T's gone again. Sun's about to come up. Thinking I should get up early more often.

Thinking about how much I despise bureaucracies- kiss up, kick down; overvalue the expendable, easily replaced fat at the top; undervalue the people who know things & get things done. All pretty repulsive & one might expect, given the stupidity of it all, that in the long run such organizations would get what's coming to them. Experience proves otherwise. Might have something to do with the fact that our society as a whole is pretty much that sort of organization, writ large. One might expect that we're going to get what's coming to us & pretty much every day of the week, we do. Half expect to turn on the TV & see Brezhnev giving a weary pep talk.

Loading up on stimulants, getting myself combat ready, destroy, oh boy.

Early to bed, early to rise, bleh.

Need to pee.

Have beginnings of what I expect to be quite an impressive headache.

Peretz is in full on crazy snow mode, eating snow, running around crazily, rushing to the edge of buildings and pacing the sides intently, unwilling to come away, eating more snow, needing to go back out again soon to pee, eat more snow.

We're lying in a pile, nice & warm. T should be showing up shortly.

Cold world out there.

Mac 'n' cheese is baking.

Think I've settled on The Nutty Professor & Altered States as the movies for next dinner party, think I'm also going to take it easy on myself for the dinner theming, going to simply make dishes with ingredients exclusively from very close by and very far away, probably a mix in each dish. That's Sunday evening, come if you like.

Going to be a long day tomorrow, need to take T to airport at four thirty in the morning, boss is working from home, so will probably be fielding a lot more stupid questions than usual. I'll try to remember my whip.

Making mac 'n' cheese.

Working from home is pretty great, getting lots done, listening to music, eating a big bowl of Berry Berry Kix.

Lunchtime walk with P through fluffy falling snow also nice. Sad you weren't walking through it along with us, oh well, can't have everything.

Some people have all the fun.

My impression was that the place was so awash in various bodily fluids that it couldn't possibly burn, don't know what they were worried about.

Ball peen hammering near my desk at work proceeds apace, planning to spend a good bit of day working from home.

Listening to new Fat Worm cd-r, first track mixing interestingly with neighbor scraping ice off his car windows.

Thin coat of snow, looks pretty icy, but snow nonetheless. Oh, New England!

Didn't get much sleep, head's in a bit of a state, what else is new?

Decided against calling the cops, knew I would, not much use for cops. Can deal with things myself, mostly.

Ginger ale is a wise counselor. This Polar brand's got nothing on the Harmony Springs Pale Dry, still helpful.

Neighbors in front singing, banging on walls. Maybe it's because Miss China won the Miss World competition?

Considering calling the cops on them. Not big on calling the cops on people.

Having some ginger ale & thinking about it.

Depressing icy precip continues, want snow.

Just out exploring slippy parking lot with P, multiple near falls, wheeeeeee.

Had long talk on IM about depressing state of things with long out of touch pal. State of things pretty depressing.

Nice to be lying in pile with pup regardless.

Decided that getting a burger & a malted on Sunday was more important than maintaining respect for mere protocol, therefore went out in the sleet & got them at the Friendly's on King Street, I know, I know, chain restaurant, in town, been there before, etc., etc. Big on setting up overly complex, largely arbitrary rule systems for myself, violating them when it seems appropriate, sometimes at whim. Hail Ganesh!

Spent my time at Friendly's thinking about missing friends, going to Friendly's on family trip to New England the summer E.T. came out, getting those sundaes with Reese's Pieces, they still make those, I think.

So, burger & malted more important than where I get it, keeping one friend alive more important than sparing another's feelings, keeping systems functioning more important than their being elegant. Try very hard to keep my priorities straight.

Peretz wants out into the ice event. Очень Перец!

Spent my morning playing with returned camera, cold enough out that compulsion to take distorted photos was under a little pressure from intense finger pain, compulsion won out, of course.

After that, went & met Rob & Alie at Lone Wolf for brunch, lovely to see them, food was delightful as always, after eating we made a quick visit to the Smith art museum, hadn't been there in ages, nice book art exhibit up, took more pictures where allowed to do so.

Left museum just as snow was starting to fall, it's stopped again, supposed to get a good bit of it, maybe 2-4 inches. Looking forward to it, a bit worried about T getting back from NYC OK, predicted freezing rain causing electrical outage.

Busy schedule precluded getting my weekly burger & malted, rather enjoying pretending to be snowed in with pup. If I could think of a place in town I've never been where I could get those items, I'd probably go there for dinner, don't think there is such a place.

Tim came by, gave my special magic crappy camera back, I took the pictures & such he took in Europe & put them on a cd for him. Also played him some Coasters.

He told me about an epilepsy benefit at the Elevens & despite the music not really being at all what I'm into for the most part, somehow convinced myself to go check it out, turns out I just can't stand being at the Elevens, not sure what it is about the place, but I hate it there, visited with the Thrillpillow folks for a bit, then split. Always glad to support epilepsy.

Being at home again is lovely, probably more lovely for having gone out, may have some more coffee milk.

Pasta with matriciana sauce was very pleasant. Realized that between this & that, I hadn't had time to restock on local soda, therefore went on quick beverage run to the new Big Y, Polar sodas, milk, coffee, Autocrat coffee syrup. Bring on the snow.

Cold out, fingers & head hurt. Cold lingering in my sneakers.

Thinking about the coming solstice.

Making a matriciana sauce, still no word from old college chums.

Could use a nap, mustn't let sauce burn.

Lovely sunny patch on tree I can see out the window.

Went & did some work at work. Bit blowy out.

Waiting to hear from college chums in from out of town.

Pleasantly crisp out.

Also, word to the wise, Joel is a passive aggressive creep:

"hey. if i was anywere near your house it had nothing to do with you.if its a bother thats too bad, but i realy dont have any intention to bother you.ok. its takin awhile to return some cds but frankly, you did a terrible thing to me.you were very mean and dismissive and calculating.but times gone by and im not realy that resentfull or hurt anymore.i understand that you might not feel safe and you have emotional problems.so i see this and it is usefull understanding this about you .so im not like super mad at you anymore though iam super discusted over what you did to emily.but yeah you are right about the six or nine cd's i have of yours up in the attic that you lent me five years ago . and i'll return them.sometime."

Also might be forgiven for thinking it would be a bad idea for anybody with severe emotional problems to cohabit with someone with attitudes like that toward people with emotional problems.

Anyway, Joel, no need to worry about returning my things, I can buy new ones.

Slow morning, coffee, music, walking the dog, talking to my mom about medical insurance.

Had a funny idea for a website, may actually make it.

Light dusting of snow, more tomorrow evening supposedly, makes me happy & sad at the same time. Beautiful things better shared.

Going to go for a walk, I think.

Drifted off watching TV, woke a little while ago from scary dreams, parched. Had a couple of glasses of water.

God, are people ever stupid.