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Just let me sleep Maybe summer really is ending. The cooler temperatures today and the onset of rain this evening seem to support this idea. What it means to me is that my house will be more tolerable when I am sleeping. Now that I have all of this free time, the temptation to spend money is strong. It would be so easy to spend a hundred dollars on books, movies and music. I could do all three within an hour, then come home and wallow in my new treasures. Before I started to write this entry I read last year's entry and was amused to find that my habits have changed very little. What caught my attention first is that my diet is almost exactly the same. For supper tonight I had some haddock and a year ago I was eating cod. The other similarities included listening to classical music and looking forward to wearing sweaters. Maybe those are just surface traits and the rest of me has changed. Its hard to say at this time. I spread about three dozen of my cds on my livingroom floor tonight and kept loading and unloading the five disc carousel. My mood would dictate what the next cd would be in the rotation. I'm not sure when I developed this habit, but I have done it for years. I simply lose myself in the music for a few hours. Brenda owned somewhere between a dozen and twenty cds, while I own closer to a hundred. From what I could see, I don't think that music was that important to her. She was a Shania Twain and Garth Brooks kind of woman and at best I think that she tolerated my taste in music. The one comment that I remember her saying was that she didn't think that Shania liked men if you listened to her lyrics. Brenda may have been right there. Of course I have always felt that Shania was packaged purely through her producer husband. When I was feeling evil I would quiz her about the songs on the radio and of course this annoyed her to no end, because she didn't know the answer. Cds were referred to as product in the world of Best Buy and I found this to be sad. Work is testing my problem solving skills this week. They want me to run with a customer problem as far as I can before I have to throw up my arms and ask for help. All of this makes sense to me, because they might be cutting me loose on third shift next week. My boss is doing jury duty until Wednesday, so I have to wait until then to see what he has to say about my progress so far. I finally finished Jacob's Room today and I know that I didn't do the book justice. I read the first half months ago and then put it aside until now. For me the book almost felt like two books instead of one. Maybe I'll read it again in one straight shot. I tend to be leary of those people who have a list of qualifications when it comes to a potential love interest. Life isn't a dating game to me. I don't carry a set of questions with me. There aren't any prizes or gift certificates when it comes to human emotions. Nor do I think that I would be some woman's exact match. The world does not work that way. If I had to choose one characteristic, it would be that the woman had some interest in the humanities. Brenda knew very little about art and she only showed minimal interest in learning more from me. She might say that I am wrong, but she isn't here anymore to argue the point. I paged through my book of pagan days and discovered that Alexander the Great was born yesterday in the year 356 BC. I'm not sure why this interests me, but it does for some reason.
audio input at the moment: the rain falling outside of my window
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