HAPPY BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH TO...
Nikki Everett (Nov 3) - Carl Sagan (Nov 9)
Adam Sonstegard (Nov 12) - Chuck Welsh (Nov 24)
Devon Norris (Nov 25) - Darlene Norris (Nov 28)

Friday - November 1, 2002

OLD DIARY (2001):  Skip started his job @ Wash U. tonight.

12:10a - The new month begins. The cold weather encroaches upon us. I enjoy it in many ways, yet I already look forward to Spring!

12:12a - I am on beer #6 tonight. I will owe one to Skip. I will also regret this on the morrow. But, it's Friday... that's good.

12:14a - I am watching (incidentally) William Shatner's "Fright-Night Marathon."  It is Hallowe'en, or Samhain, or All Hallow's Eve, or Alhallowmas... etc. I consider it to be a most "holy" day (with reservations on the meaning of "holy").

12:30a - I have done about as much as I can on this page tonight.. <sigh> I am getting very drunk.

Ick... this morning was rough.

8:38p - Lisa Z. got into a tiff with G.B. today and ran out in tears. She ended up going home early (leaving me with the phones... oh, well... I can handle it.) I figured out how to work the voice dialing on my phone today! Last night I figured out where the "voice key" is located and how to record voice notes. I love gadgets!

8:58p - I was intent upon going out and having a nice meal and/or going out to "party" some tonight, but I fell out of the mood. I am sitting at home waiting for an order of Chinese food to arrive. I ordered a truckload of food too. One order of "Emperor's Chicken," and large order (quart) of Hot & Sour soup, an order of steamed dumplings, and an order of chicken wings. That should feed me for about a day! He should be here any minute. It has been over 45 minutes (I know... I set my timer).

9:01p - I think I will go back to the kitchen and make another Ciclón Margarita (my version). I bought a bottle of Ciclón... a Bacardi product. It is a dark rum infused with Blue Agave Tequila and Lime. It's quite tasty. I am mixing it with a Margarita mixer.

9:09p - The food arrived. I am going to run down and stock up on some more of this Ciclón! Esta muy bueno!

9:27p - I bought 2 more bottles ($35.00 !! ... yikes!). I don't feel like eating yet... I crammed the food in the microwave to keep it warm.

9:29p - I finished the first book of the Mallorean this morning and have begun book #2 now.

9:51p- I just weighed myself for the first time since I "quit dieting" (about August 1st).

I am STILL 223 LBS!!

9:53p - I ate the steamed dumplings. They were delicious! I will have to order those again.

9:56p - I just figured out why Barnabas keeps coming out into the living room when I go to the restroom. He's thirsty! He had no water in his dish in the bedroom and there was no water in the dish in the kitchen. Again! I seem to be the only one watering Kira and Barnabus. They were both thirsting very much!

Saturday - November 2, 2002

OLD DIARY (2001):  Went out to the Complex tonight.

6:08p - Jack is on the way over to pick me up. We're going out to dinner. Probably to Vietnam Palace. I spent most of the day with Diana. We went down to Grand, wandered through some shops, went to "Le Petit Paris" (the French Restaurant). Then on to Jay International where I spent about $70 on groceries, including 50 pounds of rice. We took a cab home.

It's raining outside tonight. I hear it's sleeting in some areas. I expect we will likely see snow by the end of the month.

9:31p - Yep... we went to Vietnam Palace. It's nasty out. Drizzling rain.

10:16p - We went to CompUSA after dinner and I ended up buying a new Epson 820 color printer. This one should produce some good quality photo prints. I also bought a CD holder and some extra ink. The ink for this printer is cheaper.

Sunday - November 3, 2002
Happy Birthday to Nikki Everett!

11:47p - I finally got my laundry done today. That was my major function all day. I also sort of got my new Skating page started. It has not gone far yet. I have used the new printer. VERY IMPRESSIVE! The print quality is awesome... looks like a real photo!!

11:49 - That's about it for today. Laundry, TV, eating and some e-mail. Mostly BOR-ing! It has been hazy, cold and drizzly out. I thought it was snowing this morning, but it was just a haze.

11:50p - The kitchen is clean too. I cleaned up, again. I am starting to get irritated with Skip in this regard. I did not want to spend my day cleaning house, and did not do as much as needed to be done, but what is the use when he just messes things up again. It is not my job to clean up after him. Grrrr...

Monday - November 4, 2002

8:01a - I just got up. I slept poorly. I had disturbing dreams all night. One involved Kira getting lost, then she was barking and snarling at the back door. Then 3 wolves were walking across the front yard. I think they were wolves... one was walking on its hind legs... just lots of weirdness.

Tuesday - November 5, 2002

This was a cold & wet day. Dennis did not work today. I don't know what is going on (in my own office) but it really bothers me.

I got my flu shot this morning over in the Sea Shell Lobby. The line went all the way to the Becker Library. It took about 40 minutes to go through the line.

I put my check in the mail to "Jim Casey" for the Zamenhofa Bankedo

I went to LZ after work. I saw Kevin, Arnell and Xavier tonight. It's nice to know people.

Wednesday - November 6, 2002

1:20a - I went down earlier and took food to Don, the homeless guy. I feel good about it. He NEVER asks for anything... so I took him some good food.

1:23a - Okay.. more than "past" time to go to bed!!

7:41a - I was up at 7:29a sharp. Had some strange dreams again. Nana was in one of them. I rarely dream about her.

7:44a - I have some leftover rice and some eggs warming up on the stove. It looks like some sunshine is trying to force its way out this morning. I turned the heat off on Sunday ... I don't know if Skip has noticed. I have been sleeping more soundly. I wonder if the the A/C unit has anything to do with that?

Lisa worked last night. She says had 3 calls.

7:46a - Time to walk Kira...

7:16p - This has been a long day. I think yesterday's flu shot is wearing me down a bit. I was about to fall asleep all day long. It was not a heavy day. I only logged about 19 calls.

7:18 - Diana brought over some meatloaf she made tonight.

Just one call on duty tonight, from Dr. Gilula.

Thursday - November 7, 2002

8:44a - It is sunny out for real this morning. It never really made it yesterday. I overslept this morning. And I was having some chest pains around my heart that were worrying me. It seems to have gone away now. I don't like that.

I wend to Talayna's after work tonight. I picked up some banquet room info from Tina.

Friday - November 8, 2002

7:39p - I felt awful this morning. I went in an hour late. I felt better as time went by. I worked through lunch. The RENTGN server went down and was out for about 2 hours, which to down the Barnes-Orders system and IDX Radiology. I am working late again tonight.

11:30p - I only had one call tonight (more than I expected). From Dr. Sanjeev Bhalla. He is going to Thailand tomorrow! Cool! But, he needed to burn a CD to take with him and the CD burning on MIR9 would not work. By the time I was able to page him and he called me back, (about 10 minutes!) he had already received help from Dr. B. McFarland.

11:33p - Diana donated some angel hair pasta & marinara sauce for my supper tonight. I heated it up with some fancy shredded cheese mix on top, and some minced onion. Then I fried up some chicken breast. I was very filling and tasty.

11:35p - Skip is still in bed. Thank goodness he got that cat box cleaned. It was so bad yesterday I could hardly sleep. Maybe that's why I felt sick this morning... probably not... but it was pretty bad. I need to go to Soulard tomorrow if I can, and I need to try to take the Time Machine DVD back to the store on The Loop.

Saturday - November 9, 2002

I was tired and just sat around all day doing nothing. I finally got enough motivation to go out to Talayna's for some beer & wings. Jack & Adam were going by and saw me through the window. They stopped in for a moment. Jack is supposed to be headed out to California apartment hunting in the morning. I went over to Nik's Wine bar after Talayna's before going home.

Sunday - November 10, 2002

I didn't do much of anything again today. I did finally get over the St. Louis Center Mall where I bought a couple of books. Book #3 of the Mallorean series and John Grisham's The Rainman for Skip. Then I spent about $70 at Warrens on various house hold items. Including one of the "Swiffer" mops.

I got a bit industrious today. I took a bunch of stuff down to the cage, vacuumed, mopped the kitchen, did dishes and I also redesigned my Dart Team's web page.

Oh... I also sent a letter to Sheikh Arshad Anwar in Pakistan, my on line buddy for some time now.

Monday - November 11, 2002
Honorable 2nd Indoctrination day
to vItpach ZantaI-jubchuQun!
Qapla' batlh je!

10:11p - I did not go to work today. I felt awful. Y'one che sh'iibaaske Y'aadh' uut' uchm' uut' inkdr' astl' aitne. Y'idench' iinm' uut' inkdr' os' achme. I ordered Chinese food here at the house. I got some more of those steamed dumplings. They are tasty, and the sauce that comes with them is great.

Tuesday - November 12, 2002
Happy Birthday to Dr. Adam Sonstegard!

Today was a fairly typical day. Applix (or "Crapplix" as we so fondly call it) went down shortly before I left from work

Our new dart season started tonight. We played at Mag's. I won one game of 301. I think Marty took out one game too, but we lost the overall bout (as usual). I will be interested in seeing the scores.

Wednesday - November 13, 2002

OLD DIARY (2000):  "Terry W**** and Theresa came over for about 5 minutes tonight. On the way home Terry was mugged at knife point. He's OK."

9:48p - That what Terry told me, anyway. Looking back on it, he probably faked the whole thing. I had loaned him some money that night, as I recall. Can't remember the details, however... I bet I put it in my on-line Diary. I'll have to check. Yep... see this site to review.

9:52 - I am on duty still... off in 8 minutes. Sitting at home, checking voice mail and watching 3 hours of X-Files.

Thursday - November 14, 2002

Yet another "blah" day. I worked late... opened my first beer a little early... but there were no calls. I ate too much for luch while continuing to read the 2nd book of the Mallorean. Blah, blah, yada, blah.

Friday - November 15, 2002

Yes! Finally! Friday is here! I have no desire to wish my life away, but I am always SO happy to make it to the next Friday! Skip paid me $240 today and I took home an extra $135 in OT. So it was a profitable day, above and beyond the usual payday. The "bum under the steps" (Don) is becoming more problematic thought. I bought him some food tonight. Some stuff that would last, like salami, cheese and such. I then cooked him some food. Cabbage, rice, boiled eggs... etc. I felt good about myself. However, he now seems to think there is some kind of sexual bond between us. This is not the case... and I am so saddened that he thinks so. He really tried to "put the make on me" tonight. It was very upsetting. I only wanted to be friendly and offer him some food and warmth.  Oh well, I should be used to such nonsense by now!!

OLD DIARY (2000):  Attended "Service Plus" seminar.

11:16p - The show "The Vampire LeStat" (the one with Tom Cruise) is on TV at the moment. I remember that I first watched this in Vero Beach. It was the weekend that ST:Insurrection came out (or which ever one it was with the Borg Queen... I think I am wrong). We were all in costume. We got free pizza. We also got to watch any o fthe playing movies for free. One of the other movies that I remember was "The Santa Clause" (starring Tim Allen).

11:21p - I am so OVER this. I want to go out and DO something. I have a lot of money in my wallet... and much more in my account... and more money coming it. I should be able to really enjoy my life!!

11:34p- Sr. Don me causaba la gran tensión.  Er bildete sexuelle Fortschritte auf mir. Ick.

11:38p - I hope that under the suncomposed, they will be able to understand and forgive our posisiton. Such is life....

11:48p -  Eeeuuww... I'm drunk!!!

Saturday - November 16, 2002

I am quite drunk.

2:47a - I just woke up. I cooked a pot of rice & catfish... I had forgotten that I did that.  I have no idea what I was trying to say earlier about "the sun composed"... etc..

2:49a - Skip just got up. I forgot he was here! I guess that's my cue to go to bed. Ouch... I feel a sore spot forming on he left center of my tongue.

3:22p - Skip and I went to Soulard Market this morning. I am tired today, and my tongue is still hurting. It's colder today than it has been, but its not too bad.

3:26p - "Mrs. Doubtfire" is on at the moment. I've seen it many times, but its still amusing. I may go take a nap here shortly though.

9:19p - I took no nap. Not much of a napper. I went to Union Station instead. Had some beerses and Hooters and read some more of my book (still on Book #2 of the Mallorean). Crystal was my waitress. I sat at the counter. I filled out one of their "Fan Cards."  When I spend $1,000 with them, I am supposed to get a $100 gift certificate. What ever... it cost me nothing.

9:21p - I am bored... gotta think of SOMEthing to do. Oh... I picked up an umbrella on the train tonight. Nice to get one BACK for a change!

9:24p - I think I may wander over to Calico's Restaurant.

11:38p - Just got back from Calico's. The bar tender was "Joe."  Danielle is no longer working there. She is now working form some collection agency (or so Joe, he bartender, told me).

11:40p - I may go to Faces now.... if I can manage it. I am a bit intoxicated. :(

Sunday - November 17, 2002

I drank too much last night. I only drank beer, but too much of it. I felt rotten this morning and have had a touch of a sore throat all day. I just ate all day long. Skip went to Schnuck's and I went back to bed. I did get up until around 12 noon.

Mi devus iri al la Esperanto Kunveno hodiaux, sed mi sentis tre malsana! Mi ofertis miaj bedauxrinoj al miajn Esperantajn amikojn pro cxi tio, sed me fakte ne povis cxeesti! :(

Keri im'd me tonight for help with her homework. Her biology homework. She is doing a report on cloning. How interesting... I really do find the topic fascinating. I was a zoology major (Mr. Dennis Pruitt was my teacher - 1976). I had aspirations of going for my doctorates in Microbiology and one day creating the worlds first clone. Hmmm... already done. Oh, well.

Monday - November 18, 2002

8:28a - I is COLD outside this morning! I slept solid last night, but had lots of weird dreams. Of course, I can't remember most of them, as usual.

I picked up some books for Skip today. Becky brought them in. There were several Joh Grisham books and I thought a couple of them Skip may not have yet read.

There was a Ram's game tonight. I guess they must have won. There were fireworks going off (and Kira was barking). So I guess they won. I really don't care.

I finished book #2 of the Mallorean today at lunch. Will move on the book #3 ... the one that took forever for me to buy.

I got several things accomplished tonight. I finally opened the ZIP file that Dave sent me of the pictures from the awards night. They were seriously low grade, but I enhanced them as much as I could. There's only so much one can do with a lo-res pic though. I looked awful in the couple that I was in. I am getting so fat... I hate seeing pictures of myself. It's very depressing. I used to be so "photogenic" ... now I am just "photo-disgusting."

I responded to several emails on my Esperanto list. One from Josxito (Yoshito) in Japan. It involved Esperanto, Japanese and Korean, with a copy to my friend, Dr. Kim (from Korea), partly in Korean (with my pathetic Korean...).

Tuesday - November 19, 2002

12:17a - The fireworks from the game have ended. Kira was going whacko there for a while. Mi havis 4 bieroj, kaj nun mi trinkas mian duan rumo-k-Kokon. (Sed mi uzas "diet Dr. Pepper" ... cxar mi havis neniom da Koka-Kolon. Mi diris al min mem, ke me ne drinkus neniom cxi-nokte, sed mi malsukcesis.

12:26a - Mi pensas ke mi devas iri liton nun. This is going to be such a long week. Kaj mi timas ke gxi pli logigxas posta cxi tiu nokto de drinajxo!

12:55a - Okay... I am going to regret his... but I am doing housework. The floor needs vacuuming. I am putting the dishes on now. The counters are soaking. I wish Skip would do this a little more. My place was never so dirty when I was by myself, yet he tries to blame it all on me somehow....

1:17 - Dishes on washing... incense is buring... cabinets are soaking... the floor is cleared. The trash bag is ready to be taken out and I am getting the vac now.

1:21a - For the record. I just put a new vacuum bag in the cleaner. There are 3 remaining. These are the vacuum bags that I ordered on-line over a year ago.

1:36a - For reasons I cannot determine, both of my PC's seem to be connected to the internet!!! I have no idea why. They would not connect yesterday... bu today its working.... go figure!!!

1:37a - Vacuuming is done. Dishes are washing. time to scrub the counters.

2:21a - Dishes are "drying" now. Floors are clean and vacuumed. I put the undercoat from my bed on the sofa tonight. It probably will not make any difference. I have almost finished this bag of cheap Fritos.

2:24a -  The cabinets & stove are very clean.

I slept poorly. The Rams game kept me awake to start with, with the yelling and honking, whistling, a band was playing at LaClede's and someone kept up a steady monologue on a microphone/speaker. Then around 1:30 they started shooting off fireworks (not very good ones, either), which caused Kira to start barking. Sheesh. I did not care for football before... I like it even less now! Why on a Monday night? (or Tuesday morning)...?

I felt AWFUL all day. I thought about cancelling out on the dart game tonight, but I stuck to it. My game was bad though. I was so tired and since my glasses are broken, I could not see well. I didn't realize how dependent I have become on my glasses for playing darts! I will have to see about getting them fixed soon.

We stopped by White Castle on the way home.

Wednesday - November 20, 2002

Kira had a White Castle bacon burger for breakfast. I made some leftover rice. It came out pretty good. I used some of Skips Mozarella/Parmesan fancy shredded cheese. I will have to buy him some tonight.

The equipment arrived today for the major server swap-out taking place at work this weekend.

I felt so much better today, even though I really did not sleep too well again last night. At least I got MORE sleep. That was the main thing.

9:21p - I am on duty again. Tomorrow night too. I made chicken & rice casserole "thing" tonight. I will have to make something like this for our next office function. Probably Thanksgiving.

9:23p - Jack and I are planning on doing something Friday evening. I can't wait... I am getting SO BORED! The routine is starting to get to me. I am easily bored anyway.

9:24p - Well... almost time to check the voice mail again. So far, only one call tonight, and it did not require a call back. But I did respond with a rather lengthy email.

Thursday - November 21, 2002

10:45p - Today was a pleasant day, though it started getting cold outside. I hear its supposed to snow on Monday ... brrr.  I made rice as I often do, for the Help Desk crew this morning. But this time I made a baked rice with cheese and whole egg on top. I was very good! I will have to make a similar dish for our next luncheon ... which I hope will be next week for Td ay.

Mi ricevis telefonvokon de "Scottie too Hottie," la ulo kiu mi renkontis je la Samhajn-festo je la domo de Tad kaj Deana en la urbo de "Cahokia" (Kahokio) dum la pasinta monato. Li estas tre belEGa viro! Li demandis al mi se mi povis iri meztagmangxi kun lin... sed, malfelicxe, me ne povis :(  Tamen, li volas ke mi eliras kun lin kaj siajn amikojn cxi Sabato! Jes! Mi tre felicxas pri cxi tio!! (Sed... mi estas dika kaj maljuna. Mi ne scias kial li elirus kun kum min. Eble li havas

Friday - November 22, 2002

12:06a - We are swapping out servers this weekend at work. This is a MAJOR undertaking! The equipment arrived yesterday... they were ahead of schedule as of this afternoon. A Dell Rep arrived from out of town to work with us yesterday. Well... I just learned a few minutes ago that they won't work!! Something was screwed up at the factory level, if I understand correctly. This is a major embarrassment to us. At least we found out and can notify people BEFORE the weekend gets here!

12:40a - Well... I am up too late. I need to crash so I won't be dead tomorrow night when I go out with Jack. I hope he is in the mood for sushi!

8:10a - I just at this moment saw my first advertisement/trailer for the latest Star Trek movie, "Star Trek: Nemesis."  It opens on December 13th. The second "Harry Potter" movie came out on the 15th of this month, but I haven't got to see it yet. And Spielberg premier,"Taken," comes out on TV on Monday, December 2nd.

8:15a - I am on schedule this morning for a change! YAY!

Jack and I went to the Loop tonight. We returned my bad DVD. They did not have the same DVD availalbe, and I could not find one that I liked to take its place, so they gave me my money back on it.

Then we walked over to relatively new little 'Thai Seafood Restaurant.'  We wondered why they called themselves a seafood restaurant since they did not have all that many seafood dishes.  It was a fairly typical Thai menu. They were not that great on service, even though (or maybe because) they had about 3 people waiting on us. The waitres brought our food out and could not figure out who to give it to. There were 3 other tables besides ours. Two of them had obviously finished eating as there were dirty dishes on their table. The third one had just come in and were looking at the menu. She went to all three of those tables before figuring out the food was supposed to go to us! The food was good though. I had a little too much, so I took half of mine outin to-go containers.

We left dinner and went over to Jack & Adam's. Adam was not home, but I left his birthday card there for him. I also left the rest of my Thai dinne for him. We called a cab and went out for a few drinks at Southern Bell. We ended up at LZ where we found Adam. I left shortly after Jack & Adam around 1:30a and took a cab home.

Saturday - November 23, 2002

I got up late. Skip was cooking some beans with the leftover ham that he cooked earlier this week. It smelled delicious. I went next door and fed Diana's kitty cat. I will be taking care of him all weekend.

I hope my outing Scott is still on for tonight, but I left his phone numbers on my desk at work.

I took a nap for a couple of hours which were really beneficial. I sent Scott an email saying to call me before six if we were still on, but I didn't get a call, so I left around 7:15 and went to Talayna's. I had a couple of pitcher of beers and then a couple of glasses. I was about half tanked when my cell phone rang. It was Scott. I ended up meeting him, Jason, Denise and Mindy and Hooters where we had some more beer. Our waitress (whose name I can't remember....maybe it was Heather) turned out to be my neighbor living here at Gentry's on the 8th floor. That was kind of wild. So then we all went out to there house. They just moved into it a week or two ago, so it was a bit of a disaster. No decorating has been done yet. We sat around chatting and half way watching TV until we all conked out. I fell asleep in the arm chair. Jason played on the computer all night (while listening to me snore, I suspect).

Sunday - November 24, 2002
Happy Birthday Chuck!

We got Scott up around 7-ish and he gave me a ride home. Mindy and Jason joined us. I invited them up to see the apartment and they walk Kira with me. They said they were going to go to Shaw Botannical Gardens to day and invited me to go. But I was too tired. I call Scott later and he said he did not get up until 3pm. They did not go to the Botannical Gardens after all I guess.

I took Kira for her walk and went next door to feed Kitty-bear, but the chain was on the door. Diana was home. That took me by surprise.

7:56pm - I am watching "The Wizard of Oz." Very nostalgic memories!

Scott and a girl I never met named Amy, stopped by to visit for an hour or so this evening. They were here when Skip left for work.

Monday - November 25, 2002
Happy Birthday Pamela Devon Norris (14)!

My stomach hurts today. I think its all the beans I ate yesterday. I feel bloated.

Tuesday - November 26, 2002

We were supposed to play darts tonight, but the team we play against dropped out. That is fine actually, because my stomach is still huring. Lower abdomen actually. I dont think its bloating from the beans any longer. It may be a bladder infection. I picked up some cranberry juice and will force it down me. I don't like cranberry juice!

Scott stopped by again this evening unexpectedly. Jason, Mindy and Denise were with him. I like Scott, but I wonder what his intentions are. I sent him a long email about this. I kind of wish I hadn't sent it, but sometimes it is best to cut through all the BS and simply ask.

Wednesday - November 27, 2002

2:41p - My abdominal pain is worse today. I called in sick and have been sleeping most of the day. I will be working from home between 4:00p and 10:00p however, so I will only use 2 hours of sick time.

2:43p - Skip came back from Schnuck's with Jack a little bit ago. It looks like we are going to do Thanksgiving today.

I worked my six hours tonight. The first couple of hours were intense with calls to the voice mail!

Scott called me from work. I sort of apologized for the wild email I sent him last night, but he said he thought it was funny. I don't know....

I put the sweet potatoes in the oven and baked them for Skip. This should give him a head start on cooking in the morning.

Thurday - November 28, 2002
THANKSGIVING DAY
Happy Birthday to my sister Darlene
who is now 43 years young!

I got up about 10:30 this morning. It was nice to sleep in late. It smelled wonderful since Skip as already home from work and had started cooking the turkey. I took Kira for her morning walk (a bit late) and then came back in and tried to get motivaed to help with the food preparation. I took a while. I spent some time copying my diary and journal information from the internet to a Word document. I began this on-line diary on May 10th, 2000. That was Mom's 63rd birthday.

I finally got busy and we put together a truck-load of food. We took six dishes plus the turkey  to Jack & Adam's for our Thanksgiving meal. We had my deviled eggs and giblet gravy, and we had Skip's white corn on the cob, green been casserole, sweet potato pie and cornbread stuffing. We were aiming toward getting everything done by 1:30pm, but by the time we got it all ready and Jack picked us up, it was about a quarter after 3pm.

Jack & Adam had a vegetable medley, pecan pie (which I LOVE but had no room for) "smashed" potatoes and some delicious Cuon Hue (Vietnamese spring rolls). I was very impressed by these. They were a little dry... but tasty. They were larger than traditional egg rolls, and I had two of them with a glass of Skip's Wriesling wine before the meal officially began. I was stuffed. There were seveal things I did not even partake of!

After the meal and a bit of chit-chat, Skip (who had been up nearly 24 hours) decided to catch the train back home. The rest of us were off to see a movie. Shortly after Skip left, as we were lounging about watching The Simpsons, it suddenly dawned on me that I could not see the TV clearly. That was due to the fact that I was not wearing my glasses, which meant I could not see to watch the movie! So we had to leave early so I could pick up my glasses on the way. We got home about 20 seconds after Skip arrived!

Then I remembered that Kira had not gone out for her evening walk yet. Skip was my savior and took her out for me.

We decided on going to the Esquire on Clayton Road to watch "Solaris" starring George Clooney. It was not the best movie I've ever seen. In fact, I would say it was the worst movie I've seen George Clooney in. I nearly put me to sleep. I was interesting in some esoteric artistic ways, but I didn't really care for it. I suspect I won't even remember it it a year. Call me jaded or whatever... it just wasn't very good in my most humble opinion!

Skip was in bed when I got home, of course. The turkey that Diana (my neighbor) left for us was sitting on the cabinet along with all of the other food that we brought home. I put it all away, including deboning and bagging the stuff from Diana. I also ate a great deal of it! (Kira helped me to eat some of it too).

Friday - November 29, 2002

1:38a - It's about time for bed. I woke Skip up about 20 minutes ago, but he's still in bed. I am watching an ineresting episode of the X-File with a gorilla name "Sofie" who appears to have been abducted (by aliens, of course) and impregnated. It sounds bizarre, but so far it is quite moving!

It was busy at work this morning trying to catch up the email and voice mail. Once I got it all caught up it was not too bad for the rest of the day. I left the office at 5pm and worked until 10pm.

I decided to go out for a while and left about 11pm. Went to Clem's. I met Angie and Brian from Chicago and rode with them over to Novak's. Howeve, they were closing, so we went down to Attitudes. Paul Lorenze, who used to work at Talayna's word working the checking in coats! I met a girl named Doris who talked me into buying her a jello shot. We finally left and Angie and Brian gave me a ride home. They wee staying at 7th and Washington, so they were not far away.

Saturday - November 30, 2002

2:56a - I am cooking a bit to eat. More left over turkey of course!

3:05a - It's pretty good. Got seconds... then I'm off to sleep....

Skip and I went went to to Hoolihan's around 11:00 this morning. I just got a bowl of French Soup, the we went to watch "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and Union Station. The movie was good, but I was so sleepy, I was about to fall asleep during most of it. After the movie we went to Hooter's and had some beer. I was going to get a bite to eat, but after the popcorn and soda, my appetite.

We came home and I was so tired ... and a bit tipsy. Skip went to bed. I tried to stay up and away, but I kept dozing off on the sofa. I finally got Skip up and traded places with him a little after 10:00pm. Then (of course) I could not sleep.

Another month down!