Friday - To a B-Day party I'm going

Saturday - On music I'm working

Sunday - Dominican food I'm learning to cook

Monday - At the Carribean Festival in Brooklyn I'll dancing

Reloading programs onto my new computer (after 7 years the old one is retiring), meeting friends for drinks and dinner (and more drinks), making a few mix discs, and watching a few old movies.

off to the adirondacks for some chilling out and hiking.

Kumoricon!

Drinkies tonight, hiking the Kolsås tomorrow morning in Bærum.

flying
renting a car
eating
drinking
sleeping
whuffling mudpuppies
driving
aquariuming
farmers' marketing
beaching

Friday: Buy lots of groceries and beer.
Saturday: Take groceries and beer to Matinicus Island.
Sunday: Eat groceries, drink beer, read, and walk on the beach.
Monday: See Sunday.
Tuesday to Friday: See Monday.

Tonight: Drinking
Saturday: Working
Sunday: Working
Monday: Working

Meh. :-(

Friday - Dinner with out-of-town friend

Saturday - Thesis writing or fixing up room in new apartment

Sunday - Same

Monday - Same

Yeesh, I should do something fun for once. I like JanetLand's weekend the best.

Friday -

Step out of here, I said, with a stout heart and your bollocks in your boots and come again tomorrow, tell the missus to go chase apes in hell. There were delicate moments. . . Brats the offscourings of fornication and God Almighty a cheap scent in a jakes. . .

Saturday - Help organize and attend a party.

Sunday - Hunt Javelina in the wilds of Park Slope.

Monday - Maybe cook some pork chops.

Heading up the Sunshine Coast to my friend's farm, visiting her and the small boy (who now remembers me and is excited that I'm coming. Wheee!)

Wishing I could be at the pupster/specklet whufflefest at the same time.

first things first; in eight minutes, i'm turning this box off, hopping in my car, driving home, and taking a damn nap.

from there, who knows...

working (gotta get this damn site done -- bleh)
shopping
packing (well, practice-packing to make sure everything fits in the one bag)
cleaning
preparing for 11 hour flight on Wednesday!

Expounding to son on truancy, evils thereof.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also, possibly going up to see my friend in Bat Cave
and/or meeting Moonbird for a beer on Saturday with my daughter to whom career tips, he will be giving.

tonight - laundry
tomorrow - possibly to cabin in Utah for bbq
sunday - was: CRACKER concert! now: Elvis wedding! then drinks.
monday - hangover/recovery

Tonight: Wine, Women and Song! Which really means: Drinking wine at home while watching the Gilmore Girls on DVD singing along with Carol King... if you lead, I will follow!

Tomorrow: Wait for a new bookshelf to be delivered. Photo Friday has powerful effects! Must DRAW, DRAW, DRAW comic. And, work on a delinquent web site.

Sunday: Picnic (if weather permits). Must DRAFT, DRAFT, DRAFT statement.

Monday: Wiffle (or is that Whiffle?) Ball in Prospect Park (if weather permits).

Tonight: hooking up with crazy artist friend to see how he's been the last week or so
Tomorrow: hanging with the girls and preparing for sunday
Sunday: Greasy breakfast with friends, who will then be coming over to hang out and also help me finish some work on my garage, work that I started last summer!Then possibly a partay at above artist's studio.
Monday: Who knows. Relaxing I hope?

Moving. Bye!

This afternoon: Work, including but not limited to making a banned-books-week display and writing an angry letter to the folks who left a big mess in our meeting room.

This evening: Hanging with my pal M, including but not limited to dinner.

This night: Hanging with my pal B, maybe, and maybe trying to sell him on Bushido Blade. Alternately, watching a movie or playing a game or something at the crib. In either case, drinking and smoking.

Tomorrow morning/night: Work.

Saturday evening through Monday evening: Maybe go eat or drink something. Almost certainly go for a walk in the park. Read The Night Gardener, and maybe From Sun-Tzu to X-Box, and maybe some other stuff. Listen to new-to-me Tommy McCook and Ossie Hibbert albums. Maybe work on any of several projects, including but not limited to The Bike That Doesn't Stop As Well As I'd Like, The Truck With The Rattling Tailgate and The Secondhand Computer That's Got To Be Good For Something. I'm not sure why I gave those projects such ridiculous names.

Wiffle (or is that Whiffle?) Ball in Prospect Park (if weather permits).

Whuffle Ball!

Bumbershoot.

Tomorrow : try not to isolate
Sunday : try not to isolate
Monday : back to work (our holiday was last Monday)

I need to recognise the distinction between solitude (good) and isolating (bad). I find it very, very difficult to mix with people and have to make a huge effort to go out. I'll probably go to an AA meeting tomorrow lunchtime, and watch the football on TV in the late afternoon.

I'm toying with the idea of getting my hair cut. I mean properly styled, instead of just trimmed. It has no shape. I may go to one of the local salons tomorrow and talk to them. I always feel I'm not worth spending the money on. "It's only me, why bother?"

Whuffle Ball!
Even Better!

Going on vacation!

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Yes, at long last, one whole week of pure relaxation. Haven't had a real vacation in...well, over a year. Sailing trips were cool, but work-related and tiring; a wedding weekend in July was a quick escape, but busy. This is going to be a true vacation - a week at an overcrowded beach rental at a simple old-school beach town on the Jersey Shore with my family and friends o'the family. Activities to include:

Sleeping
Reading (what a fine stack of books I have!)
Swimming
Playing of Hearts, Spades, harshly competitive Boggle, and if we feel ambitious, Canasta
Eating of sweet corn, Jersey tomatoes, boardwalk hot dogs, and thin crust pizza
Doing nothing
Sitting on the deck working on songs
Writing postcards to sweetheart
Yapping and talking and laughing away til late at night
Falling off skimboard
Running and walking
Skee-Ball and other fun arcade machines (DDR, I'm lookin' at you)
Recharging. Thinking. And being really, really thankful, all day every day, for the glories that have suddenly been shining into my life.

Playing with my new sidekick3, beer, a couple web jobs, beer again...maaaaaybe bumbershoot but too expensive and not as many bands I wanna see...

Oh and beer.

Also, buying tix to see Wicked (sweet!).

My schedule is exactly like cmonkey's, except that the Tonight: entry should be modified to match the other three.

Oh, and early tomorrow morning I have a phone interview for a new job. It's not professional gum chewing, but anything would be better than this.

Best of luck, tangerine!