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6/30: Attended an extremely beefy Business Innovation team event at Amelia's Trattoria.
6/29: Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, I came home to discover water pouring out of my ceiling from my air conditioning unit. Got the plumber in, who waved his hands around in a vague way and pronouned the problem "fixed". Stay tuned for further developments...
6/23: I was there again for Inna as, having been stabilized, she was transferred from Medford's Lawrence Memorial Hospital to Faulkner Hospital in JP.
6/14: Spent my first day in training at a client site worrying about Inna, and visited her in the ER just as soon as class was over. Even 24 hours after being admitted, her condition was grave and is an image that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I'd spend 22 of the next 29 evenings at the hospital, supporting her recovery.
6/13: Had the absolute worst day of my life as I learned late that night that Inna's roommates had taken her to the emergency room and that she was very near death.
6/10: Began my first day of work at my new job with Business Innovation, a Woburn-based IT consulting firm founded by a number of former Sapient coworkers.
6/9: Spent the afternoon with my best friend Inna, toodling around Coolidge Corner before going down to Milton and hiking about halfway up Great Blue Hill. We knew it was my last day of freedom before starting my new job, but we didn't know it was going to be the last time I'd see her before she was admitted to the hospital in very critical condition.
6/8: Spent the afternoon at the Jimmy Fund's all-you-can-eat Scooper Bowl. I felt so good about eating ice cream for cancer research that I ingested no less than 20 scoops in a 75-minute time span! OoooOOOoooh!
6/7: Went to one final printer's workshop -- on woodcut illustrations -- at the Society of Printers' excellent Boston Ink exhibition at the BPL.
6/7: Having been watching my expenses carefully for a long time, I had a wish list of about three dozen things I wanted to buy once I got a new job. As a direct result of six years of George W. Bush's "leadership", 
the very first thing I checked off of that list after accepting my new job at BI was signing up to be a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
6/6: After having a job interview at Business Innovation, I had dinner at the Sunset Grill with former DargonZine writer Rhonda Gomez. And her husband. And her daughter, who is a student at Harvard. And her daughter's boyfriend. And her two sons...
6/3: Had dinner with old friend Sheeri at her new place in Watertown. Met several very interesting people and was rather aggressively entertained by her partner Tony.
5/24: Attended another Boston Ink presentation at the BPL. This one was on letterpress printing, and we got to set and print our own proofs.
5/21: The Dargon Summit concluded with more very productive working sessions, a viewing of an exhibit of medieval armor on loan 
from Worcester's Higgins Armory Museum, and more Settlers of Catan. Check out the photos and full writeup of the 2005 Dargon Summit.
5/20: On the first day of the 2005 Dargon Writers' Summit in Traverse City, Michigan, we plowed through a bunch of working session topics; 
learned how to play the terribly addictive game Settlers of Catan; and visited the Mackinaw Brewing Company, two wineries, the Old Mission and General Store, and a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan.
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5/16: Attended the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts' annual meeting, for a talk entitled "Torture, Secrecy and the Rule of Law"  by Jameel Jaffer, the ALCU lawyer who secured the release of 30,000 pages of documents attesting to American policies of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
5/14: Played my first game of Diplomacy in more than a decade with some locals.  As Germany, I grew rapidly by quite successfully playing England and France against one another. However, I was caught off guard by a Russian stab and rapidly imploded, although I held on until 1909 and outlasted both Italy and my Russian nemesis.
5/13: I'm very proud to announce the printing of the second half of "Liberated Hope", my contribution to  DargonZine's Black Idol story arc. With the publication of my story in DargonZine 18-4, the first third of the ongoing story arc concludes.
5/9: Pick up issue 124 of The Ride magazine  and check out the well-deserved article about longtime ride partner, QuadCycles legend Bobby Mac, who epitomizes the spirit of cycling by enthusiastically helping charity riders of all levels prepare for their annual fundraising rides.
5/8: Finished reading the long-anticipated book "Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness"  by Marc Ian Barasch, which I first encountered as an excerpt in Shambala Sun magazine. Impressions and other notes can be found in my LiveJournal.
5/3: Went to a Ford Hall Forum lecture entitled "Torture and Detention: Is This the American Way?"  at Faneuil Hall, where I heard and shook hands with Sgt. Erik Saar, former Army Arabic translator and author of the torture exposé "Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo".
5/2: Attended "Torture & U.S. Policy: Find Out What Your Government is Hiding  From You", an Amnesty International sponsored discussion featuring Rep. Edward Markey, whose efforts to stop the Bush administration's practice of extraordinary rendition is admirable.
 5/2: Spent the day giving Tasia a tour of Boston's waterfont, including the Bunker Hill Monument, whose 294 will kick your ass. After a snack  inside the old bank vault at Herrell's, went to MIT where we caught Meejin Yoon's "White Noise/White Light" installation.
 5/1: Gave visiting friend Tasia a guided walking tour of Back Bay before synching up with a number of other Where's George users at the Hard Rock Cafe.
 4/20: Attended a reading at Brookline Booksmith by Pankaj Mishra, author of "An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World". Then went out to the Somerville Open Studios, where my friend Inna  was showing off and selling her eeNi-ren designs jewelery and collages.
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4/27: Renowned designer  Milton Glaser did little more than present his portfolio, while struggling mightily with his presentation technology at the 31st annual Dwiggins Lecture, which was also part of the Society of Printers' "Boston Ink" exhibit.
4/26: Attended a fascinating presentation about bookbinding history, methods, and conservation by Andrew Rabkin, Bookbinder at Large, from Boston's prestigious North Bennett Street School at the BPL as part of "Boston Ink", the Society of Printers excellent centenary exhibit.
 4/26: Read "Giro d'Italia", the book which collected Corriere della Sera reporter Dino Buzatti's lyric installments about the 1949 battle royale between campionissimi Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali.
 4/22: Took part in my first reception as a presenting graphic artist for the New England School of Art & Design Senior Show. The pieces I had selected for the show can be viewed here.
4/21: Attended one of WorldBoston's "Religion and Foreign Policy" lectures at the BPL. In this installment, Northeastern University Middle East Center Research Fellow Paul Beran, Imam Taalib J Mahdee of Masjid al-Quran, and Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow Muqtedar Khan gave an exceptionally good talk about Islam and its role in US foreign policy.
 4/21: Friend and former DargonZine writer Rogers Cadenhead achieved instant fame by being the person to secure the domain name BenedictXVI.com. Full CNN story here, Dargon writer bio page here.
4/19: Went to a  BPL lecture and discussion of the Boston Lyric Opera's production of "Flight", an odd little opera based on the story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the refugee who was forced to live at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris for 11 years.
4/14: Went to the BPL for a preview  screening of the forthcoming PBS American Experience documentary, "Victory in the Pacific", which examines the final year of World War II, presented by the director, Austin Hoyt.
4/12: Attended "Designing Digital Type" by local typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky, the first of several demonstrations at the BPL as part of the Society of Printers excellent centenary exhibit.
4/9: Went to a very good Buddhist teaching and meditation workshop called  "Taming the Drunken Elephant" taught by Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche of Dharmakaya and the United Trungram Buddhist Fellowship. I even got some good advice on overcoming arrogance...
4/1: DargonZine's 21st year continued with the publication of DargonZine 18-3, which includes the first half of my contribution to our ongoing Black Idol story arc. "Liberated Hope 1" is only my second story in the past five years, and I'm reasonably happy with it.
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