Month: June 2010

Monday various

Happy Father’s Day

I was woken up first thing this morning by my father, asking me to help him push one of the cars into the street because the battery had died. And, well, today is Father’s Day, so who am I to say no? It was incredibly hot and muggy outside, though, even before nine o’clock (which is what constitutes “first thing” on a weekend), so after we jump-started the car and poked at one of the taillights (which wasn’t working yesterday and might be the source of the problem), I came back inside and tried to go back to sleep for a while.

I mostly failed at that, but I did spend the better part of the day indoors, within the protective bubble of air conditioning. I watched this week’s Doctor Who Confidential and largely completed the Sunday crossword. (I liked this week’s a lot more than last’s.) I spent a little time out in the backyard, taking some photographs and some video, and reading a few stories submitted to Kaleidotrope, but the humidity got the best of me after not too long. And it’s maybe good that it did, because not half an hour later it poured rain for fifteen or twenty minutes.

I’m still getting over this cold — and now thoroughly convinced it is a cold, and not just allergies. It’s mostly just a nagging cough now, which, with any luck, will be gone before long. I’m feeling a lot better, so that’s good.

After dinner, my mother and I gave my father some Father’s Day gifts (mostly gift cards). My sister will be visiting next weekend, but she called to wish him a happy day. My father, unfortunately, had to attend a wake for an old family friend this afternoon, so we didn’t go out to eat or anything special.

Mostly, it was just a quiet Sunday.

June 19

More of the same today, mostly, with the most exciting thing being the new episode of Doctor Who that I watched. (And I thought Russell T. Davies threw everything and the kitchen sink into his last season finale.) I’m not 100%, still with the cough, but I am feeling a whole lot better today.

Sick day

I stayed home sick today, which was about as much fun and as exciting as you might expect. Not really the three-day weekend I’ve always dreamed of, I spent most of the day asleep or lying around. There were the Jehovah’s Witnesses and guy offering to give an estimate on driveway resurfacing that I turned away, and the episodes of television I watched, and the plate I accidentally broke, but when you mostly just want to spend the day asleep, there isn’t a whole lot to talk about.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t just allergies anymore, though.

Random 10 6/18

Last week proved really difficult. Will this week be the same?

  1. “Cheeseburger in Paradise” by Jimmy Buffett, guessed by Clayton
    Tried to amend my carnivorous habits
  2. “One of Us Must Know (Sooner of Later)” by Bob Dylan
    I couldn’t see when it started snowin’
  3. “Daydream Believer” by Shonen Knife (orig. the Monkees), guessed by Clayton
    Oh, I could hide ‘neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings
  4. “Extraordinary Machine” by Fiona Apple, guessed by Thud
    I certainly haven’t been shopping for any new shoes
  5. “Crystalnight” by Alipinestars
    And we knew everything
  6. “The Limit to Your Love” by Feist
    Clouds part just to give us a little sun
  7. “Deep Dark Truthful Mirror” by Elvis Costello
    The sky was just a purple bruise, the ground was iron
  8. “Where Is My Mind?” by Storm Large (orig. the Pixies)
    With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
  9. “Overated” by Siohhan Donaghy
    See it over freezing, puffing and wheezing
  10. “Tianchi Lake” by the Mountain Goats
    Preacher in the soft brown sand begins to speak his piece

Good luck!