2002-08-05 - 3:28 p.m. -




monday & the weather is, as James Brown would say, �Too hot! Yeoow!� i will still take the heat over the snow. i don�t have to shovel humidity.

not a bad weekend overall. spent friday night cleaning a Civil War gun & hanging out with a friend of mine who I don�t get to see enough. saturday was laid-back with a very fun gig at Speakeasy capping off the night. also did my good deed on saturday.

a carload of kids blew a tire on Rt.290 & stopped in the left lane. (not the place to be stopped) i got them to the side of the road & fixed the flat for them. made me feel like an asset to society instead on a detriment.

then there was sunday�

sunday was the �we need to kill every bug in this house NOW� day. let me digress for a moment. our cats have fleas. it happens every year. we get the flea drops, scratch for a week or two, & that�s it. well�. this year we were overrun by fleas. we put the drops on the cats & the fleas were like, �bring it on tough guy�. sunday my wife reached her breaking point. within 3 hours i had 7 loads of laundry done at the laundromat, while she cleaned everything in our house, moved it all, vacuumed, flea sprayed, cleaned again, & put back where it was. she also flea dipped the cats & lived. (for those who don�t know, we have 3 cats who weigh a combined 54 pounds with one of them making up almost half of that) we are now a flea-free house & the cats still look shell-shocked.

did a slam with the team last night that went great (we won. hehe) i think we�re ready for nationals.

got the car tuned-up for my wife�s trip to the midwest. she leaves on thursday morning & i go on full-time baby duty till sunday. my folks are taking him while i�m at work & i�ll have him the rest of the time. he�ll be sick of me by friday night.

starting to feel a bit more like myself again. still shaky but not as often. doing a lot of breathing exercises to keep calm & trying to keep busy. sometimes it even helps. having trouble being in large crowds right now. too much noise & stimulus. need small groups (or one-on-one) to keep me calm. hoping this will pass by nationals or i�m in trouble.

tonight, baby duty & relaxing. (i hope)
perhaps it will rain.
we could all use a cleansing.
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Today�s Stats
Coffee Count: 4 mugs
Cigarettes: 9
Candy: a mint
Now Playing: the air vent in my office.
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�If gays are granted rights, next we�ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.
-Anita Bryant