an extra-long long weekend

things i didn't do this past weekend-plus-some-days:

• go to work thursday or friday (planned time off).


• go to any of several bbq-type gatherings


• do much cooking or baking

things i did do this past weekend-plus-some-days:

• substantial house-cleaning


• substantial outcrufting (7 garbage bags of stuff to goodwill!)


• bagged two barrel-fulls of cruft from the pile of random trash under my carport (a partial outcrufting can be a bad thing)


• watched a bunch of movies


• had substantial sloth


• watched the somerville memorial day parade


• went to see kjc007 and ceciliatan read from a book of poems at "out of the blue" gallery in central square


• went to the cape on saturday to hang with my folks

socializing. productivity. sloth. apparently i could only pick two, but i'm okay with the choice this past weekend.

other interesting links i've come across in the past few days:
californian training architecture (think "hogan's alley", or "laser tag course"), heathrow to have robot cabs, captioned pidgin-english photos[1] mashed up with rocky horror picture show

[1] short shameful confession: whenever i see "icanhascheeseburger", i keep almost reading it as "icannhascheeseburger" and momentarily wonder if it's some dns-architecture-related protest or parody.

oh yeah.

my usual roofers have passed on fixing the chunk of roof that's going bad, here, since they're busy and it's not slate -- it's the (comparatively) small piece of roof that's regular old shingle. anyone got a shingle/asphalt/rubber roofer they like who does work in somerville?