5.7.04 calamities

I've spent two entire work days wrestling with web site calamities. Most of the problems are fixed now but I have a dozen serious and pressing tasks to deal with before visitors arrive for the weekend.... and Byron has the cords for my digital camera, but he is apparently downtown giving a talk to three thousand people at the convention center. In short, no photographs of my head are available.

Though last night I realized that I've done this twice in the past. Once in 1984, after the first cancer year, when my ill-advised punk rebellion head shaving idiocy finally grew out and I pretended to be normal to "make friends." Once in 1994 when I finished grad school and attempted to pass as a "bureaucrat."

It is not clear why I feel a pressing need for normalcy in 2004, especially since I never actually look normal even when I conscientiously assemble the correct camouflage.

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