I haven't written lately but now I'm inspired.
1. Into the Wild is a very good film, Sean Penn doesn't disappoint and the fact that it seems they shot on every location the fellow went helps to keep you in the spirit of his travels. Very sad of course, but he saw a lot in his short life, lots more than many people.
2. On regular excercise - when I tell folks I run regularly I sometimes mention that I go rain/shine/cold/heat etc. because if I started using excuses not to go, pretty soon I'd be a full time couch potato. And as is, I've been watching way too much of the Home & Garden channel to inspire the work on my house. Anyway, this last week we had snow, thaw and freeze which made for some treacherous conditions. I go pretty slow when it's glare ice. I mentioned to a co-worker that, yes, I usually fall once a season. Well now everything is bare and dry after several 40+ days, but last evening, (and it wasn't even fully dark), I was running past this young couple and just as I came up on them they kissed, I looked at them for a second and WHAM down I go on the sidewalk, scaring them and scraping my knee. It was a little embarassing, but oh well, just glad it wasn't worse than a scraped knee. There are so many uneven sidewalks it doesn't even take ice to be dangerous. So hopefully that's my fall for this season, got it out of the way early.
3. About that house stuff, well I may actually be ready to work on the kitchen floor which has been bare of the carpet, and ugly as hell, for about 2 years. I've always wanted ceramic tile but the expense of the subfloor, installation and tile has been prohibitive. So I've decided to go for vinyl tile, which has come a long way in the last dozen or so years. No sub floor required, just a really level starting surface, and I can cut it and lay it myself, unlike the ceramic which takes a special water saw to cut. So I'm deciding on a color and will spend this weekend scraping the old glued paper off. Should be fun. But hey, no social life, it should be a really productive weekend!
4. Speaking of social life, after the torturous date last week, I emailed a fellow in LA who was appealing and noted I'd be in LA end of January. Well he writes this curt note back that he hasn't done long distance romance since college and he'd pass. Who said I wanted a romance I replied, I'm just looking to meet some interesting men as Montana is slim pickings, and p.s. WHEN NOT INTERESTED, best to not reply at all ASSHOLE! Well I skipped the asshole part and was very polite and civil, but hopefully he got the point. The Thumper rule "when you don't have anything nice to say...."
5. That's it for now. Posted the waxwing pix I took while in Bozo last weekend, and another "Little Crazy" one of me. I guess we're all a little crazy, but boring would be worse.
