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I just finished writing a functional brief and deploy instructions for a project<\/a> I’ve been working on. Now it is out of my hands. <\/p>\n So tomorrow we leave for Oman at around 3pm. I am so happy to have a week in a strange place with no work. I’m disposing of the rest of my evening by “browning down<\/a>” *<\/a><\/sup> and burning CDs to play in our rental car. So far I’ve got the new Built To Spill, Oneida’s The Wedding<\/i> and Come On Everybody Let’s Rock<\/i>, and I’m trying to burn Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Tepid Peppermint Wonderland<\/i>, but iTunes is giving me grief.<\/p>\n It was recently brought to my attention that my online journal is the #1 result when Googling “ethan beirut”. The last I had checked it was #2. Gagner! Googling “ethan brooklyn” only gets me #22.<\/p>\n <\/a>* “Browning down” is actually what UPS managers and executives call it when they have to don the brown uniforms and go out into the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mood is: I just finished writing a functional brief and deploy instructions for a project I’ve been working on. Now it is out of my hands. So tomorrow we leave for Oman at around 3pm. I am so happy … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/images\/worn_mouse.jpg\")
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