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Maybe I should spend a little time decreasing the little annoyances in my life.

For example, ever since I moved in, my little entertainment center has had a two-door cabinet with one of the doors mysteriously detached. I suppose I just assumed I'd have to go to Home Depot and buy some obscure replacement hinge, but upon closer inspection, everything looked OK. There was just a bit of particleboard flaked off, but not so much that it was all that easy to put the door back in. I ended up having to unscrew a lot of things before I could get it back in, and the result looks pretty stable. It'll probably be even more stable if I get some rubber cement and tuck these chunks of particleboard back in.

Also, right now Ikea is in the process of sending me some drawers for my bedroom, and a night table. Now I won't have to keep all my pants and T-shirts in a big pile in my closet's top shelf.

Perhaps, though, I might have benefited from buying some extra kitchen storage. I think it's more likely that I should make better use of the kitchen storage I already have, and hang up that little fruit-hanger thing that my parents gave me long ago.

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Working on the Olympics in Athens makes me feel like a time traveller. For example, the Greek word for France is "Gallia". The same name it had before Rome sacked it.

In other language news, the (a?) Japanese word for "mouth" is "kuchi". I just realize that American hip-hop culture has long since adapted that word, with a slight semantic change.