thank god the welfare checks come tomorrow
I got to work a day shift today, and it was a cakewalk. It was rather slow for a weekday day shift (this was attributed to the fact that the state payday comes tomorrow rather than today), and as a result I didn't make a whole lot of money, but I didn't have any nervous breakdowns and handled myself well. It will suck working Wednesday night, but it isn't a day that TJ's band is practicing so I should be able to take a nice nap before work. Prune and Bridget work tomorrow and I don't envy them. I declined to volunteer to help.
It sure doesn't feel like October out. Fall came and went for about two weeks in September, but no one told the trees, so they still have all their leaves and its bright and warm and sunny every day. I'm not complaining, but I'm sure ready for it to be 55 for a couple of weeks rather than just over 80. Fall is the most tolerable season here, as it lacks the oppressive heat and humidity of the summer, but doesn't have those blistering adabatic winds from the plains of Canada like winter. We're expected to have a cold winter this year, so we'll see.
No shit, I have been colder here in winter than I ever was back home. There is no large body of water to moderate the weather, so while we don't get a lot of snow (20inches or so), we get terrible ice storms. Last year we has several and it gave all outdoors surfaces a glazing and took power down over half the city. It will also drop into the single digits for weeks at a time, with those awful dry winds howling. It doesn't help that over the past couple of years my heating situation has been a little touch and go, but in the new house we have a nice new furnace that I'm sure will keep us toasty enough all winter long. What was *not* so fun last year is that I needed to walk through one of them to work with no hat, because Alex had taken the one winter hat with him to work. It felt like a bucket of ice water was being continuously poured over my head and I had a hellacous ice cream headache.
I sort of want an ice storm this year so I have an excuse to go take pictures of the nice statuary in the adjacent cemetery. I think that the weepy Jesusii and the pieta scenes would look great on an icy gray day with a coat of glazing. It all too bright and shiny right now to bother with.
TJ has started to assemble his Swedish designed furniture which all has clever unpronounceable names with characters not in the latin-1 character set. The assembly instruction booklets look like they were created by tall nordic men named Bjorn who have doctorates in semiotics. There are no words, it is all done in numbers and pictographs. It all looks nice and I'm glad that he has got his furniture adventure mostly over with. He has picked out a couple more things to have shipped at some point, which also have clever unpronounceable names and feature blond wood and stainless steel prominently.
I have re-discovered the power of internet radio, because my mp3 collection is a little sad (all my good stuff was on a computerbox that went to valhalla a couple years ago). I had not known that you could obtain XM radio steams over the tubes. I've been listening to the appropriate channels almost exclusively and clapping my hands with delight when some public station plays my 70s era David Bowie juxtaposed with Switchblade Symphony. There are curious All $BAND stations, but who can really listen to every single live cut from Tori Amos frex all day long? I guess there are misunderstood people out there who can only listen to songs about what its like to be misunderstood. You know, an artist that really understands them.
At the last trip to the bookstore, I picked up another Jacqueline Carey novel from her non-Kushiel's series. It threw a lot of made up fantasy words with Capitals and italics at me within the first 10 pages, which is usually never a good sign, but it is well written and she has a good ear for description, so I'm buttoning down for it. I'll probably polish it off later tonight so I'll be able to report back. Her Kushiel's Dart series was very nice except for the obligatory BDSM sex scenes, but my eyes sort of glazed over for those parts as they do nothing for me.
Alex's back hurts so he's a crabby pants. He shaved his head bald again so he's cuter than a box of kitten though, so I forgive him for being a wounded tiger.
It sure doesn't feel like October out. Fall came and went for about two weeks in September, but no one told the trees, so they still have all their leaves and its bright and warm and sunny every day. I'm not complaining, but I'm sure ready for it to be 55 for a couple of weeks rather than just over 80. Fall is the most tolerable season here, as it lacks the oppressive heat and humidity of the summer, but doesn't have those blistering adabatic winds from the plains of Canada like winter. We're expected to have a cold winter this year, so we'll see.
No shit, I have been colder here in winter than I ever was back home. There is no large body of water to moderate the weather, so while we don't get a lot of snow (20inches or so), we get terrible ice storms. Last year we has several and it gave all outdoors surfaces a glazing and took power down over half the city. It will also drop into the single digits for weeks at a time, with those awful dry winds howling. It doesn't help that over the past couple of years my heating situation has been a little touch and go, but in the new house we have a nice new furnace that I'm sure will keep us toasty enough all winter long. What was *not* so fun last year is that I needed to walk through one of them to work with no hat, because Alex had taken the one winter hat with him to work. It felt like a bucket of ice water was being continuously poured over my head and I had a hellacous ice cream headache.
I sort of want an ice storm this year so I have an excuse to go take pictures of the nice statuary in the adjacent cemetery. I think that the weepy Jesusii and the pieta scenes would look great on an icy gray day with a coat of glazing. It all too bright and shiny right now to bother with.
TJ has started to assemble his Swedish designed furniture which all has clever unpronounceable names with characters not in the latin-1 character set. The assembly instruction booklets look like they were created by tall nordic men named Bjorn who have doctorates in semiotics. There are no words, it is all done in numbers and pictographs. It all looks nice and I'm glad that he has got his furniture adventure mostly over with. He has picked out a couple more things to have shipped at some point, which also have clever unpronounceable names and feature blond wood and stainless steel prominently.
I have re-discovered the power of internet radio, because my mp3 collection is a little sad (all my good stuff was on a computerbox that went to valhalla a couple years ago). I had not known that you could obtain XM radio steams over the tubes. I've been listening to the appropriate channels almost exclusively and clapping my hands with delight when some public station plays my 70s era David Bowie juxtaposed with Switchblade Symphony. There are curious All $BAND stations, but who can really listen to every single live cut from Tori Amos frex all day long? I guess there are misunderstood people out there who can only listen to songs about what its like to be misunderstood. You know, an artist that really understands them.
At the last trip to the bookstore, I picked up another Jacqueline Carey novel from her non-Kushiel's series. It threw a lot of made up fantasy words with Capitals and italics at me within the first 10 pages, which is usually never a good sign, but it is well written and she has a good ear for description, so I'm buttoning down for it. I'll probably polish it off later tonight so I'll be able to report back. Her Kushiel's Dart series was very nice except for the obligatory BDSM sex scenes, but my eyes sort of glazed over for those parts as they do nothing for me.
Alex's back hurts so he's a crabby pants. He shaved his head bald again so he's cuter than a box of kitten though, so I forgive him for being a wounded tiger.