moments luck is green i had a dream we were at burning man again.. not quite, but something like it. like a million endless rooms, filled with boundless energy and action. sometimes i'm not even sure i ever left. maybe i'm still there and this is all a dream. 010909 ... filing cabinet hemispheres Don't you think it's fantastic how moments change with time? A moment can be awful at the time, but for the rest of life you remember it nostalgaically, and the ones you expect to last forever don't. 060531 ... nom i've thought myself loved if even a little, or a lot maybe i was, maybe i am, maybe i'm not 070425 ... nr she'd been in the village market for 15 minutes or so — wandering the aisles, being indecisive about what she wanted to buy and what she could eat and what she could cook or all of the above. she stopped at the freezer and picked up a bag of frozen shrimp. she pondered whether that was a safe choice when there was no information and no instructions on the bag. the shrimp looked cooked in colour but didn't say confirm they were cooked, so she was unsure and put the bag back. but then she decided to give it a chance and took the bag out of the freezer, grabbed a lemon for flavour, and headed to the cash. "hello, how are you?" the friendly cashier asked. "good thanks, how are you?" the customer responded, before tentatively asking "are these shrimp cooked?" the cashier's english was broken and she didn't quite understand the question at first, but then communicated that she didn't think the shrimp were cooked. "i thought they were because of the pink colour," the customer said. the cashier said, "they're easy to cook. boil for one minute, two if you want them to be soft!" and then spoke a few minutes about shrimp and how she liked to cook them. "i like them pan-fried," she said. "i like them pan-fried too," the customer said. "what do you put on them?" "garlic, salt, lemon, and onions," the cashier replied excitedly. "you're making me hungry!" the cashier chuckled and bagged the items. "cook for just one minute!" she repeated as the woman walked out. 230928 what's it to you? who go blather from