Our GE furnace. I sure everything in this GE town was GE made at one time.

I guess if our furnace needs service, we can call Delta-Rufer Heating Service on Brandywine Ave. at FR7-0889. Our oil tank was dug up a few years ago but we still have our permit when it was installed in 1947. Sometime along the way, the furnace was converted to gas.

The leaves have finally started to change colors in the last week, very late for this part of the country. The unusual weather we've had of late has not only made it a very late fall but an unspectacular one. Damn, I'm not complaining mind you, the weather is beautiful for November especially after all the rain we've had. I guess there'll be some raking in store next week...Our kitchen floor arrived this week. Too bad it arrived to the dining room rather than the kitchen. We'll just have to step over it for the time being...I'm also getting over being sick. I've had like zero energy for the past week and being too stubborn to take NyQuil I missed a lot of sleep. Yesterday was better (Thank you NyQuil) and today is better than that. Now maybe I can make some phone calls and do some things I just haven't had the time or energy to do.

Now a confession. I never watched The Nanny when it came on at night. I wondered how such a show could have lasted so long. She's so annoying. I have now started catching The Nanny in reruns. I kind of like it...Don't hate me.

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05 November 2005

God my feet hurt. Yesterday at work we painted most of the day so I wore old clothes and old shoes. I wore my my old Vans from about 6 years ago, size 11. They were always VERY comfortable at the time, so much I wore a hole in the bottom. My next shoes are the ones I wore while I painted the house. The were also size 11. When I bought them, they were comfortable. I was on the ladder a great deal of the time and that's when I first noticed the shoes didn't feel quite right. They were covered with paint so I got a new pair of shoes. Yes I do try on shoes when I buy them and at the time, they felt alright. But they also always felt kind of tight. Next were the Skechers, size 11, they still feel OK but when I bought my the second pair of Skechers, I upped it to 11 1/2. My most recent buy were boots and they're 12's, only because I always but insoles in my boots. My feet have grown and God they hurt. 11 1/2 is good.

You know they say, "Big feet, big..."

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08 November 2005

Yesterday the president declared we do not torture. Doesn't that seem strange considering congress is trying to pass a law outlawing torture and the president is trying to keep it from passing? That's our dancing Bush.

This morning, I went to vote and of course, there was no line. Even in the presidential election, I have never seen a line there. I don't know if they've never downsized their polling places since this city is now a third smaller than it was in 1950. I know they've never changed the ballot machines. Five years since the Florida hanging chad controversy and they haven't even decided what they want to do about the new machines they have to buy by next year. This when the federal government is paying for 95% of the cost with state and local governments picking up the other 5%. I really liked the touch screens they used when I lived in Charlotte but controversially, they leave no paper trail. The optical scan machines they use in Raleigh are not quite as simple but still pretty easy to use and they leave a paper trail if there were to be a problem. I now embark on this beautiful day with my Chex Mix.

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11 November 2005

I smashed another finger trying to be a good boy by moving the pipe that came up through the floor in the kitchen for the dishwasher. The dishwasher now drains behind the dishwasher rather than beside the refrigerator leaving room for a bigger refrigerator. I wanted to fill this hole before the new floor was out down. I smell the end of this project that started more than a year ago coming to an end. It smells good.

My finger hurts, I want pizza.

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I'm sure you can't wait to see our new kitchen floor. Well, maybe you don't care. You'll still have to wait until I finish putting down the quarter-round and until our brand spanking new refrigerator arrives on Saturday. How sad is it when you get excited about a new refrigerator? Maybe I'm thinking more that it's arrival marks the day when it's finished. It's been more than a year.

I think I want a tattoo. I keep talking about it and whenever someone ask me what I want, I don't know. I want it on my calf but I'm not sure what exactly to put there. It has to be me, yet cool. What IS the symbol for oxymoron?

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18 November 2005

I think I was pretty sure before, but now I'm 100"% sure, I'm gay. I was raking the yard today listening to the awesome new Madonna CD on the iPod and couldn't stop myself from dancing. Oh I tried, I really tried, but I couldn't stop. I was by myself and I didn't care if the neighbors were watching or not. It may have been the most fun I've ever had raking leaves as an adult. I don't count the times raking as a kid when you ran and dove into the piles. If I would have only danced to Madonna back then.

As for my tattoo, my recommendations I got are for a Jeep, a nuclear symbol which I guess means an atom, and "a big dick". The big dick is out. I can look at one of those anytime. I like the jeep and the atom ideas.

My proverb of the day: There is none so blind as he who cannot see.

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23 November 2005

This afternoon Duncan started preparing for the feast tomorrow by preparing some deserts -- cheesecake, pumpkin pie, and red velvet cake. I did my part by breading the fried squash and pretending not to see the rutabagas (yuck) cooking on the stove. He likes to cook and I detest it for the most part unless it's something very simple and easy to clean up. We're staying here this year and having some friends over. It's gonna be a cold snowy day as we expect one to three inches of snow on this Thanksgiving. My first White Thanksgiving, I have yet to experience a White Christmas. Can I have some cheesecake?

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24 November 2005

Snow on Thanksgiving morning is something I'm not thankful for, however, watching my man in the kitchen excited about cooking a big dinner is something I am. In fact, I'm thankful just being able to watch him do anything. I love having him in my life. I'm also thankful for my great family, my awesome dog, my friends, the fact that I don't have to be out in the cold today or even better, the fact that I don't live out in the cold.

It's almost time for the parade. This year we'll just watch it on TV.

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30 November 2005

It started out with some home movies I bought on E-Bay about a lady from the 1940's who had a secret life. As it turned out, she was in WWII in some secret mission. I was watching the movies and listening to the stories told by her son. At first we were looking at the movies from the viewer's point of view. Two war planes flying over the ocean all by themselves. All you could see was ocean. All the sudden, I find myself on one of the planes and the other gets shot down. They were the size of skyscrapers and we were on a secrete mission. I watched the other as it's pieces fall to the ocean. I hear talk of Iraq. All the sudden, I was falling. All I could see was the remains of the other plane. I fell for a long time. I didn't ponder life or my loved ones or the hereafter. I thought about how much it would hurt. I was falling fast and I didn't want to hit the wreckage of the other plane in the water. I tried to divert myself. I woke up...I was breathing heavily and my heart was racing. I felt as I left so much out as I got up to write this in the light as opposed to writing in the dark as I usually do. It's 4:30AM. I have to go to work soon. My heart is just beginning to slow down.

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