Friday
The day started with me sleeping in. No, wait. That should have been “oversleeping.” There, that’s more like it. I overslept by forty-five minutes. Which means that I slept through coming to get me for the carpool. And waiting, when I didn’t come outside. And blowing the horn.

I missed it all.

After I abandoned the idea of taking the car, driving myself to work and then coming back to take to work, I woke her up. She drove me to the office. The workday – all five hours of it – was good. Post-work, Kate, Perry and Max swung by to get me and we headed to Four-Color Heaven, colloquially referred to as “Dr. Volt’s.” I picked up the things (plural, this week!) in my subscription box, along with a few assorted back issues.

I came home, ostensibly to finish cleaning/straightening before and Cain arrived. Instead, I pretty much passed out for two hours. I was apparently far more tired than I had thought. But, I managed to do everything I wanted to do… except cleaning the HCC. Yet again. *sigh* Oh, well, there’s always tomorning for that.

and Cain got here a little after 8:00. After freshening up, we headed to meet the rest of the Clitorati. It was a good turn-out, with the usual off-key conversations. One thing that I need to change: I’ve gotten out of the habit of drawing – or even sketching – while at Borders. I really need to get back into that habit. We headed to Cheers: North and were met with a disappointing revelation: Vivi has been transferred to the Applebee’s at The Gateway. We’ll have to make it a point to visit her there.

And that’s how I spent my summer vacation Friday.

Stray Toasters

  • I’ve discovered a couple of other songs in my mp3 rotation that make me bounce/wiggle: The themes from The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son.
  • By way of : Comic SWAT, from Something Awful
  • “They’re clean animals.”
  • From an old Tonight Show episode: Copper Clapper Caper, featuring Dragnet‘s Jack Webb.
  • By way of : StumbleUpon
  • One of the guys on my team at work is introducing me to the world of StrongBad and Homestar Runner. I have to admit: It’s pretty amusing stuff. He linked me to this today. There’s even a screensaver that you can download, so your computer can look just like StrongBad’s. (Click on the gull to access the wallpaper size.)
  • Here’s a petition to… ban the Internet.
  • “Ecru.”
  • Fuckin’ UDoT. Apparently, when they say “We’re finished” with respect to a road construction project, what that really means is: “We told you that to make you happy. We’ll be back in (fill in the appropriate time) to do MORE work in the same spot(s).”

Have a good – and safe – holiday weekend.

Namaste.