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Read it and weep! I’ve published and now, I be damned! There are some diamonds in this coal. Proceed with cautious carelessness.

Bedsitter

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Well last night was Tuesday night and actually the first night since New Years Eve that Bill was able to sleep in our bed. He came home around 8:00 and was very happy to be home. I greeted him with a hug and a kiss.

Almost immediately we fell into our old routines, he sitting on the couch and me sitting where I am now, in front of the computer. Also like our old routine, we watched Scrubs from this past season which is now on ABC. And we had seen both episodes already.

I was surprised that he went to bed before the old stand by, Lawn Hors D’oeuvre SVU. It was a decent episode, but it lacked the made up lyrics that Bill and I used to sing over the theme song.

I watched the Daily Show after that, more of the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer showdown, of which Jon Stewart has been hitting home runs with a ball that might as well be shaped like Jim Cramer’s face. Jon Stewart was on point.

I tried watching the Colbert Report but couldn’t keep up and soon went to bed. There was Bill, fast asleep and snoring. That kept me awake for a while but soon he stopped and I was able to fall asleep to the sound of the recyclables being dragged to the curb a little after midnight.

Getting up was out of the ordinary. It used to be that Bill was up around 5:30 to head to the gym but he was up around the same time as me after both of us kept hitting the snooze button on our respective alarm clocks. He was gone before I was, and I made my way to the bus stop.

One aspect of getting up earlier is the fact that it isn’t as crowded at 7:00 in the morning than at 8:00. Lot’s more people but still I found a comfortable seat and finished the article in the New Yorker about David Foster Wallace and the depression that eventually caused him to take his life.

It mentioned a few of his books, except for the book that I received as a gift about 5 years ago from Sarah Fortner, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. I tried reading it but found it too dense for my taste. Sad that he killed himself, the medications he was on didn’t help him at all.

I remember a quote but can’t figure out who said and I probably have it wrong anyway, but basically I relate it to how if a person would take their medications to deal with their inner devils, their inner angels would never forgive them.

The inner struggle that takes place and can cause creative urges. I still have the David Foster Wallace book and one day I’ll get around to reading it, perhaps with the proper dose of medication.

Work was quiet for me, and I wound up being more of a DJ than an office manager. Not much going on, Tom Chin out, Vivek still on the road. Since I wasn’t busy at all, the day crawled.

No ‘real’ errands to run, so I found the time to go to Sym’s where I bought a nice Ben Sherman tie, a skinny tie for $15.00, originally priced at $30.00. I plan to wear it tomorrow, Thursday which is the last day of my work week.

Bill is coming home tonight again, which makes it the first time since October where he’s spent 2 consecutive nights here in Hoboken. His mom is being monitored in Beth Israel hospital and she seems to be doing better.

Bill has a stress test on Friday morning so he’ll be staying in Stuyvesant Town Thursday night so he can get to the test on time with a minimum of fuss. Me, I’m looking forward to Lost tonight. Probably won’t be as focused on Sawyer as it was last week, but I do hope it will be as good as it was.

I’ve been playing the War Child- Heroes CD and so far it’s pretty good. Rufus Wainwright does an excellent cover of Brian Wilson’s Wonderful/Song for Children from Smile, and Franz Ferdinand’s live cover of Blondie’s Call Me is killer!

Beck’s cover of Dylan’s Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat isn’t as good as it should be. He changes the line, ‘I saw you making love to him/you forgot to close the garage door’ to ‘you forgot to close the Pill Box door’ which makes no sense at all.

Damn thetans!

The Classical

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I don’t know how it happened. Things were going relatively well this week and I was looking forward to leaving early, seeing Bill for a few minutes and stopping by Farfetched to see Lois and Susan. Alas, the best laid plans etc.

First off, the other night, I’m on the bus going home, my cellphone rings, I answer it. It’s Vivek asking me about some expenses we talked about. I told him I would have them ready first thing in the morning.

I go home and send myself an email reminding me about the expenses. I remembered talking to Vivek about them, but don’t recall anything coming of it. He talks a good talk but rarely follows through.

Like a few months ago telling me about some side work for me. It never materialized. That was fine, I still have my regular gig.

Still when I came to work on Thursday I proceeded to tear apart my desk looking for something that doesn’t exist. This morning he was in at 11:00 which was different. Usually in around noon. Anyway I corner and say I don’t have the expenses and is it possible that he never gave them to me? No, he insisted that he had.

So I continue tearing apart my desk. An hour later the phone rings, it’s Vivek. He has the expenses, he had them all the time. That’s it. No apology. So I started working on his expenses which were hard to decipher. I gave up and decided to finish them next week.

Heard from Bill today, heads were rolling at his job. 18 friends of his got the ax. He was angry and I tried to calm him down via chats online. When we last left off he was closer to the window than to the ledge. 50,000 people laid off today. Circuit City liquidating their stores and laying off 34, 000.

I am now on Bill’s insurance since I was fed up with Oxford insurance. The other day it was reported that United Health care which owns Oxford had worked out a legal deal with New York state regarding that the independent board (Ingenix Inc.) that reviews out of network claims (and rejects 20-30% of those claims) is owned by United Health care

Conflict of interest anyone?

United Health care will close Ingenix Inc. and spend 50 million dollars to create a truly independent board. That was done by Andrew Cuomo who should be the next Senator from New York, rather than Caroline Kennedy. I’m no hater of Caroline, but Andrew is better qualified. But then again why the fuck should I care? I live in New Jersey!

I am just so glad this day is over. It couldn’t end soon enough.

Here’s some carbon monoxide information. I spoke with Julio last night on the phone and asked him about carbon monoxide detectors. He told me to look at the date on the back of the detector. I did and it was manufactured on July 28, 2001.

These detectors have a life span of maybe 5 years so I wasn’t in danger of carbon monoxide poisoning, but more in danger of going insane with the beeping every now and then.

Tomorrow, I have to get a new carbon monoxide detector. I have one that functions but the apartment is supposed to have 2.

RIP Andrew Wyeth
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