Today has been Tuesday, December 17th, 2025
It is cold out, but not as cold as it has been, so it’s relatively pleasant. Yancey had just left a little while ago. He was here during his visit, which means sitting on the couch 10 ft away from me and looking at his laptop, and doing work there.

Everyone else was on standby and pins and needles, so no one really stopped by, although Marcus and Yancy had interesting conversations and which I joined in on occasionally

I am attempting the late lunch once again. It worked well yesterday, so much so that all I had was a banana when I came home from work. And that was enough. I enjoyed the late lunch, it was Wendy’s, and it wasn’t bad, probably wasn’t that healthy, but it wasn’t the worst either

Bill and I caught up on Jeopardy yesterday, as well as two episodes of the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth, which I’ve been enjoying and Bill has sort of been watching when he’s not looking at his tablet or phone.

I am thinking of getting halal food for lunch at a later time. We will see how week number four goes with this crew on 6th Avenue and 18th Street, as I said, the first visit was excellent, and each visit has been a little bit less than that.

Yancey is hosting a small get together after work tomorrow, and I am ambivalent about it. That part of me thinks I should go and make an appearance, even though that appearance is about 20 blocks away, whereas the PATH train is less than a block away

The week is halfway done, and as I had mentioned previously, I will be off the last 2 weeks of the year, taking 6 days off and applying them to the four days off as holidays as well as the weekend. It’s not a bad deal for me, I just want to sleep in

Bill is actually driving tomorrow, so that should alleviate some of the sadness that he has been going through the past couple of days. He’s been good at managing it, and I might have overstated his case yesterday It’s not as bad as all that I had said yesterday.

Should I make an appearance at Yancey’s little thing? I can go have a pint, socialize, smile have a hors d’oeuvre which is going to be passed around. It is at an Irish pub, and that could be a good thing, just a hello and a good night and an Irish exit perhaps

The super is supposed to stop by tonight around 7:00 p.m. to fix the sink, perhaps by using the snake once again to unclog whatever it is that is not happening. We shall see how that works out.

I have little or no faith, although part of me does wish I did so I could be happy about whatever it is that needs to be done

Wrong line service

Yesterday I wrote. Today Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, I dictate. I am a dictator. Hahaha.

Well, I got a Christmas card from Elaine, so I’m sending her a Christmas card as well as Annemarie, Brian, and Billie in DC, Meg and Rob, and Julio and Stine.

I am not looking for anything in return, so whereas I used to send photographs with the cards. I am not doing that this year. It seems I had forgotten, and once I had sealed the envelopes, that’s when I remembered, so it’s much too late for that.

Bill was supposed to be on the road, and he is not, so he is disappointed, and I just called him and woke him up from a nap, so I think he’s a little stressed about that, which probably means he is going to be depressed for the holidays, perhaps.

He was depressed for my birthday, and he’s going to be depressed for these holidays, so it’s financial depression, and it’s affecting him adversely, I think. Not that he said anything to me about it

Mike is planning to take Bill and me out for dinner. I am aiming for between the holidays. I am off the last 2 weeks of the year, and I think it’s a good idea we’re looking at the Elysian Cafe, which is low-key and tasty, cozy with good food, and affordable.

Mike has told me that he’s putting away money for that. Elaine has invited the three of us to Christmas dinner, so that should be nice. Mike is happy to be invited, and I asked Elaine if she didn’t come out and say it, but I asked if we could bring him, and she said yes.

One of my Facebook accounts is still persona non grata, and they’re not responding to anything, so there’s nothing I can do about it but just maintain the secondary account, which is actually the first account.

I am listening to remixes of Christmas hits from a CD mix from Harpy. Harpy has nothing to say to anyone, as far as I know these days. It is awfully quiet in the office, which is not so bad, I suppose. I cannot believe this job, though.

I asked if bonuses were coming our way from Jimmy Chile, and he said no, they were not, so it’s better to know than not know.

I am going to have a later lunch, which should be okay with regard to dinner.

I was thinking of a 4:00 lunch, but it’s 2:35 right now, and I’m getting hungry, so I think I’m looking at the 3:00 lunch instead, which is not so bad.

When I get back to Hoboken, I will have to drop off the Christmas cards at the post office and hope for the best. I went to the bibliothèque, where I saw Angel and Deborah making those Bibliothèque patrons quite happy

I just played 2 episodes of the cancelled Showtime TV series, The Man Who Fell to Earth. I bought the series a few weeks ago. Bill has been watching from the sidelines while doing computer things on his tablet and phone

Wrong line service was the mishearing of ‘Roman Circus’ by The Bongos