I think that I will dispense with saying "more tomorrow..." because there always will be until there isn't. And everyone knows that already.
21 December. Winter solstice or whatever. The time when the sun starts coming back from the north... I've always wondered how the hell that works... shouldn't it start getting warmer then? But it doesn't do that at all. It's gonna get colder tonight even and with a big north wind. And three months of winter weather. We've done had two already.
Damn planet, anyway.
Work was very pud last night, but I really needed some action to keep the adrenalin going. I got up yesterday about 10:00 or something like that and Karen and I had a pleasant day together... we started out to do some shopping just after it started snowing. Snowed hard for an hour or so, probably two inches of new stuff.
I had some checks to put in the bank, and I'd gotten a $20 gift certificate for Sams, so I put those in my pocket, thinking that we'd go to the bank then to Sams.
And that's what we did... but I forgot about the gift certificate until we got home.
After hitting Sams, Karen and I stopped at Applebee's and got some cheeseburgers... I really like Applebee's, always good service and good food. Well, almost always...
When we got home, there was a message from the bank. They don't take gift certificates. Well, dammit, I knew that, it was a friggin' accident! O'well, I've done stupider things.
I laid down for a nap at about 16:45, right before Karen went to pick up Lacee. Almost asleep (in that hypnotic state) I heard the door slam, and little feet hitting the floor like elephants. More little feet than I expected... Patrick was here too.
Anyway, that pretty much blew my chances of getting a nap. When that happens, it's all over.
Karen and Kim and Lacee left to go shopping, and shortly after they left, Tyler came over from Lawrence to burn some CDs... he's been uploading files through FTP for a coupla weeks. It was really good to see him, gee, he was sober and everything.
He'll be going to Texas on Friday to spend xmas with JD and his mother and then come back on Monday, I think he said. I gave him his present and JD's, not even wrapped, we'd just got them at Sam's this afternoon. I got mom the same thing, so I can't say what it is for a while.
Now for about ten hours of sleep...