Yeah, I started something yesterday, I did, let's see if it lasts.

Karen turned the waterbed down, and last night I thought I was gonna freeze to death. Luckily, she's warm, so we slept much closer than we usually do. Nice, but not really a substitute for a warm bed. For one thing, she moves. And takes the covers with her, dammit.

So, I got up, showered, shaved, etc. and jumped into the truck. Whoops, the clutch didn't take it out of gear when I tried starting it. Put it in neutral with the foot on the brake, OK, started. I decided to pull up a ways and get it on level ground and then try to clear the frost.

Wouldn't go into first. Pumped the clutch. Grind.

Wouldn't go into first. Or reverse.

No clutch.

Turned it off, got out.

Remembered that I hadn't put it in gear when the door hit me in the leg.

Jumped back in, hit the brake, put it in reverse.

This time, it stayed put, it did.

Went in and told Karen that I was taking the car.

Had I mentioned yet that it was ZERO F with a wind chill well below that? It was.

Went to work for a pretty much ball-buster kinda day. I was running the console, which means lotsa phone-answering and scut-work when there are only three of us there, one on the console, one in the room and one doing the actual running.

In other words, not much sitting, but a lot of getting up and down and being irritated.

But, as usual, I survived, and I even got off on time. O'yeah, I had a no-lunch and an APC meeting in there too.

And tonight I can't get my guitar in tune. I think that my tuner needs a new battery or something, but I couldn't even tune it with the keyboard. Probably just a lack of patience, though.

And since 21:00 is my bedtime, I'm gonna cut this short, and just mention in passing the RNC is fulla shit about Moveon.org. A real case of the pot calling the kettle black, heh.

I'm not really a democrap, more of an independent, but I'm really beginning to hate the repiglican strategies. Muckrakers, one and all.

And I do remain 100 percent against anything BabyBush does, good or bad. He does the bad things naturally, and the good things only for show. And the conservative media (hah!) report the bad things in the back pages, of course, and the good things are front=page above the fold. Jackasses.