Long but easy day at work, after did a brief vocal performance I wasn't particularly happy with, ate some tea rolls, then drove home through the breaking humidity. Hard to see.

Parents still stuck in Salem, VA awaiting parts.

Pickles is looking out the window, strange gurgling protobarks.

Pretty stifling in here.

A thick haze has settled on the valley, making of the mountains strange, low clouds.

Summer without a farm share hardly seems worth it, should make an effort to check out more farm stands, probably, though mostly the heat's been making me feel too bleh to want to cook.

Did very much enjoy handfuls of local blueberries as a late night snack.

Dwelling this morning on Law, Mistress of Tyrants; the angry, craven multitudes.

I suppose stupid & crazy is just how we roll, mostly.

It's straight to Northampton for work today as the boss is on holiday. Maybe a burrito for lunch.

My folks are stuck in Virginia awaiting break repairs.

One big board game.

Knee hurts again.

I'm a very silly person.

On with the hot & muggy.

Trying to do a job involving looking at large numbers of lists with impaired vision, it's a blast, everything's taking about twice as long as normal.

Having some more coffee, hoping it helps.

More soup & games.

Muggy, groggy.

Ugh.

Just watched Stage Door, nice little bit of melodrama, that woman hurls self from window to imagined theater sounds bit. Should make a note of it.

Shoulda woulda coulda.

Slowly emerging from migraine fog, should really take Peretz for a walk.

Welcome, Alice.

Early morning haze resolved into a migraine, made for an interesting experience of the always loud garbage collection, on to the groggy, impaired vision stage now, resting with dogs.

L. is being very nice, brought Vitamin Water, sandwich makings, etc. to me on her lunch break. Takes some getting used to.

Did end up watching that Bond movie last night, pretty enjoyable, definitely closer in spirit to the books, not sure if that's really a good thing, those are some pretty creepy books. Vicious, empty shell. Bang, bang.

Joe's Pizza for dinner, yum yum.

Picked up the last Bond flick on the way home, torn between watching it & falling asleep.

Peretz is watching the sunset out my bedroom window.

Happy trails, folks.

Another fun filled day- tasty brunch, riverside dog frolic, superhero movie. Trying to formulate some dinner plans.

Muscle spasm in my lower back, not too bad as those go.

Thirsty.

Nice Chinese was very nice indeed, dragon skin, pea greens, roasted chicken, stuffed eggplant.

After that, fireworks from the roof of the H & O, strange climb to the roof, many tiny holes, harder backwards.

After that, more Singstar.

Now, anime, blogging, sleep.

Going to go for nice Chinese with my mom shortly, she's brought us sticky buns.

Dogs are raising a ruckus.

First time in weeks I've woken up not horribly congested, makes a refreshing change. Trying to decide whether to get weekend work out of the way today or wait until tomorrow morning.

Folks are returning from Maine today, may watch fireworks from roof of H & O later if they actually happen, raining now.

Voicemail from high school chum gloating over the death of Jesse Helms, the poor old bastard. Not that I don't know how he feels- sick, rotten old bastard.

Could use a shower.

Made chili, made chili cheese chimichangas, showered, dressed in all near white, cloud in trousers.

Dog walk, then off to see another movie, Get Smart.

No, really, get smart.

Sleep, glorious sleep.

Could use some coffee, glorious coffee, maybe some food, glorious food.

L. said, as I was finally waking up, "Aren't you glad we aren't moving you out of that basement?" I am.

Got out of work early, had some nice Thai, then came home & took the longest nap I've taken in living memory. There had been some talk of going to see Wall-E at a 3:30 matinee, but L. didn't get off early enough. We went & saw a later one after I finally woke up. Rather enjoyed it, sort of made me want to rewatch Trigun.

Dogs seemed to enjoy my company for afternoon nap.

Catching up on archiving ads to DVD, wishing I had a little server room nap map.

Going to a house show in Gill later, wondering how late Wagon Wheel is open.

Lingering cold symptoms made it difficult to get up, dogs helped with timely alarm clock supplementation.

Last night, watched Pat & Mike, Revenge of the Sith, had dreams confusing the two.

Feeding the dogs, making coffee, thinking about all the stuff I'm not getting done, not much caring.

Beautiful view out the window.

Stormy weather has brought with it renewed sinus discomfort.

Paper looks pretty off new press, still working out kinks, sounds like.

Messing about with antivirus software.

Sleep, always a delicious luxury, seems more so nowadays, should get more of it.

Lazy morning.

Wish Peretz would calm down about the cat.