May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
bob dylan was also born today. i’m sure that every year i find this out then promptly forget about it again. bob and i will probably spend the day doing very different activities. mine is going to involve quite a bit of cleaning out the garage and moving stuff,...
May 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
i should be helping mom and dad pack boxes RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. but first, a few moments of peace and quiet. except honey the cat is rubbing up against the computer and occasionally tries to walk across the keys which isn’t so great for the typing. the...
May 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s what i’ve been doing. saturday night we got on a bus and headed to st. louis to see the JERSEY BOYS, playing at the fox theater. the play was outstanding, thrilling, after it was over i couldn’t decide if i wanted to go out and buy the...
May 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
no time for posting anything today. too busy painting painting painting. things are a little better now. there’s a corner of the living room that is fit to live in, isn’t covered with any kind of patching dust. christine CALLED ME this morning, which is...
May 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, you probably don’t remember this, but way back in 2004, when i started writing this, i had a BIG ISSUE with SPAM COMMENTS. i was suddenly getting BAZILLIONS of comments which were actually ads – for TEXAS HOLDEM, plus all kinds of online gambling,...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
we’re sitting here quietly on the couch in our completely and totally pulled-apart house, window partially finished, large prints lying against the couch which is piled on top of itself, boxes and tools and debris of all kinds everywhere. kevin is reading a...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
christine ASSURES me that these photos are going to get bigger somehow. i can’t figure out how to make them bigger. she said to post them now anyway, so i am, with reservations. this shows kevin getting winnie the cat out of the crawl space after he managed to...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
i need a vacation after my weekend. we roared up to sterling IL on friday, picked up kevin’s parents, and drove to the Sauk Valley Community College, where kevin received his ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR award. it was presented during the graduation ceremony, which i...
May 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
i have to go very soon, but the doctor FINALLY CALLED about my back. no nerve pinching is going on, which is excellent. but there’s some bulging between a few of the disks, but i don’t have to have surgery which is VERY GOOD NEWS. no packing or painting...
May 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and the painting continues. yesterday mom and i finished a first coat of the LONG hallway and this morning she’s coming over to help with the second coat. then i’m going to help her with her packing. i did take the time this morning to upload some photos....
May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
christine has been working on it today, paolo in LA is now trying to make the compressed videos better, things are HAPPENING. i’m uploading photos as i type. anyway, this isn’t EXACTLY how it’s going to look. but you get the general idea. maybe you...
May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30 this morning and HAD TO GET OUT OF BED. DID OBAMA WIN INDIANA? nope. damn. i just wanted him to BEAT hillary. but even though she eked out a tiny little victory in indiana at least he TROUNCED her in north carolina. this is from a story about...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok i guess it’s not that late; it’s 10:44 p.m. but it feels like about one a.m. because of all the exertion today. i was looking forward to going to mom and dad’s house to help pack instead of staying here and painting, but now i long to paint instead. i guess what i...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
see how crazy things are around here, i totally forgot to post that exciting announcement! no, the alumnus of the year isn’t me. it’s KEVIN. the very first college he went to called him last week to say that he was “head and shoulders” above...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
and if you see christine today, please CONGRATULATE HER on a JOB WELL DONE! many many changes, plus more to come. she figured out all kinds of things, like how to get all the archived stuff with photos to this new site, even though it’s something that has been...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
giving the room a second coat of edging was fine. it took about an hour. no problem. but then i spent 15 minutes using the roller, which went really fast, but then i was in severe pain for a few hours afterwards. randy and i went to target right after i stopped...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
today is dad’s birthday; we were going to join him and mom for lunch at a restaurant in the little town of salisbury, but we had too much to do. hopefully they’ll have a lovely time; the Official Birthday Celebration will be tomorrow night. dad wanted to come over to...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
you think of a hole in the wall as a divey little restaurant that serves unexpectedly great food, or an intimate bar that not a lot of people know about. around here, it is an actual HOLE IN THE WALL. not a little hole, a BIG hole. on wednesday afternoon kevin decided...
May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
finally FINALLY here are some photos of the roof work on saturday. jim was sawing and sawing the jagged edge of roof. because he was crouched like this for quite a few hours, i think he was pretty stiff and sore when he finished. and of course he finished, because...
Apr 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
right now kevin is working RIGHT OVER MY HEAD, caulking some of the many many many nail holes in the living room. i should be HELPING HIM RIGHT NOW. i woke up at 5 a.m. mollie jumped up in bed with me, nuzzling my right side and lying down against me. winnie then...
Apr 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
randy and jim are UP ON THE ROOF right now. things are hopping around here on saturday morning. i went to panera to buy them bagels, and was amazed at the huge number of people there. hordes, throngs of people. all sitting around noshing and drinking coffee. the line...
Apr 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
i just re-read the post from this morning (WHICH SEEMS LIKE ONE MILLION YEARS AGO) and noticed that i typed “over-jealously” instead of “over-zealously.” this strikes me as funny now. i wasn’t actually being overly jealous, nor not actually...
Apr 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
and the boxes are piled up high in the hallway. one of our bedrooms is now COMPLETELY EMPTY. this is amazing; we called it the “music room,” but no music has been played there for a very long time, because it was mostly just packed with guitars in cases....
Apr 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
i found all those missing photos late last night. after i’d downloaded them onto my computer last week, i apparently then promptly sent them to the trash. i’m not sure how i managed such a quick and retarded act, but at least i could dig them out of the trash. here’s...
Apr 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
it was an earthquake early friday morning, a BIG one for around here anyway. it was so big that it was the LEAD STORY on the NATIONAL NIGHTLY NEWS on friday night. maybe there weren’t any other stories out there. it was kind of funny to read accounts of the earthquake...
Apr 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve been sitting here for about 20 minutes, it’s now 4:45 a.m. on friday morning, i’ve been up since 2:30 because i just couldn’t sleep and suddenly the house kind of shook and then it shook pretty hard and i’m pretty sure we just had an earthquake. here in ILLINOIS,...
Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve been sitting here in the chair in the living room, drinking chocolate hazelnut tea which doesn’t really taste like chocolate but it’s still delicious with fat free creamer, although i meant to grab the chai caramel chocolate enchantment tea WITH caffeine because...
Apr 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
you might recall that i’ve had a huge following in china ever since some woman there put up a photo of our vegetable garden, saying it was an example of a “sustainable garden.” hmm, i hadn’t actually thought about the huge chinese interest, in writing...
Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
i’ve been keeping up with the protests about the olympic torch, but haven’t had time yet today to see the furor and foment over the actual running today in san francisco, except i did read that it was lit in some secret warehouse, and that in addition to the people...
Apr 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
1. the show. which is now OVER. WHOOPEE! it’s nice to have a whole entire night to myself. tonight this involved PIZZA at AMY AND JIM’S HOUSE, and a good time was had by all. 2. going out to eat. today i realized i’ve gone out to eat SEVEN TIMES in the last FOUR DAYS....
