OK, getting in the swing of things. Still not getting enough sleep.

Tropical storm on Sunday, seemed incredibly mild out our window, catastrophic flooding, etc.

Ordered a steel basement bulkhead yesterday, home improvements proceed apace.

Back to morning sudoku.

Little ominous outside, think we're doing beach trip anyway.

Have had 'The Long Black Veil' stuck in my head since yesterday's wedding. Also find myself dwelling a bit too much on the grotesque fantasia of American politics, the things that pass for realism, common sense, objective measurement, just horrible.

People should really spend a little time each day sorting the genuinely obvious out from what they've just been told is obvious.

Giant amount of work continues to loom, wondering how I'll get anything done.

Finally got some sleep. Feel much better for it.

L's cookie project is done, house slowly cooling.

Considering Sunday beach trip.

Woken early by whining old dog, weird new meds. Compact fluorescent fell from a high ledge & popped, slipped on my hazmat suit & grabbed the shopvac for a quick cleanup.

Been watching A Taste for Death. Brings back riding the Watertown-Cambridge bus back in 89, ghoulish lady across from me reading that as we rode past the striking AT&T workers. These days the mothership is called Verizon & the P.D. James is streaming to me over the Internet. Still no flying cars.

L's taking the next couple days off to make wedding cookies, not the Mexican kind, the LGBT friendly kind, some dipped in chocolate.

Kid was going to come visit, didn't, no gig, big drag.

Tomato sandwiches.

Scifi book group last night, had fun panning Robopocalypse, terrible.

Strange reconfigurations of my relationship with food, UPCs, glycemic indices, etc.

Am now 1/2 time IT for the local co-op. Hopefully no one will shoot me in the head.

Beautiful day after a run of unpleasant mugginess. Aroused by the prospect of too much work.

Doctor visit continues to generate medication regimens, yip, yip.

So, went for a physical yesterday for the first time in ages, blood sugar of 425, no more soda for me, whee.

Work stuff seems to be coming together, hurray?

A hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea.

Bored now.

Sharing Doritos with Pickles, etc.

Looks like rain.

Too darn hot.

Cold shower provided ~20 minutes relief. Old man Peretz is lying on his side on the floor, breathing deeply.

L & I may go explore a VT swimmin hole suggested by Jimmy Z in a bit.

Ice cold drink.

Late night drive back from White River Junction, haze on the mountains, car pelted with a hail of tiny insects.

Fixed a minor issue on a web server, watched 'Betty Boop for President', had some buttered toast with strawberry jam, a glass of water.

Peretz had missed his evening walk as I was out & about so very early morning one instead, fox loped across the road ahead of us, bit unnerving.

What an odd day, woken at 4 AM by my mom telling me my dad was bleeding profusely from his mouth & who was my dentist & where was the nearest ER. Went & met the folks at the ER. Sat around for way too long, then, when my dad tried to sit up, alarming fainting episode complete with rolling eyes & spasming leg. Turns out his bp was 79/50 or somesuch, oy.

Anyway, he's been in the ER all day having saline & such inserted via tube and some sort of repair done to his bleeding tooth extraction cavity. He would like to be let loose already. Dogs have had enough of it.

Me, I got home from ER dawdling/breakfast with mom around 9 & did some fitful sleeping. Cold coffee, cold peach pizza.

Been sleepy, lots of rain, little to say.

Nice trip to VT yesterday for peonies & sausages & heliotropes. Parents are coming to visit tomorrow.

Could use more work.

Playing music later, should really do something to perk myself up.

Went to the island to see the kid graduate yesterday, weird. Rainy drive down, sleepy drive back, feeling muddled.

Kid seems happy, it's pretty great.

Didn't have enough coffee this AM, just made some more, it's pretty great.

Another day, another dental appointment. Old Man Russell.

Tomorrow, Old Man Peretz's annual vet trip, how he hates it.

Also tomorrow, vocal duo with Liz Tonne, jeepers.

Happy to have avoided tornadic devastation, sorry others did not.

OK, so, no band practice, tornado warning.

Stuffy in the house with all the windows closed.

Working on backup script, too drowsy to be working on backup script. Weird warm days.

Band practice at new spot, time later. Hopefully folks will show. Should play some shows.

Stupid lazy summer.

Nasty cold, slept for about 14 hours, blech.

Didn't get funny little part time job I'd been in the process of applying for since January, double blech.

Should be doing QA, instead, going to watch TV & maybe fall asleep.

Just watched Marwencol with L., really affecting, so many strange echoes of poor dead Patrick. & in Kingston, where the kid is working next year. All very odd, parallel universe stuff. Beautiful photography, wish we could buy some.

Dejah Thoris & her time machine, red planet, take me home.

Been playing so much music, more practice tomorrow, more show Tuesday, feeling a little otherworldly, it's nice. Wish we had a tour planned, wish I had enough of an idea what I was doing with my time to plan a tour.

,,,

Part of playing so much is ending up staying up really late, like old times.

Maybe another hibiscus spritzer, more scifi TV.

Interview this afternoon, not actually nervous about it, nonetheless feel as though I am.

Been thinking about fruity drinks a lot lately. Aguas frescas, etc. Woke up early thanks to above-mentioned nervous-without-actually-being-nervous state. Bit cold in the house, dogs are snuggled up to each other.

3 shows within a week, must be some kind of record.

Yard work.

Got back extra late last night from lamish gig in Everett, fun hanging out with band & playing anyway.

Just scraped my arm on our broken bulkhead, guy coming by Monday to give estimate on new bulkhead, porch repair, etc.

Work work is slowly building up, hurray?