Better make this quick; a fan in my laptop is dying and I’m going to call Apple on Monday; it’s momentarily fine, but it’s easily repeatable and needs fixing before the shit hits the fan. *drumfill*

Got my car an oil change today, then swung by Mekka. (Funny story — there’s free wireless, but it comes up with only a login prompt, no continue-as-guest or anything. Viewing the page source is a cheesy and horribly insecure way to find that “guest” is a valid login.) While there I helped this fellow with his old Powerbook get Firefox installed and gave him some pointers. Earned myself a free hot chocolate, so I can’t really complain.

Tonight I went to the Midtown Stomp; it qualifies as perhaps the largest consistent venue I know of — granted, it’s smaller than 920 on an open-house or some other big night; or even our Last Lindy at Night — but for an average week, this seemed to be a lot of people (although maybe it was a holiday weekend, meaning more people in town. Who knows?)

Anyway, lots of good dancing, but the DJs were always on high-tempo. Like, rarely dipping below 170 high. People get tired. People like to mix it up. Beats should do the same. You could notice the sheer improvement on percentage-of-people-dancing in the last half-hour when they slowed it down a little starting with “A-Tisket A-Tasket” and then went into the Motown Sound starting with “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”.

It’s been an interesting time at home. I’ve been quite reflective; of course, that seems to happen a lot when I go home. Getting away from all Berkeley-goings-on is a way of rationalizing all of them. Hell, I’ve been reading Kierkegaard — just to show you kinda what’s been on my mind (yay Existentialism)

On the way home from dance, coming up on Auburn, I saw a shooting star falling away from the bottom-left star of the Big Dipper’s cup. My mind went to three or four places at once (quite the momentary mind overload) — the next full second I had a wish in mind, apropos to all of them. *crosses fingers*

And then it occurs to me: You are lucky! Full moon tonight.