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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.05.28

No coffee in the home this morning; Mari's look said, "Bring coffee beans tonight, or don't come home." I've gotten too wrapped up, geeking on my own research work. Some fascinating stuff. But I've been putting in eleven hour days again.

Three good things that happened today:

  1. Superb weather for cycling.
  2. Ken read me the first half of "the boy who cried wolf" before breakfast, he did it with great competence.
  3. The lawn election sign arrived for the candidate we know.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row