Just back from excursion down the valley for work & shopping. Early dinner at Rein's, pastrami on rye did me a world of good. Got a Carnegie Deli cheesecake to take home, anybody want to come by & have some? It'll be thawed tomorrow...

Also went by the Table & Vine for fancy cheeses & alcoholic drinks, wish that were still in Northampton.

May or may not go out to house show in Turner's shortly.

Big time sleep catch up. Hurray.

Going to get up & move around.

On getting up to go get some pudding, realized I was far too sleepy to enjoy going out for music. Going to stay in & continue watching postapocalyptic soap opera with dogs.

L.'s gone to Northampton for music, may go to Turner's for more after, envy her energy, sort of, though blanket is nice.

Ribs were extremely tender & tasty, not all that spicy, a pleasant background burn, earthy, rich. Butternut squash was spicier actually, love that spicy maple sugar stuff. Also ate the rest of that applesauce Toste sent us, tangy, almost sharp.

L. made more butterscotch pudding, going to have some of that in a bit.

Snowing again, a holiday whenever you want.

Oven braising some short ribs, recipe here. Skipping the black beans, going to make some butternut squash instead.

Think I'm going to some show or other later, though I'm pretty sleepy.

Plodding through end of week monitoring & tidying at work, didn't sleep well last night, had scary dreams, overslept, rushed out of house head still full of scary dreams.

Slowly returning to the real with the help of coffee, but the work I'm currently doing is such as to cause the mind to drift. Yuck.

Want tasty lunch, somewhere, somehow.

Tired & irritated.

Leftover curry was, however, quite delightful. Made some more raita to have with it.

Thumb hurts where I cut it earlier chipping away ice.

Woke, checked my email, learned that twice-rescheduled conference call had been canceled.

Car was half embedded in snow/ice from neighbors' roof, took about an hour & a half of shoveling & rocking back & forth to get it loose.

Last night was strangely busy, got done with work, went out & shoveled the walk, went back in to read. Got call from L. saying she couldn't get into the driveway, went back outside, plow had filled driveway, covered entire sidewalk with icy slush.

Went back inside, did dishes, L. started making these orange/pumpkin rolls from the latest Gourmet, then I made a chicken curry with egg noodles for dinner, ate that, watched a little Top Chef, then went out to try to remove slush before it totally solidified. That took quite some time.

Came back in & collapsed, was given hot rolls with butter, really lovely & fragrant, would like to try them with a suitable soup. My mom called, told her she should make the rolls & have them with a suitable soup.

Extremely stiff & sore, feet won't warm up.

Snowing hard.

Conference call for early this morning was, of course, cancelled & rescheduled for early tomorrow morning.

Have had a pretty enjoyable morning working from home, horrible db problem notwithstanding.

Just shoveled the walk, L.'s gone to work for a bit.

Just back from seeing some music round the way, nothing too earth shattering, but a pleasant enough scene, drinking ginger ales & captioning Neil & Cory's drawings with ads for Malt-Os, the ring-shaped treat that tastes like malt.

Should really go to sleep, have an early conference call if you can believe it.

Realized that I've managed to miss out on the lion dancing again this year.

Anyway, happy new year, anyway.

Decided yesterday that beard was getting to be too much & trimmed it, now have abraded neck.

Long day, head hurts.

After work, brought projector & ps2 to H & O for Singstar party. Got free Korean, yip, yip.

Would like to be asleep.

Realizing that if I wanted to/was able, there are enjoyable shows to go see pretty much every night this week. What to do, what to do?

Work, work, work.

Bleh.

Would really like to be asleep, head hurts too much.

L. made some really delightful rolls earlier, twisty & salty, salty, salty.

Going to try to sleep again.

Late night with the Indian food & the Trivial Pursuit, slept in again, pretty great.

For the first time since the violent puking episode, my stomach feels normal. Attribute it to the delightful raita. Maybe all the ginger helped, too.

Sometime I should take a week off & just sleep & sleep & sleep.

Stayed out late catching some pretty enjoyable alt country type band in some godforsaken spot out in Belchertown. Slept in. Spent most of today making a variety of Indian foods for dinner party later at Karen's.

Just took a very hot shower. Ready for action!

Peretz is chewing on a bone on the floor.

Woken from less than satisfying afternoon nap by closing credit music of dumb scifi movie I'd put on to help me fall asleep.

Then the dogs started barking loudly.

Have a bit of a headache, looks like snow, not supposed to snow much if at all.

My dad's home from the hospital, apparently a bit swollen.

Just extracted email from former professor from the corporate spam filter, happens to the best of us.

Have very dry eyes, toe hurts a lot less, excited to get out of work early, eat nice lunch.

Spent my drive down here brooding about stupidity & madness. Hopeless but not serious.

Home again, remote access setup was complicated by worker's home computer's lack of a functioning CD drive (had two nonfunctioning ones). Finally got that done, drove home through weirdly dense traffic.

L.'s at the gym, I'm resting with bone chewing dogs.

Was plugging along at work, sore toe, feeling ever more droopy, went & got some barley flour soup & beef momo, feel sleepier than before, if anything, but also fabulous. Should really work on getting more ginger in my diet.

A couple more hours in this sleepily humming room, then I'm going to go set up remote access for a worker with a sick kid. Will be nice to be back out in the cool air.

Want a server room nap cubby.