Journals : 2003 : December

Previously...

• I have the most wonderful husband in the world. I just wanted to mention that today since he's been especially wonderful for putting up with me the past thirty days or so. I haven't been particularly pleasant company, I fear...
• That said, tomorrow marks one month, a hundred bucks saved, and -- if the old cliché is true -- five thousand extra minutes tacked on to the end of my life...
• What a beautiful weekend, weather-wise. It was gray and soggy and chilly and generally wonderful. Pity it won't last...
• It sure would be nice if I could have those five thousand extra minutes NOW rather than when I'm old and senile. Oh well...

• I'm glad to see that someone else gets incredibly horny when he's sick. I thought I was the only one. Really...
• So I'm sitting here on a Friday morning waiting for our new bed to be delivered. The old one's in the hall, and I'm amazed at how broken-down and disgusting it looks. I shouldn't be; its assorted protruding coils have been poking me for months now. This bed wasn't exactly brand new when I got it from friends ten years ago. And it's seen rather, ummm, intensive use since Thanksgving Day 1993. I guess I'll miss it in some ways, but I'll be glad to see it gone in even more ways...
• Is it more frightening (a) that there is an "as seen on TV" store at Serramonte Mall in Daly City featuring everything from Ginsu knives to orange cleaner to salad shooters, or (b) that we bought something there last night?

19 December 2003 | Link this

Nice dinner with Sarah last night, and today Mark and I are off to Fresno for the weekend...

Sorry I haven't been very chatty this month. It's not likely to improve over the next ten days or so, I fear...

19 December 2003 Later | Link this

I just got email from someone using the word kewl, which I thought had been banned from all Internet correspoendence around 1996, and even from AOL by sometime in 2001. Of course, the guy also called me "dude", so there's no telling what kind of time warp this thing came from...

25 December 2003 | Link this

29 December 2003 | Link this

Happy news du jour...

Freezing cold, pouring down rain, and I don't have to go to work today. This is good. Pictures and stuff from Fresno, Christmas, and a Central Coast weekend coming soon, not to mention maybe an actual essay. But right now, I'm going to wrap up in my blanket and watch a Christmas present...

• The Sierra
• USA Today
• Los Angeles
• Jury duty
• North Carolina (and a little Georgia too)
• Cardioversion 1
• Anniversary Lite
• Los Angeles again
• Smoke-free

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