Homebound

The snows did not take again. The heat came, and rain turned everything into a slushy slurry of disappointment. I have to say I did expect it, but you always hold out hope that the wintry burst will last a bit longer than it ever does. I doubt we'll see much in the way of ice and snow this year.

So I spent the day at home. My friend never arrived. No new furniture for me. Also means the food bank was postponed. I had to sit by the phone all day, waiting for the call that never came in.

Suffice to say that it left my day in a lurch. The only thing that could be the nice, shiny cherry on top of that disappointment filled sundae? Why yes, my roommate had the day off from his job at the Evil Pepsi Empire.

Always fun. Getting bugged every 15 minutes to move this, pick up that, hold that in place. Of course he has another project going. The installation of his home theater system. Oh goodie. Granted, I'll probably end up using it of course, since it's out there in the main room. But it's not like there's a driving need for me to have it. It's not like I have a next-gen console that demands that nice Hi-Def screen. We get no Hi-Def channels. He bought a blu-ray player, but only got two movies, both of which underwhelmed me. Sleeping Beauty and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For one I almost never like Disney movies, I think the few exceptions were the old Gargoyles TV series and the movie Mulan. And Indiana Jones? I can't find a single person who is a fan of the series that liked that movie, including myself. Granted, it wasn't "Bad" as someone might traditionally think of bad movies. But it was very bad compared to the earlier movies, and hell, even to the TV series. It didn't FEEL like an Indiana Jones move. It felt more like some of the generic adventure/thriller films I've seen in the last decade or so. Good effects, but that was about the only thing to set it apart from the crowd.

Through it all of course I had to take little sniping comments from him. Oh, I didn't do the dishes right at the moment we were done with dinner. Oh, I didn't shovel the millimeter of snow off the walk that fell at 8 AM before he got up at 10 AM. Such little nitpicking, it's like living with an old shrew of a wife.

And no, I'm not a misogynist.

So I spent as much time as I could in my room, my temple to myself. Watched some of that Monk marathon on USA, read some of my books, finally finishing up Red Iron Nights and starting on Violets are Blue.

And wondering if I can find wherever my roommate stashed that reciept for the MP3 player. So what, he took it in and found it works perfectly, it's just his PCs that won't recognize it because thier USB ports are shot. Well, it still doesn't do me any good. I bet it was some cheap device he got for like 10 bucks, if that anyway. Nothing I could even turn it in for that would be worth a damn. Would be nice if it was expensive enough to get a Nintendo DS out of... but I doubt that. I doubt I could even get a PC game out.

As Felicia would say, everytime I got frustrated over stupid things, "C'est la vie."

C'est la vie. That used to irritate me even more, but I always ended up laughing at myself right afterwards. She always did bring out the best in me. Even just her memory tends to calm me down and put a sad, regretful smile on my face.

If only I wasn't such a coward.



Til next time,

Grind Away