not enough sleep

Couldn't get to sleep, thinking about the servers that needed rebooting. So I got up at 02h30 and rebooted one of the fellas. Or is that bastard. Today or tonight there's more - an exchange roll-up that fixes all the problems with the other roll-ups. I'm going in late, coz I'll be there late. I'll take my Go stones in, to play go with our resident Doctor Topologist.

Yesterday, had breakfast with T. Talked about The Infinite Jest, Jorge Luis Borges, Klaus Theweleit, Hannah Arendt. What a well-read couple we are. Remarked upon about Operation Paperclip, MK-Ultra, crypto-fascist occultism, shape-sifting reptilian overlords. Who writes those pages? What do they want from us? Took a cigarette break. Touched upon personal mythologies, creating music or painting or photography. Discussed "No Country for Old Men" (Coen Brothers, 2008), "Man on Wire" (Doco abut Phillipe Petit, 2008), "A Scene at the Sea" (Takeshi Kitano, 1991). Paid, took another cigarette break.

Had dinner with R. Salad and tortellini like delicious little ears. Watched a couple of episodes of "Ashes to Ashes" (BBC, 2008) - the look-back to the sexist atmosphere of the 80s still makes me cringe.

Vocab of day: geiselhaft = taking hostage, die Geisel = the hostage

Rain came in the night and melted the snow, so it'll be slogging it through slush to bike to work today. Let's do it.