Hello All,
Okay, so I'm house/dog/cat/chicken-sitting for my friends Jane and Kevin this weekend, and my Greg has gone to get our little David at his mom's house. They won't be here with me until tomorrow, and I'm bored, bored, bored, bored, bored--as our old friend Garfield the Cat used to say. I was out of work today because of the snow (and I was out yesterday also), so I came down to Jane's early. I've had lunch, checked on the chickens, watched a little TV (how people can watch afternoon TV is beyond me--it's horrible!), and now I'm bored stiff. I could read, but it seems I never want to when I have time. Besides, the house hasn't really warmed up yet, and I can't read when it's cold. Maybe later.
So, here I am on the old blog. I changed the layout (which goes great with the photo of the sofa, huh? I'm loving it), and now I'm posting what is probably the most worthless prose in history (short of Ulysses by James Joyce, and I don't care whose "best of" list it's on, I HATE that stupid book--stream-of-consciousness writing only worked for Virginia Woolf, and thank God, unlike Joyce, she wasn't under the delusion she was getting paid by the word). If you read this, Lorri, and you are fond of James Joyce, forgive me Dear One. I just don't dig the guy at all. Give me Steinbeck any day--good, short books that pack a punch and get to the point--well, except for The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, but man, are they worth the time you spend wandering around.
Well, now I've made myself want to crack open a book after all. I brought Phillip Dick's (not one word, Onie, no matter how close the pun is to the tip of your tongue--lol) anthology that includes A Scanner Darkly (which was made into a very cool animated film last year, btw) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which was the basis for the film "Blade Runner."
Have a good weekend, everyone. Take care.
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My dear lady, I wouldn't say a word. :-D
Instead, I'll just say that I like the new layout and, yes, it does match the sofa quite well.
I know you wouldn't, sweetie...I was just teasing.
How are things up your way? Are you buried in snow? It sure was beautiful when I was there.
Alas, not much by way of snow, but it's COLD!
It isn't gonna get out of the teens today, with blustery winds making it feel like it's below zero.
But no worries. Overnight, it's actually gonna drop BELOW ZERO.
I, for one, am loving every second of it, but then, you always knew I was crazy. :)
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