It's been a low key and vaguely blue day. Wouldn't you know - we had a small earth quake in Atlanta last night, or so I'm told, and I slept through it. Living in the city, it would be hard to tell the difference between a tremor from shifting plates or just another large truck passing or underground construction going on. But that was the small excitement this morning - the only topic of conversation for the day. The rest of the day was tedium and frustration and boredom. Not that I had anything to really complain about but nothing to smile about either.

Looking forward to the weekend's art events and music. Wishing I saw more of the nice boy. Wishing I had a shed to make an enjoyable mess in. Or maybe just someone to punch me in the arm or shake me up a bit.

It was a pretty good weekend.

Friday, got to spend time with the nice boy.

Saturday ran errands to Smyrna and back. In the evening met Mike and Patty at Shakespeare Tavern to see Murder in the Cathedral, part of the Sacred and Profane series. It was great to catch up with them on what they're up to. I don't see them nearly as much as I would like to.

Sunday, hung out with Kim and Harris at the park. I laid back on a picnic blanket in the shade of a tree while most of the group that was with us played kickball in the field. Quite a dog show, as usual, in the park as well. Later I went to Eats with Kim and Harris before they returned home to prepare for their morning flight out.

Looks as if I'm not going to be successful in arranging a women's night gathering at Tortillas before they close forever. Too many stories in that group about dead rats and other untidy conditions there. But to me, Tortillas is an Atlanta institution. They've been my favorite buritto joint for years. Just a basic tortilla wrapped around beans that aren't over-seasoned or under-cooked.

The good news:

Palm Pilot Salvation - The boy next door has a spanking new palm pilot that he's never used. I can't believe he doesn't want it but he's selling it to me for a fraction of the cost. Yeah!

The bad news:

Cable was finally switched off so now there's no more television for moi since normal reception sucks here and most network programs are boring and redundant. Anyone want to buy a used TV?

Otherwise:

It's been a pretty good holiday. I had a three-day weekend for Easter/Pesach and have managed to catch up on a few things at home and steal a little time with the nice boy.
I didn't win the bonnet competition, but I had a great meal and good company all day today.

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Last night, the neighbor downstairs cooked and my place was once again filled with steam and fumes that should have been sent outside. I opened all the windows and turned off the heat to avoid wasting energy.

My Palm Pilot died today

Oh, the buttons and pad have been a bit stubborn as it got older, but today when I got home I tried to turn it on to back it up on my computer and nothing happened. I tried new batteries and still nothing. It's my favorite electronic toy, aside from my coffee maker of course. And my coffee maker is brand new. The Palm was a first generation.

You are a Crotch Monkey. You are a very naughty,

vile thing. You are very tiny and cause a
distracting and unsanitary itch. You seem to

favor musicians with attitudes, at least from
what we've seen, because they are always

grabbing themselves, like Justin here.





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No restaurant crawl this week. Everyone is either too broke, depressed or busy working now.
I'm going Krogering for dinner. Thinking of checking out the new Whole Foods tonight as well if there's time.

Today I finally got a haircut. It's been months. Robert was understanding gave not only a good cut but a serious positive reinforcement talk as he cut my hairs. I left feeling much better than I did before the grooming ritual.

And now I am very tired and must sleep.

Downstairs neighbor is cooking again today. bleeehhh.

Fortunately, it's warm enough to sleep with all my windows open now. Yay Spring!

The food party on Sunday great fun. I went with the nice boy and Nick and brought the cookie "pizza" and cheese "burgers". Many interesting dishes: meatloaf "cake" with mashed potato icing, tapioca pudding "sushi" with fruit slice fish. The best were the Thai dumplings as powdered doughnuts - brought in a Krispy Kreme box. There was also a lovely bright red beet sundae with fluffy mashed potato and a cherry tomato on top.

Monday morning I think the neighbors tried to kill me again. I had an incredibly difficult time waking up despite the strong smell of smoke in my place. It was too cold Sunday night to leave the windows open all night. That kind feeling when my body absolutely refused to get up despite me struggling to open my eyes for what seemed like an eternity. Walking outside to leave for work (late, of course) there a propane tank sitting outside the cat lady next door's place. Why - I have no idea. I did put new batteries in my cheap CO2 detector that afternoon.