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Fri - K and i returned from the cape.

D's alive and she has a dumpster!

Put our carpet in it in a midnight operation.

Then i went in the Insight to pick up A, only 5 minutes late from her Chinatown bus's slightly late arrival.

Got home alive and over the weekend it was all Boston Skillshare, excellent.

http://bostonskillshare.org

First evening dinner at Addis Red Sea Ethiopian in Boston.

Second evening dinner went for Venezuelan

Venezuelan food in West Roxbury, we arrived just after they closed (at 7 p.m. on Sunday) and the woman apologized, but then, as we left, asked if we had come far. On learning that A was up from New York City and we had come from an event in Boston to come eat there, she told us to wait, and went in back and got some leftover empanadas, which were not vegan but i was told were excellent.

5197 Washington Street at the corner of Grove Street
West Roxbury, MA 2132
Phone: 617 323 7844

See also this review http://www.wickedgood.info/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=39607

Took A back to NYC, putting S on a plane back home today.... Great goodbye party for him last night! Thanks all who came!

Just to get them out of the way of his re-organized cabinets. That's dedication.

Our home is being converted to German efficiency.

Went to The Franklin Café with C and J - first time seeing her in a very long time - and had a pretty good meal off their mimeographed, provided-by-request vegetarian menu and good conversation, though i think i talked too much. Resolved to do meet again, if we don't all take a trip to Chicago together or something.

Following a Drupal talk i had a lot of fun giving to a small group at Mass General Hospital, i stayed in South Station out of the rain. (Before the talk, i stayed a bit at Encuentro 5.)

Went into Boston with Stefan today. MBTA commuter rail faretakers accepted my expired 12-ride commuter rail pass (after six months!?) without comment. I may consign them collectively to a lesser layer of hell.

MC: Dorothea Manuela
All workers must be organized!
No more borders.

Bill Fletcher

- recommends two volume Invention of White Race
- Racial denial in Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela. If white folks in US said we are all African, we'd be 3/4 to socialism. People can say the same in Venezuela and it doesn't mean quite as much.
- Land

Both good movies, but sad... probably would have cried if not distracted just enough by the code i was working on. :-P

And probably would have cried over the code without the distraction of the movies.

Preceded by dinner, also with R + M, at a pretty good and affordable Mexican restaurant, that was wonderfully flexible with making black bean enchiladas with avocado and vegetables instead of cheese and cream. Somewhat small serving size made up for by the unlimited tortilla chips and hot salsa.

That's all last night.

http://www.rootsvisiondesign.com/kasey/index.html

For Manda.
For Andrew- coming back from New York after a great time with everyone... and claiming his guitar.
Oh, and for all of us on the book-- a real live contract for signing!

Finally heard from D today!

My bowl of 5-alarm salsa fell off the overcrowded kitchen table while i was out throwing the compost into the compost pile. I pulled what i could off the top of the dirty floor and broken glass, and ate it.

I really hate to waste food.

Only had to spit out one mouthful when i felt a suspicious crunch.

Talked to M on Skype.