Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Aforementioned photo of Chipper paying his respects to Senator Santorum.

Testing RSS

This is just a little test post to see what's going on with my Friendster RSS feed.

Also to see if I can give a shout out to my AWESOME friend Chipper who posted a picture of himself peeing on Senator Rick Santorum's office. So wonderful.

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And, it apparently works. Depending on your browser.

The Amazing Race rocked tonight. Yes, I'm a geek.

Friday, April 22, 2005

36 Hours

Let me tell you about the past 36 hours.

Wednesday

5:00 pm: Plane flight cancelled due to Mechanical problem.

9:15 PM: Get on airport bus home.

9:45 PM: Arrive at Port Authority, walk home.

9:55 PM: Realize that I left bag with all candles, etc. in it on the airport bus. Run back to Port Authority. Bus is gone.

10 PM-Midnight: Runaround from bus company.

Midnight: Bed. Cat leaps into bed. Nauseating cat hygiene issue (not her fault) necessitates changing freshly laundered sheets.

12:30 AM Back to bed. Bedroom door closed and sad cats on the other side of it.

Thursday

8 AM : Bus company still hasn't found bag. Finally they tell me they'll call me back.

8 AM-4 PM: Work. Need I say more?

4 PM: Still runaround from bus company. Write angry letter to bus company on Firm letterhead, signed "William D. Hawkins, Esq."

7:30 PM: Leave work and go to post office. Post office has screwed up mail hold and I must pick up mail Friday morning.

8:PM: Arrive home; UPS notice. Walk to UPS on 11th Avenue. Wait for package.

8:30: Get package after half hour wait. Thank UPS guy, as this has been the most "right" anything's gone in the past 24 hours.

8:45: Get package home. It's a replacement strap for my briefcase; prior strap broke.

8:46: Strap doesn't quite match.

8:50: Put rice and water in rice cooker for dinner. Rice cooker doesn't turn on. Fiddle with it. Resist urge to throw it through a window. Look at online review site and find out it's a piece of crap (1st one conked out too). Throw it in trash and order Mexican food.

Midnight: Bed. Heartburn.

Friday

6:45 Awakened to sound of helicopters over my apartment. Call 311 (NYC Info). They have no idea.

6:50: I have no water.

6:55: I have FILTHY water.

7:00 I have no water.

7:30. Leave, unshowered and unfed, for work.

7:35: 43rd Street flooded; crews washing mud off of sidewalks in front of theatre up the street. 6 foot gash in pavement and muddy water everywhere. In other words, Water Main Break.

7:40: Pick up mail.

7:45: Jury duty notice in mail.

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So, I'm waiting for: (1) my bag to be returned by the bus company and (2) the meteor that is undoubtedly headed my way. So watch cable news for the second one. I'll try to wave.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Springtime

Today I finally did some electronic housekeeping and revived the blog, cleaned up the website, and also, incidentally, threw out a lot of stuff.

Ran the Roomba (thanks Sa-Sa) and scared the heck out of the kitties. Planned to meet a friend, but that fell through, so did my taxes instead. Meant to go into work, but didn't, so will go tomorrow.

How can you Blog when you don't have much to say? I guess it will come with time.
Much spring cleaning going about. Selling half the contents of my apartment it seems. Not really, of course. I'm keeping the cats.

Still, feels good to get all this crapola out of here.

Gorgeous today.