Being in an antsy, fidgety mood, I don’t think I can muster the focus to write anything too long, but I wanted to update this thing with what I’ve been up to, if for no one else but me. With no further ado, some of the details that provide the reference points of my life:
- Friday night there was snow, the first snow I have seen since I was last in New York several years ago. I left work early at 1:30am and drove down 360 at about thirty miles per hour. I could only see about twenty feet in front of me. I stopped along the way to try to help a woman in a Miata push her which had gotten stuck. Somehow she had slipped back going uphill and had gotten mired in the snow wet grass. She kept giving the car too much gas and with rear-wheel drive was just not having any luck. Pushing it didn’t seem to help much so once she arranged to get pulled out by one of the highway trucks I took off. The snow was great and an unexpected treat. When I got home I made a miniature snowman on my old car that is parked on the street. Then I went over to wake Jody up so she could see it before it melted and to give her her presents for Valentine’s Day. We played for a little while but then it was getting cold playing with snow so we went back inside. I love the snow.
- Saturday we went to see “The Triplets of Belleville” this neat little French animated film that made me want to start drawing again. I liked how everything had this grotesque quality to it. Jody and I bummed around for a while at the mall afterward and then went out to Fry’s to look around. We then went to the Arboretum where we ran into Sara and Jason who were on their way to see….The Triplets of Belleville.
- Sunday we went to see The Phantom of the Opera play at the Bass Concert Hall. We got all dressed up which was fun since I don’t get to do that often. A woman came up and told Jody that she looked ‘absolutely stunning’. The show was great. I’ve never really experienced anything like that. I really liked the way they did the production, with the flash paper and the set pieces and the fog. After the final curtain when all the actors came out there was a standing ovation that lasted so long that I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much time clapping. And the music, of course, was great too. I would like to see things like that more often.
- Yesterday kinda sucked as I was in a bad mood. I had a meeting with one of my clients that went well and then I basically came home and played UT 2004 until I went to bed after midnight. I did find a copy of The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne at Half-Price Books, though. Generally, ‘Selections From the Essays’ is what I’ve come across so I grabbed this one I was looking for books by Otto Weininger or The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton which I didn’t find until I went to Book People today.
- Today, I didn’t do a whole lot, but I did make twenty bucks raking leaves. I needed the exercise and it was kinda fun in a weird way. I have to do the other neighbor’s leaves soon too.