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Category: May 2005

• To the bird who pooped on the driver's side window of my car, thank you. Having a large white smear of crap in my peripheral vision motivated me to go to the car wash. My car is all shiny now.
• I haven't been to a car wash in years, and the last time I went, someone else ran the controls. I didn't know what to do and wasted a bunch of quarters. Next time, I'll know how it works, though.
• I am once again amazed at all the people who pack their three day weekends full of activities. I look forward to three day weekends so I can have three days of doing nothing in particular. If I want to do something, I'll take a vacation and do it while everyone else is working.

• On the way to work today, I saw a loose little dog and another dog poking his head out of a fence. I stopped and reattached a loose board and coaxed the little dog to go to his front door. I rang the doorbell and a little kid let the dog in and thanked me. Loose dogs worry the heck out of me.
• Lilydawg stayed home today instead of going to doggie day care. I came home at lunch to take her out. I stopped at Long John Silvers to pick up a platter of fish and chicken. I love that place. I wish they had better french fries, though.
• I'm glad my favorite shows are having their season finales. I need a break to watch the movies that are backed up on my TiVo. The "Alias" season finale shocked the heck out of me. The "House" season finale last Tuesday was great, but oddly enough, the next season of "House" starts this Tuesday.
• I like the Muppets. I sure don't like Miss Piggy, though. She's annoying. I'm watching the Muppets' Wizard of Oz. Kermit (scarecrow) just asked the Wizard if he was related to Frank Oz. hee hee

• House Witness List
• Senate Witness List

Even on my own mix CDs that only contain songs I like, I come across songs that I don’t care to hear at that moment. This particular occasion made me think about the handful of songs I come across that I almost always repeat and that I never skip over, change channels if its on the radio, or turn off.

• "Ender" by Ash Can Painters
• "Desperately Wanting" by Better than Ezra
• "All Too Familiar" by Bill Derome
• "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith
• "A Little Like Lightning" by Colleen Jameson
• "Mr. Jones" unplugged version by Counting Crows
• "Color Blind" by Counting Crows
• "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House
• "Change (In the House of Flies)" by Deftones
• "Never Is A Promise" by Fiona Apple
• "She Says" by Howie Day
• "Guide Vocal" by Genesis
• "Ghost" by Indigo Girls
• "On and On" by Longpigs
• "Never Die Young" by Lori McKenna
• "If You're Gone" by Matchbox Twenty
• "To Sheila" a Smashing Pumpkins cover by Mick OD
• "Kite" by Patty Griffin
• "Daughter" by Pearl Jam
• "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel
• "Sofkuri's Room" by The Push Stars
• "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead
• "Don't Wanna Know" by The Refreshments
• "Cannonball" by Rhetoric Tuesday
• "Disarm" by Smashing Pumpkins
• "Birthday" by The Sugarcubes
• "Winter" by Tori Amos
• "Love Reign O'er Me" by The Who

• I walked around the neighborhood for twenty minutes after dinner. Exercise always does me good. I should have done it again tonight, but I worked late.
• I did not eat a piece of the chocolate raspberry truffle cake that's in my fridge. I shouldn't have eaten a piece tonight, but it tastes so good.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually nearest to you.

But by mid-May, the sun rises out of the morning's haze with authority and potency, and standing on your top step at seven in the morning with your dinner bucket in your hand, you know that the dew will be melted off the grass by eight and that the dust on the back roads will hang depthless and still in the air for five minutes after a car's passage; and that by one in the afternoon it will be up to ninety-five on the third floor of the mill and the sweat will roll of your arms like oil and stick your shirt to your back in a widening patch and it might as well be July.

• First off: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! That's all I have to say about that.
• I'm coloring my hair tonight.
• I went to CVS to buy hair color, and they had Coke with Splenda. It's about time Coke got on board with Splenda. It tastes okay. Now they just need to come out with Caffiene Free Coke with Splenda and Lime, and I'll be a convert.
• When I went to check out, there was one woman waiting to check out and no clerk. I was very busy with my own thoughts and in no hurry, so it didn't bother me. But the longer we waited the more the waiting woman bitched. I know she had a right to bitch, but I can't take the negativity. Then she refused to walk over to the photo counter to check out when the photo dude offered to help her.
• I also bought two kinds of cookies and Fudge Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I'm stressed out.
• The picture I had taken yesterday for a newsletter article turned out okay. My eyes and smile are cute. The thing I don't like about it has nothing to do with photography or lighting. It's my own fault that I need to lose 70 pounds. And then I'll still be overweight to some people.
• I get to go to Corpus Christi next month on business. I'm going a couple days early. That might be the only vacation I get this summer.

Really what we're talking about is Austin's status as live music capital of the world. We're talking about an ordinance that if passed would severely harm Austin, and cut right to the heart and soul of what Austin is: its live music scene.

• I went for a haircut this afternoon. I got a cheap Supercuts haircut this time. Yolanda cut my hair. As she was washing my hair, she asked if I was ready for tomorrow. I asked, "What's tomorrow?" She said, "Mother's Day." I said, "Oh. No, I guess not." She asked me, "You don't have kids?" That took me by surprise because I wasn't thinking of it from a being-a-mom perspective. I felt bad for her because I knew what her next question would be. When she asked about my mother, I told her my mom passed away about 10 years ago. She expressed her sympathy. I guess most women my age either have mothers, are mothers or both.
• I have to get my picture taken on Monday for a newsletter article written about me at work. The article is real cool, but I'm not looking forward to the picture because I've done my best to restrict the pictures of me that get out into the public. I'm a big fatso, and I only let the pictures out that are taken with great care to minimize that (camera angles and shadows). I don't like to be a burden on people, though, nor do I want the reputation of a diva, so I'll probably just accept whatever picture is taken and hate it for the rest of my life. It's got me feeling depressed. I know everyone will assure me I look fine to them. That's not the point. I want to look fine to me.
• I think I'll wash my hair now and see what happens to it when I style it myself. I bought some Tea Tree Oil shampoo with peppermint oil that feels good on my scalp, so it'll be like a pamper session. Maybe I'll give myself a facial, too.

• I saw a dog with sunglasses today. They were strapped on with a harness. He had his head hanging out of a truck window. He looked happy and cute!
• I've given Orion a nickname. I call him Kit Cat. I love my Kit Cat.
• I bought fresh flowers on Sunday. I think I'll do that every so often. Fresh flowers add so much to a room.
• Whole Foods opened a giant flagship store on my way home from work a couple months ago. I've been avoiding it, thinking it would be crowded and nightmarish. Today, I needed parmesan cheese, so I took a chance. It was great! The problem is that I spend too much money and buy too many things that aren't good for me when I shop there. Like Belgian Kriek beer and a small cake. And Brie and crackers. I would have bought a S'more from the chocolate counter, too, if the lady hadn't been busy dipping strawberries.
• I'm going to try to get to sleep before 11:00 p.m. tonight. I've been staying up too late lately. That said... I better get to bed. 'night!