Jul 23, 2001
Had to go pick up my car from the party yesterday.
Had to go pick up my car from the party yesterday. Used the bicycle so I wouldn't have to play auto leapfrog; and because it was only about a mile and a half.
I violated rule one - don't cut corners, or you'll end up doing it twice. Just so I could proclaim the kitchen totally finished when the plumbing is installed, I bought some inexpensive self-stick vinyl baseboard material for the dining area. Couldn't find 4-inch natural maple baseboards anywhere, and this would have saved making my own from lumber. But the self-stick adhesive doesn't seem to stick to anything, and the vinyl sags and weaves along its length. Have to pull it out and just do it right, like I should've done the first time.
I will still be able to proclaim the kitchen finished if you want to be technical about it. Finishing the dining room will be a different project. Works for me.
I never anticipated that a trip to the lumber yard would yield the answer to the greatest mystery of all time - namely where the babes are. I found them. Young and old; single, married, and divorced; beautiful and so-so. And an overwhelming majority were alone. No they weren't buying lumber. It's market day. Doh. (Smacking side of brain). Weight conscious ladies (and they all are) need fresh fruits and vegetables. Too bad I look pretty disheviled and hung over at the moment, but they'll be there next week. I think I'm getting a craving for a couple of mangoes.
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Technorati "I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing
means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is
somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all."
"Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with
them, or something?"
"Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was
lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or
not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming."
"You hold meetings, then, like the AA?"
"No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service
you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case
it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings
would destroy the whole point of it."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"
means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is
somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all."
"Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with
them, or something?"
"Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was
lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or
not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming."
"You hold meetings, then, like the AA?"
"No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service
you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case
it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings
would destroy the whole point of it."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"
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