Month: July 2006

This was from the other day when it rained so hard I thought it would make the coolest picture, and although I tried and tried, I couldn’t get a shot that really conveyed how hard it was raining.

Today’s been an odd day. I’m restless, but something in me is determined to do nothing productive. Instead, I’ve been searching for odd things on the internet. Like Veets and Beams, my two cats before this who are dead. Like I thought someone would be talking about my dead cats. Except a few were, because I wrote a book about them. One person was complaining about what a whiner I am, and I thought, “stop reading, stop reading, stop reading.” Because really, you can’t please everyone and it does no good to read the bad things people sometime say about you.

But then they said they got into it (they were reading Waiting for My Cats to Die) and that I had made them cry. TWICE. (That’s what you get for calling me a whiner!) Actually, it ended up being a lovely post, and I am a bit of a whiner.

Have you ever had days like that, where you take a day off, but end up reduced to searching for your dead cats on the internet, and you should have just worked on something? You’ve had days like that, right?

Today it was lunch at Tabla with Brett and Jackie. I was jealous of Jackie’s dress. Why don’t I bother to put on a pretty sundress? Look how nice she looks. I could have looked that nice! What is my problem?? Seriously, I wish I made even a little effort with my appearance. I’m back at home now, preparing for the heat wave. It’s supposed to be 97 on Monday. 97 in New York City is not pretty. Help us!
7/13
Worked on Duke book.
Emailed Lisette.
Answered email about possible article.
Lunch with friends, having leftovers for dinner, Big Brother.

Of all the things that are great about the New York,
the architecture,
the museums and galleries,
blah, blah, blah,
the best thing about New York is the food.

And lunch is the best meal in New York because it’s every bit as good as dinner, but less expensive.

These are my friends Sue, Kevin and Josh.

For some reason, Josh had to have a picture of the guy making our guacamole.

So I’m including him here for you Josh! Here is the quacamole man.

My accomplishments yesterday:

Freed up some space on the web server.

Started organizing an Echo party.

And three good things about yesterday:

Pomegranate juice,
a thunderstorm,
being in the zone with my book.

Me and Finn, taking it easy. I got up and out to the gym, but I’ve just been sitting here ever since, not doing much of anything. Should be writing. What have I done instead?

– Looked at cats for adoption on Catster.
– Watched the original pilot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer on YouTube.

– Looked at groceries to buy on Fresh Direct, then decided to pass.
– Watch the Big Brother feeds, but Mike Boogie is doing all the talking and he’s boring and an ass, so I turned it off.

7/11
Successful test with Paymentech!
Updated Echo’s website.
Finally got a handle on the Annapolis speech.
Big Brother, nice but short visit with Howard, the soap that Clive’s mother made.

The block where I live, in 1940. I live in the tallest building. You can’t see it, but the sign on the truck say brewing company. So those barrels are full of beer?

The block where I live, 66 years later. I didn’t get the angle exactly right, and unfortunately, they’re doing work on the house to the left of mine. But you get the idea. It’s almost exactly the same except we’ve got Ginkgo trees all over. I live in the top floor of what’s still the tallest building. That air conditioner is mine!

They took pictures of every building in New York starting in the 1930’s. It was to help them assess taxes. You can get a copy of the picture of your building, or any building you like, from the Municipal Archives. It’s not cheap, $30 plus $4 for shipping, (you can go there and save yourself the shipping charge) but if you can afford it, it’s nice to have. All the information you need is here.

7/10
Conducted Paymentech test, there were problems, alas.
Deleted old directories on the web server.
Went to gym, picked up catfood.
Potato chips, the cats at the Cat Practice, email about a possible article.