Russell J.T. Dyer

Just some guy, hanging around Milan.

the activities and musings of an american writer and editor in milan, italy • Updated: Dec 29, 2012 - 12:00AM • hits: 3294 for site today; 1 for page this week

Contempt for Twilight

— New Orleans

Over the Top

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A few months ago I moved into a new apartment. My old sofa was too long to fit in the stairwell to get it into the new apartment. Plus, it was very shabby and needed to be replaced. Since I had a new credit card, I bought a new, smaller sofa thinking it would make it up the stairs. But it didn't and I had to get a moving company to bring it over my balcony on the fifth floor.

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posted: dec 16, 2012

Musings

Below are recent musings of mine. Click on an entry heading to read its full text. Click on the musings tab at the top left to see all of them.


Deleting Skype Contacts

Over the past few weeks I have begun to delete friends most of the people from my Skype contact list. I have deleted friends, actual friends with whom I regularly communicate. I am down to eleven contacts in Skype now: eight colleagues, two friends, and my daughter.

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I have no friends; I have no girlfriend.

A few weeks ago I couldn’t suffer Facebook any longer. I thought to deactivate it again, but knew I’d give in later and reactivate it. So this time I deleted all of my contacts. According to Facebook, I now have no friends. It’s kind of a neat thing to say.

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