hey francesca

so that was wierd, ringing up F out of the blue, and she tells me she's been reading this here blog every now and again...

i had been assuming that noone reads this, i think it's probably better if i carry on assuming that, even if F is dipping in.

i welcome you of course F, and i will be coming round for that great macrobiotic food and piano playing. would like to hear your voice again.

transfering email business, spam is getting me down, the daily perusing of hundreds of email subjects, all kinds of obscure things, who knows what kind of effect on my psyche that has, information pollution.

the longcat.net email officially launched on the world, using mozilla thunderbird. supporting emerging, or at least independent technology. similar reasons for choosing pegasus as my email application all those years ago. thunderbird already is doing things for me that pegasus can't, but pegasus can deal with distribution lists, thunderbird can't? or just that i don't yet know how to?

obscure use of italics, like when i was wandering round the tate modern yesterday with L, telling me i have that american raising intonation at the end of my sentences.

blogspot was down this afternoon, first time that's happened that i've noticed since i've been blogging. glad it's back.

reading the poisonwood bible, everyone and their dog was reading it maybe a year ago, has a character who thinks in palindromes, loving that:

(to the tune of amazing grace)

Evil, all . . . its sin . . . is still . . . alive!
Do go . . . Tata . . . to God!
Suger don't . . . No, drag us
drawn onward,
A, he rose . . . ye eyesore, ha!

from today (wednesday), sitting in manolis's cafe:

he was talking with his son about selling the cafe, which would make me very sad, manolis's food, and the oddball individuals that go in there, and his personality...

i ask him how much? his son jokes that i'm talking about how much for the cafe... three fifty manolis tells me.

last week for some reason he wanted to teach me the greek phrase:

dum spiro spero

as long as i live, i breathe.

i got him to write it down and it's now my bookmark.

x