much trouble, it sent me into a flurry of paper-organizing, a rare state for me. I accumulate a really large amount of paper, and a couple of big piles on my side table went back 2 and 3 years. It's all quite valuable to me. I especially enjoy finding tattered slips of paper of the type I carry in my pocket at all times, on which I originally scribbled what would become lyrics for some of my good songs.

This process lasted most of the night, at the end of which H joined me for a film double header, The Quiet American on DVD and "Master and Commander" at the Ziegfeld. Both are fine films with much to recommend them, and the latter is unfortunately being marketed quite poorly. How do you start a TV ad with Now, to stop them, he must sink them? But, I suppose the money is better spent on the film itself than the marketing. And now, my fingers find themselves near unable to type.