tuesday night september 2, 2003 

so it's still hot here. electricity bill from hell this month i'm afraid. so i've spent the last three weeks trying in vain to kill myself with loud music and alcohol. all i've got to show for it are a few extra pounds, a sprained ankle and the beginnings of a sinus infection. and two rather large holes in my teeth from old age and one too many dots for my own good. heh. so the calmness and peace has been restored for the time being and i'm back to one or two outings a week, and for the first time i'll admit i'm kind of happy about that. i think i actually found one of my limits .... only one mind you .... i'm still working on finding all of the others, lol. so what else is running through my mind of late you ask? not much more than going through the paces .... hating, and i do mean hating, work. the old cold, angry and bitter me has been ascendant these last few weeks ... i'll chalk it up to being overworked and overtired for the time being and work on getting back to where i belong. speaking of which, you would think that if you really did belong there it would be such a struggle to stay there would it? a somewhat frightening thought for those of us who don't always like where we seem to be headed. so tonight, it's just one glass of wine, and some peter murphy on the mp3 player ... not entirely happy music of course, but at least it's not the angry young while male show it has been of late. got the pinky fixed up enough now where i can at least practice a bit ... i really need to move the axes back in this room instead of the front room .... they've become too easy to ignore at times out there. as for the rest ... the world seems to be a joke these days ... people acting surprised the president lied or stretched the truth, this whole governor election thing ... iraq and afghanistan falling apart (like that was a hard one to predict)... people being sued for sharing music that's way too overpriced to begin with ... but on the other hand ... mars is close ... we've had some great sunsets and i'm going fishing this weekend ... and god damn ... chicks kissing on tv and on the front page of papers .... take the good with the bad i guess, eh?&

and pongo. he's failing. poor pongo. 14 fuckin years old and he's still going. it breaks my heart. totally. he's been the perfect dog ... or at least as perfect as a dalmatian can be ... no biting, good protection, always happy, and really only caused problems as a puppy .... he's been my mom's salvation these last few years after my dad and mandy bumped off. now he's going too ... or at least i hope he is ... i won't be able to do the deed again ... already did it to a dog i thought i hated ... i will never do it again. i pray that he just goes to sleep one night and doesn't wake up ... it will kill to have to put him down. you hear me up there? it's time for a favor i think.

that was awfully ... i don't know what the right word is. but it was awfully something.

remember to vote no on everyone. everyone that is except for these two.

m