Did I leave the house during the beautiful fall weather yesterday? Yes, but only briefly. Went outside to take out the trash and see if there was anything that needed doing in the yard, but I’m in pretty good shape for winter. I just need to mow the lawn one more time once the trees have dropped their leaves, but that hasn’t happened yet. I also talked with the neighbor for a while before coming in for the evening and puttering around the house. Finished up a few little jobs inside and that was the day.
My friend who’s studying interior design was maybe going to stop by yesterday, but didn’t. Turns out there was pressing homework to be done. Ah well, later in the week. Such excitement in my life at the moment! Today looks pretty good. A call from the payroll people this morning, and then if the sky clears from its currently overcast state, I think I might take a walk down by the river. It’s about the right time for it to be pretty down there, and I need to get out more.
- Cory says Casio has cool cameras, terrible service — buy something else. I’d agree, and I broke my S100 the exact same way he did. I just didn’t make the mistake of buying another Casio. Sorry, dude. [boing boing]
- Bright (well, actually dark) and early this morning the lawn maintenance service for the apartment building down the street was out there with a boom car thumping away as a prelude to firing up their leaf blowers and “lawn vacuum” (yes, it sucks) and I found myself wondering if a guy could load up a focused sound weapon with Anne Murray. For some reason I suspect the set of people who drive boom-cars and the set of Anne Murray fans has an empty intersection.
- I think I’ve seen The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity before, but it was time for a reminder this morning.
- I’ve started a long writeup of my year in Melk in 1980-81. It’s not even half-done at the moment, and only has a couple pictures, but I’m hoping to finish it up before the big reunion St. John’s has planned for next June. If nothing else, I need to get a ton of pictures scanned in. That’ll make a nice project if they day remains dreary.