Which is more than Gamma, who was on my lap, can say. Beta also stayed awake. A piano quartet – piano, violin, viola, cello – played a few things. Teachers from the local music school. The cello was my cello teacher. Gamma recognized him immediately.
“He’s the one with the cello, right?”
I know the music and musicianship was good, because Beta said so.
I stayed awake, but only barely. Classical music concerts are tough. It’s winter (who would go to such a concert in summer?) the room is stuffy, full of people, relaxing music.
Eh, must go. Coffee pot is overflowing.

At Breakfast:
Unidentified Woman: Bzzbzbzbzzzzbbbzzz.
Unidentified Man: Bzzbzbbbbzzbzbzbz.
U.W.: Okay, get me some milk for my coffee and I’ll clean up the cat vomit. Also I have to leave early to drive your car to the mechanic.
U.M.: Deal.

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Bitch about the state of the world and McDonald’s posts losses and plans to close more than 700 outlets. Sorry for ruining your business, McDonald’s.

Bribes and naked pictures welcome.

Bloggies, schmoggies.
Full list of nominees here.

Thanks, Joeri.

Today’s wacky Russian horoscope for Taurus: There are a lot of indispensable people. And there it is much less irreplaceable things. That fact can appear very useful today. Remember also that it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

So I did a mind map last night.

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When I was your age, I thought humanity could evolve and progress; humanity, not commerce. As people grew more productive, through improved education, training and technology, the necessities of life could be produced with less labor, meaning increased leisure time for education, cultural pursuits, athletics; we would become better and more human, somehow. I didn’t realize the necessities of life would grow faster than our productivity, so that by now we have less free time, not more, and that any free time would be consumed in the form of unemployment.

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Late one morning in an unidentified home.
Unidentified Man: [Checks wrist watch] “Shit!”
Unidentified Woman: “By the way, you have time to go put gas in my car because that’s your job like peeling oranges and I don’t have any time and if you don’t do it now you’ll have to do it tomorrow only I don’t know if I have enough to get to work today if you don’t get it today plus you’re driving my car to work tomorrow because I’m being nice and taking your’s in to the dealer to have the door and windshield fixed, and the square root of Pi lies between 1.75 and 1.78125.”
U.M.: “B-b-b-b-b; Gah!”
U.W.: “And don’t just park it in the street when you get back in case a snow plow comes along.”
U.M.: “Grr.” [Goes and fills tank, returns, starts shuffling cars.]
U.W.: “Hello! We’re ready! Here’s Gamma!”
U.M.: “Hrm. Thanks for getting her bundled up.” [slides open working sliding door on Dobl