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In recent years LiveJournal has been the thing that I always said that I should do more with. After all I had sprung for a Permanent Account. Particularly as an archive of Trip Memories before the details fade away. However logging in today the last post was wishing @vvalkyri a Happy Birthday in 2014. So I really haven't done anything with it.

I don't know if Dreamwidth will be better.

I am melancholy from reading the bio I put up when I created the account in 2007 or so. I loved my job, I didn't have a laptop or make much use of a dumb cell phone, and I stated that my reason for not doing so was I didn't want them to be time sinks when I have better things to do. Well in the mean time I like my job a lot less, I have a laptop and an iPhone, and I spend way too much time vegging on the Internet when I really should have better things to do...

Happy Birthday to dogpooh!

I had a Living Social Deal for $200 in custom framing at a place called the "Art Gallery at the Washington Design Center"

The Washington Design Center is essentially an indoor mall of high-end home furnishings shops. 
It is at 300 D St SW in DC.   There is little parking in the area.   I sort of expected that the prices for a custom framing job would be such that I would only get one piece for the $200.  I was correct. 

The prices make the Shops of Georgetown look like a discount outlet.

I've been looking for a console table for the front entry that could have a shredder and a recycle bin under it.

$10,600 (+$610 shipping)

My entire custom build "Scotch Bar" was less than $8K.  Table Lamps for $2800, etc.

I'm just cheap in some ways.

Thanks to everyone who of to my week of Funeral Thing, Mortgage Thing, Funeral Thing, Mortgage Thing, Funeral Thing... and offered support.

Its great to have friends.