1. Abdominal surgery is a bitch
2. Getting better though
3. Green Wing on DVD makes me happy

1. Ferry to Rockaways is not running on the weekends. Darn. There goes my plan to take a crapload of photos and videos of the harbor.

2. Will spend afternoon at library instead, putting in interlibrary requests for old-timey weightlifting titles.

3. Then I shall take the train down to Brooklyn, where I will get in touch with my feminine side by having a girly, fruity cocktail at Zombie Hut.

1. Just awoke from a nap on the sofa. Mouf feels horrible, despite tooth-brushing.

2. Will soon have to get ready to go to a wedding reception. Social anxiety is starting to kick in though. But I will go. It's not far so I don't have to rush.

3. I am feeding a neighbour's cats this weekend and one, a stupid three-legged thing, won't come in. He was out all night last night and all day today. I left food out for him last night but haven't today in the hope that he'll be hungry enough to come in. When his owner is home he'll sit on my lap, purr, let me fuss him, but whenever I feed him I have this pantomime every single time. The other cat is gorgeous though.

1. Left my sunroof open last night.
2. It rained.
3. Puppy Olive kept trying to sleep on my face. Need to break her of this.

1) Volunteered with the community garden yesterday and today. Excellent gig. Had one kid ask if I'd adopt her. I love it.

2) Gleaned ~10 lbs of plums from the garden and will make jam with them shortly.

3) Going out by myself (!!) to a party benefiting a very local environmental non-profit.

1. Hey, Dad, I'm in the South! And you know what? I like it here!

2. Chicken-Leg Al is the coolest trooper of a cat ever in the history of ever.

3. So glad I came down here.

Abdominal surgery, alto? Owowowowow. So sorry to hear that. Hope you heal quickly.

1. Took my bohemian stroke recovering auntie to the dentist yesterday in an attempt to fix up her dentures so she'll actually wear them and not just wander around with nothing but those two teeth on the bottom sticking up like some kind of crazed elderly hippopotamus in a hippie dress. It was quite a trip and then we drank champagne on my back deck which made her happy.

2. Lost badly at trivia at the pub last night. 11 people on a team doesn't really work very well.

3. Spent the afternoon making the vegetable garden look like an actual garden again instead of just a weedy patch of lawn with a couple of random tomato cages in it. Now I'm off to Lowes for straw and rat traps - I am living in a UB40 song, argh, argh, argh and it's not Red, Red Wine.

pssst, elizard! Birmingham, AL to Asheville, NC - 371 miles.

I had to go to Roanoke for Indian food tonight thanks to this post, just so you know.