January thaw? What's that?

As I write this, at 11 pm on January 26, it is minus 7 degrees F. That is ridiculous. The cold snap we are enduring is getting extended, then re-extended and now it is indefinite. What did we do to have our world thrown into the icebox? Al Gore is a bullshit artist. There is no global warming.

I use a small space heater at my place and it is on all the time. I am afraid of what kind of damage that is going to do to my power supply bill. Maybe if I don't check the mailbox, it won't be there. I know when I extend my hand in to retrieve my bills, it is going to bite my hand. It will chomp down on me and take blood.

The gathering at the church Saturday night was amazing. The movie was really great. The food was stupendous. I made 11 pizzas. We had 14 in all because another attendee brought some also. They were mediocre compared to my creations. Even my plain cheese pizzas earn raves. I have secret weapons I use to lure the masses into my culinary cheesy masterpieces. I did make a version of my white chicken pesto pizza. The difference this time was no feta cheese. It didn't make that big of a difference. Next time I might not use the whole wheat dough balls to make pies smaller than 16 inches. It was too thick. At the end of the movie, there wasn't a single piece of pizza to be found. It was a good night.

It is up longer.. noticably so.

Wednesday. Hump day as some call it. Even though the 21st of December was the turn of the solstice, you already can see a significant lengthening to the day. It is still nice and bright closer to five in the afternoon.. Ahhh.. Summer is going to return.. Now for that beach body.

My car is filthy with salty mud residue and it is gross. The other day when I went to see the Ferguson's, it took tons of washer fluid to keep my windshield clear. All the adjoining vehicles kept spitting up speckles of the stuff. It is like watered down chocolate milk and it dries in streaks if you use the rubber wipers alone. Why is it that my windshield washer fluid reservoir is slightly less than one gallon in capacity? The blue juice comes in gallon jugs. It would make sense to design a tank that can fit under my car's hood, but can easily consume the entire container's worth. It is so silly. I am left with about a cup or so that has to wait until there is enough room to pour it in. DUMB!

Happy New Year

Happy 2009 and many good things to all in the coming year.

2008 was pretty ok for the most part. I had some downs, but a lot more ups. Many things are different: Richie is seeing someone I actually like.. (what's that ringing noise??) I am doing well with the current treatment regimen for my psoriasis. I am now keeping very busy helping out my friend Tony at his store on a daily basis. It doesn't pay, but that isn't what it is about. It is fun and gets me going and doing productive things again. The feeling of accomplishment from making non-working things viable and valuable again is very satisfying. Also, I get to flex my customer service muscle quite often by fielding questions posed by customers, when they aren't retards, and sometimes when they are. Boom boom.