Monthly Archives: January 2008

Lavender Blue

Well it’s very very cold out today. This morning when waiting for the bus it was 14 degrees. Now it’s probably 19 degrees. A bit windy and that wind cuts like a knife. Work was ok, nothing special and offers very little to write about, but write about it is what I’ll more than likely do. I took my time once again, counting on the fact that a lot of people have this week off. And once again I got in before everyone else. Tomorrow is a scheduled day off though no one knows exactly why. I submitted the days that the office would be closed, following Greg Steven’s instructions and January 4 was on it and got his approval.

Some people are going in, but I’m not. I was wishy washy about it all day, but since I’m not expected in, I won’t be in. I look forward to sleeping in for the next three days. It’s been so cold out that sleeping is great, Bill emits so much heat that it can be overwhelming but it’s comfortable nonetheless. I couldn’t log on this morning and now that I’m back from work, I still can’t log on. Our not so Optimum Online service isn’t connecting and I’d rather wait for Bill to come home and work on it since it’s all through his Mac in the next room. I’m not going to disconnect anything, lest I ruin everything that he has set up.

Perhaps someone with computer knowhow would be able to do it, but I’m not the knowhow kind of guy. It’s a trade off of sorts. I will wash the dishes that he left in the sink last night, and he can set up the wireless connection. I washed away the anger I had about the dishes taking up residence in the sink anyway. I don’t mind (yes I do). I offered to make him dinner last night, not so much to feed him but to minimize the mess afterwards. I use one pot and a colander, he uses two pots and sauce gets everywhere. I cleaned it up last night, but still the dishes sat near the sink. Sometimes he does it before he leaves, but not this morning. But like I said, I can be fine with it. I wanted to make dinner for myself tonight and to do so I had to wash his dishes. They weren’t going to wash themselves.

Now I’m writing on the computer, just posting it might be a problem. Hopefully Bill will be home soon and everything will be alright in our apartment in Hoboken. Or I’ll just forgo the Internet tonight and read, and watch TV. I hope Juan has a safe trip to and from Costa Rica, and I hope Song makes it home to Australia, if he hasn’t already. Sorry to have missed him. Well I thought Bill would be home by now, but it’s been over an hour. I guess something might have come up vis a vis his parents.

I’m watching a VH1 documentary on Acid, part of the Drugs Years series. It’s pretty good, but doesn’t make me yearn to do that again. I did it, gained some insight as it was an experiment. Mostly it’s all a bunch of hippies though. I just thought about Andrew Loog Oldham’s comment from his memoir about how he feels the sixties ended around 1966-67, which was when things all went hippie. Up till then, for Oldham at least, it was all about flash and looking sharp.

Well I’m back online and everything is OK thanks to Bill. Hip Hip!

And a happy ending that’s not costing you $10.00.

Never My Love

Oh it’s really cold out. Cold enough to go to Costa Rica. I’m not going obviously, Juan is though. I wish him well despite being envious. It’s freezing outside in Hoboken though. It wasn’t so bad yesterday, though I had only gone outside once. Perhaps it did drop, but I didn’t feel like finding out. I stayed in and watched Kiss Kiss bang Bang, starring Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer. It’s a snarky detective movie and pretty funny. Downey has a great delivery, which is usually the same in every movie, he being the master of snark, or at least his writers are.

For me yesterday was all about nothing. When Bill was around we watched the Law and Order marathon on one of the cable channels. We got sucked into a three episode arc, then Bill went to work and I was left watching the start of yet another Law and Order episode after which I could take no more. I was even searching online for character backgrounds which shows Bill’s influence on my viewing habits. He also asked me to set up the DVR to record tonight’s two hour episode featuring the introduction of Jeremy Sisto formerly of Six Feet Under.

Last night when Juan bluntly came over, we watched an episode of The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman starring Laura Kightlinger on IFC. I thought Juan would get a kick out of it and he did. We watched another episode after that which I recorded, then watched Blue Velvet which Juan had never seen before. Still a classic movie, perhaps David Lynch’s best, though I do have Inland Empire from Netflix just waiting to be played, I just need to find the time for a proper WTF moment to actually sit and watch it. It’s such a dark movie with totally over the top performances by Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper. The soundtrack is superb with Angelo Badalamenti arrangements mixed with some classic early rock and roll, country & western and rhythm and blues.

Juan asked to watch an episode of Weeds after that and I had to oblige. Then I kicked him out and went to bed. Bill came home as I slept and said I purred when he got in bed, which is a lot better than the jackhammer snoring that Bill does. Woke up reluctantly to the sounds of the Association, singing Never My Love. It seemed to go on forever as I lay there, half awake listening to the production which was quite good, but enough was enough and I eventually found the snooze button.

It felt like a Monday though it was Wednesday. The placement of New Years Day screwed up my sense of the days of the week even more. It’s been like this since last week. It’s not bad but it is confusing. I think a lot of people either took off this week or had it off, as it was a fast ride into the city, and I was taking my time. I usually leave the apartment at 7:00 but left around 7:15, still getting to the office somehow on time, before everyone else. I was hoping to leave early since half the office was expected to be out, but just about everyone was in. I didn’t mind as I set things up both physically and mentally to insure a pleasant year for everyone.

What happened or didn’t happen last year was done. It’s in the past, nothing to do but focus on the year ahead. I hope I do well and I hope you do well. Have a good new year! I think I missed Song while he was around. Sorry Song!