This toing and froing like a confused moth.

• A big pack of stick-on googly eyes makes everything better.

• At least the birthers have stopped pretending it isn't just racism.

• Rocknerd: Keeping up with the kids; Don't make me wait; Music industry whining has a long and venerable history; If I did not like big butts, could I lie?

The older teen moved out with her boyfriend on Friday. Another one successfully raised and cast to the four winds. We have cutlery again! Bowls! Plates!

My birthday cake, with 45 candles. The candles and chocolate were melting under the heat. Birthday drinks were lovely, thank you, even if I had a throat infection and found a pint and a half to be too much. Red Lion E11 doesn't do food on Mondays. I was so looking forward to that steak! Next time.

arkady has started homebrewing mead. And writing a blog about it. Our kitchen is an alchemist's lab. Bloop. Bloop. Bloop.

I have discovered the best Icehouse album ever recorded: The Berlin Tapes. I most strongly commend to you "Disappointed?" His "Love Like Blood" wins as well. How the hell did I not hear of this when it came out?

Two, approaching three, months' deep communion with ant's stunted, twisted little soul has been paying off spectacularly. I can do a fresh application setup in thirty seconds. The bit that manages crontabs caught my boss's eye, to the point of him suggesting we manage all our crontabs with something along these lines (we haven't been consistently keeping them in source control). There's got to be a deepity along the lines of "an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Puppet" in there.

Seeking lyrics for "Knife Slits Water" by A Certain Ratio. The obvious search only turns up two things that are not that. Any ideas on leads?