I'm under the weather because we covered up the mirrors in the hotel room with my blanket so no one could cheat playing Indian poker and I forgot to take them down and I slept with the air conditioner on full blast.
I haven't written in a while so there should be more to talk about than that.
My office laptop died on me after the weekend I decided to buy a portable hard drive. So somehow it's not as bad. The first few days without a service desktop were hard though. It was like one of those X-men adventures where they lose their powers and have to survive on wits alone. Usually involving a Danger Room sequence. Geek alert.
Birthday came and went with a bit more fanfare than usual. Probably because the universe owes me from last year. Thanks to everyone who greeted and thanks for the cake(s). I think the healing has begun.
With the exodus of two important channels (Jack TV and Basketball TV) from our cable provider and the writer's strike, cable is officially crap. What's worse is they taunted us with Discovery Travel and Living for a couple of weeks before pulling it out as well. Thank God for P2P. You hear me? P2P! Large entertainment conglomerates, you brought this on yourselves!
I think the music has also plateaud. I hope I'm wrong and I've just been watching the wrong channels and reading the wrong blogs.
Canceled my gym membership, in a strange twist on the New Year's resolution staple. Simply don't have time to make it worth the money its charging. And it's also one tired scene; everyone I know has either canceled themselves or just stopped going. I need some physical activity to take its place though. My weight is at a two-year high.
I have 6-book backlog from being too busy:
- Curiosities of Wine - Pamela Vandyke Price
- History of Beauty - Umberto Eco
- Heartbreak Soup - Gilbert Hernandez
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern - Various
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
My mom and I cleaned Zara up today. Need closet space and fast.
Change is in the air. Good or bad? Probably good, by default.