Well… I’m sitting here watching the Red Sox. They are about to lose an out on a replay review. I’m feeling easily distracted tonight and well… the band now has a tumblr, a twitter, an ello, and a soundcloud.
I can’t help it. I am the king of social media nerds.
Last night I cut myself while chopping vegetables. This morning I cut my chin while shaving. Both incidents combined resulted in about 3 gallons of blood loss*. It’s been an ugly couple of days at my house. I expect that I will make a full recovery, but I am still worried about one thing…
…I think the cat can smell blood. She was looking at me funny this morning, almost as if she suddenly saw me as a walking lunch menu. I think I am in trouble.
*When I say 3 gallons of blood loss, I really mean that there was probably enough blood to almost fill a really small eye dropper. Almost.
The paw sticking out is what makes this view awesome.
I was thinking of practicing the guitar tonight. You know, noodle around on a few songs from last night’s rehearsal. Maybe come up with a new riff or two.
No. That was the plan from… before.
That was the plan from before I sliced a chunk out of my left middle finger while dicing up some pepper to put in the quinoa.
Oh quinoa! You are a cruel south american mistress. I bleed for thee. I bleed for thee!
At least I did until I washed it out and put a band aid on it. Stupid fat middle finger always getting in the way. I guess I’ll spend the evening watching Bob’s Burgers on Netflix instead of playing the guitar.
Oh well.
Here’s a god awful horrid sounding cover song from last night’s band practice. I’ve now played this thing with two different bands and I haven’t a friggin clue who played it originally.
A combination of today being a Massachusetts holiday and the kids needing to be in school early has placed me about 90 minutes early for work with only 10 more minutes to go before I get there.
On times like these I stop at the rest area next to route 16 and have a little breakfast while watching Netflix.
Right now the rest area is swarming with Massachusetts State Troopers. I’ve never seen so many badges in one place. This can mean only one thing:
It’s Marathon Monday.
No one had better mess with Boston today. No one.
I just walked through the kitchen and something out of place outside the window made me double take.
3-4 houses down the street, two deer hangin’ out in the middle of the road, all casual like. Just doin’ their thang.
Lunch outside on the patio anyone? It’s not patio furniture but it works, and we have The Beatles.
You cannot see our back yard from the street. Therefore when it’s time to do yard work almost all of our focus goes to the front yard. I do mow the back grass now and then, when it gets really long, but spring and fall clean up usually gets passed over.
Not this year!
The wind tends to swirl around the house, so almost all of the leaves that drop in the back yard end up pushed against the house. For the first time in two years all of the leaves are gone! It’s a miracle! My step son and I did most of it yesterday, and this morning I went out early(ish) and finished it. This soil is seeing sunlight for the first time in 8 seasons. It’s incredible! My step son and I then started tackling raking the rest of the leaves. We’re about 2/3 finished right now. The trick for the remaining third is that there are some huge downed branches blocking the way. I think I can move the biggest one, but it might require the purchase of an axe. We’ll see.
If we don’t finish this today then I will finish it next weekend and then start on cleaning up the front of the house. If nothing else, it’s exercise that will help with the whole weight watchers plan. There’s an upside to everything!
A couple of hours ago there was an issue with one of the computers in our house. It was an old iMac that one of the kids uses and it needed assistance. My wife and I snuck over to the Apple store to get a piece of hardware to help. While we were there we got to touch an Apple Watch.
Yeah… oh babie. We got to fiddle with the watch. Just a little bit. We couldn’t try it on because we didn’t have an appointment, but we got to futz around with the screen a little.
You know, it’s bad enough that my step son and his father have already ordered watches for themselves. I already knew that once the man started coming home with an Apple Watch on his wrist that I would be overwhelmed with temptation. Unfortunately for me I didn’t even last that long. I’m already in fully tempted mode!
This is awful! How is a ridiculous fanboy like me going to say no now?
I don’t want one.
But I want one.
But I don’t want one.
But I want one.
But I don’t want one!
But I want one!
Oh the horror. The horror.
