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i see how that works
2001-06-07
1:44 am
i haven't much felt like writing lately. mostly because i get sick of hearing myself say the same rubbish over and over, and i can only imagine it must be worse if you're not me. even if i don't say it aloud or write it down somewhere, it's running through my head non-stop. i just can't escape myself. someone who i read regularly mentioned recently that he often has imaginary bits of diary-writing going on in his head. i do this, too, and it drives me batty. i wish i could just shut off my brain sometimes. "shut up, brain, or i'll stab you with a q-tip!" i had great plans yesterday. of course i made all of them before i knew it was going to frigging flood. argh, what a pain. fortunately it did eventually stop raining, so the water level never rose too much higher than it was in the picture i put up last night. once the rain was over, the only real worries i had of it actually getting into the house was when buttheads in SUVs or big trucks drove through and made waves that would roll towards me. after several hours with no more rain, it eventually drained off. if we get a lot of rain, and quickly, i pretty much have a river running through the middle of my garage. i had some kitchen furniture/stuff in there that i bought a while back, but have never actually put into the kitchen because the kitchen floor needs to be redone first. such a pattern is evident in my entire existence: i can't do this because i need to do that first, and i can't do that because of something something. anyway, some of this kitchen stuff is unassembled - meaning it was in boxes, and sitting on the floor. so as soon as i realized that the rain was not going to let up, i had to get in there and attempt to move them all before they were ruined. the reason they're on the floor to begin with is because they're incredibly heavy and there really isn't any better place for them to be. unfortunately the parts of the boxes that were actually touching the floor were already wet, so i couldn't really pick them straight up or everything would fall out the bottom. not that i actually could pick up anything that heavy, mind you. i did manage to eventually get them all into the actual house and out of the garage, but i then had to rip the rest of the boxes away and take everything out to make sure it wasn't wet. some of it was, but i dried everything off and nothing looks damaged. i think i got it in time. much luckier than others around here, i'm sure. i don't watch the local news with any regularity, but i do check the local weather at least once a day online. i hadn't seen any warnings about the storm before it hit. guess i should check more often, eh? normally the local media goes cuckoo if there's any kind of tropical storm out there. if nothing else, it's an excuse for them to promote their hurricane tracking charts. apparently this one was nothing more than a blip on the radar 12 hours or so before it thrashed us. the brunt of it rolled through here around rush hour, so i was oh so glad i don't have a normal job that would have left me sitting in that mess, too. granted, i don't even have an abnormal job, but i'm not discussing that right now. so now i have all sorts of pieces of wood and glass and crap sitting around my living room. the boxes are history, so i don't really know where i'll store this stuff now. obviously not in the garage. i can't imagine anyone stepping foot into my house right now without an expression of "huh?" when you step inside my front door, you're pretty much in the living room, which is occupied right now by an unassembled bed frame (mostly in boxes - except for the slats, which are just there bundled together on the floor - but the boxes are big) and bits & pieces of unassembled kitchen furniture laying about. this is in addition to the stuff that's always in my living room. oh, and my bed/couch that is not in my bedroom because i'm still not done with the painting in there. i think the current state of my living room is a metaphor for my life right now. the official announcement came monday (i think) that the aeros are now in the AHL. i've heard rumors that ticket prices will actually drop next year. hooray for minor league hockey! random movie quote: "i think this boy's cheese has done slid off his cracker."
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