Got a haircut (resigned to layers), balanced the checkbook, paid bills, picked up the first of emergency supplies, got a good start on Jim B’s eBay project, deposited checks from a client, finally submitted a couple of refund offers (mailing deadline is the 13th and today is the 12th), followed on with some nice people who may have computers to donate to the Tech Academy, spoke with a senior staff member at my Congressman’s office about the goings-on at Edwards (great quote: “If we get stuck with the sex offenders while the rest of the people go home, that wouldn’t be much of a deal.”), stopped by the library so they could update my account and having done so, reserved several books online, attempted to negotiate a better APR on my one credit card and printed off directions to a couple of meetings tomorrow.
Non-sequitur: It was Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) who said: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. I have always liked that quote, and can never remember the author, so now I can look it up in this blog.
Being way behind the power curve in the visual arts, I only recently saw and greatly enjoyed the films “Holes” and “Beloved”, both of which IMHO are under-rated, as is Thandie Newton’s performance.
Peter posted some very cute photos of my grandcat, Max, and of James on his first day of school, so if you are one of his Flickr buddies, please take a look.
Went to a Mary Kay party hostessed by one of my gal pals yesterday, and it was fun. Quality products, reasonably priced, and bought cosmetics for probably the first time in 5 years, won the door prize, and today, I actually bought a MIRROR, since you can’t get the stuff on accurately by staring at your reflection in the lid of a pot.
Ohmigosh, GIANT, fat buds on one of the Montauks!