does it still count as 'playing hookey' if it's a scheduled day off?

[rmd]

first off: HEY NEW HAMPSHIRE! WELCOME TO THE PARTY!


yesterday, i looked at the things i felt i had to get done in the near future and at the number of them that would be facilitated by being free during business hours, and ended up arranging to take today off.

i slept in (a bit - i have off-hours work tomorrow morning, so i didn't want to skew my schedule too much, but i did sloth around in bed petting the cats[1] after waking up), then got up and am now enjoying a tasty cup of tea.

it's trash day and the trash is out, including a dent in the "i should sort through this and put it out" sort of trash. i have a (long overdue) haircut scheduled for late this afternoon. i am putting together the various paperworks for bank-related errands (shuffling money, etc). i have a bunch of house-bound stuff i will do as soon as i stop procrastinating via livejournal updates. :-)


several links, including some interesting covert communications trivia:

• If you're in the London Underground and you hear a PA announcement calling for Inspector Sands, worry. It probably means something bad is happening.


• I forget if I've mentioned it here, but a while back the folks who published The conet project recordings of number stations have released it for free on the net. It's available here.


• The entire Charles Schultz run of Peanuts is available online.


• The Free Sound (effects) project


• The folks at Transity Authority Figures have imaginary MA subway maps that amuse the hell of out me. (cape cod subway, pioneer-valley/northampton/easthampton area subway, etc)


• finally, it's just too Russ-Meyer-tastic. there is a BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS TAROT DECK. there are no words.

[1] not a euphemism.

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[ceo]

OK, those imaginary subway maps are too cool for words. Particularly the Northampton/Amherst one; that sure would have been handy when I was going to college out there.