Category Archives: Personal Journal
last post before move
I’m going to try to move the blog to my new website at johnnorvell.net. Everything might go away, and that wouldn’t be too horrible, actually. I’m tired of my office workstation crashing while I’m out of town or at home, … Continue reading
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S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe)
The Dec/Jan Real Simple mentions this amino acid (one that naturally occurs in the body) as a good supplment for joint pain. It does seem to be effective, not only for this but for depression as well, but the jury … Continue reading
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back from LA
Returned late last night (Nov. 30) from over two weeks in Pomona. Finished the painting, went through several anxious periods about how to lay the bamboo floor over our shitty concrete, and finally got the floor cleaned, primed, and vinyl-ed. … Continue reading
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Books, mead, and a movie
Smita recommends a novel about a slave ship builder called Sacred Hunger. Saw Sideways at Kendall Square tonight with John and Smita. Great flic. Before the film we started a batch of mead with the wild blackberry honey from Washington … Continue reading
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Books to get at McIntyre’s
left behind to get next month: Wagley and Harris, Minorities in the New World, in “anthropology”/W, and Rachel Harding, A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness in “Brazil.”
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first post
Today is my birthday, the first day of my post-41 life, and the first day I’ve been able to get MovableType working on this box.
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