I want to say “look where we are” here. The trouble with that, if we’re being entirely honest, is I can only really look at where I am. I can count on my fingers, literally my fingers, the number of people I know that I’ve seen in person in the last year. I have purposefully […]
I’m settling in to life in my new locale pretty well but for one exception. I have spent the last 20 years of my life in places that are profoundly flat. Center City, northeast Philly, the shore. Hell, even the places I vacation like Florida and Vegas. Very, very flat. I remember on my walk […]
I finally had my slightly-delayed actual housewarming tonight, which meant the kids and their parents and grandparents over for homemade pizza and shenanigans. This has blown an enormous hole in my efforts to keep the place clean, and if I want to go to bed with my housekeeping conscience intact I’m going to be doing […]
Taking my trash out this morning was awesome. For one thing, I don’t think I mentioned, yesterday was my first day out of the walking boot since my ankle surgery. My big walk was from my parking space back to the apartment, about two blocks. I think when I go to the store today I […]
I have, at the very best, a sordid history with housekeeping chores. Now, in fairness, I have lots of sordid histories, most of them emotionally-unavailable brunettes. In this case, though, I feel like the word “sordid,” with its connotations of dirt and squalor, is much more fitting than in most of those cases. Toxic codependency […]
In the interest of expanding my knowledge, I went to a new Costco today. There wasn’t a whole lot of reason other than this other one was exactly the same driving time as the location I normally go to, and I also had to stop at the regular grocery store on the way home and […]
This week started out with a visit to the dentist, which is not as bad as it sounds. In fact, in a strange way I sort of… like going to the dentist? That’s not to say that I enjoy the experience of being worked on at the dentist. My overall adherence to dental health best […]
I really need this stuff with the old house to be over. When I was there yesterday to take (what I thought was) the last of the stuff to the storage unit, I looked around at how much was left to do/clean up. I thought about my leg for maybe nine seconds before saying, “fuck […]
The word came today that Mike Shinn died. Mike was a few years behind me at LaSalle. I’m not sure if he was a freshman when I was a “senior” or if he showed up the fall after I left, but we ran with the same crowds. We had drifted out of touch a bit […]
I am only just now starting to realize where the time goes. Before closing up shop for the weekend at work, I was talking with one of my colleagues about my near miss with Peter Mayhew at Celebration Chicago. I started by saying “I was supposed to get Mayhew’s autograph at Celebration last year…” before […]