I know it's excruciatingly boring to complain about the weather, but come ON already! It's May 18, it's been "Spring" for two fucking months, and it SNOWED this morning. Not the small, dinky stuff either it was the crap that collects on hillsides and makes trucks fall into ravines. It has now officially been Colder Than Shit for eight months. I know the Buddhist/AA mantra is to accept the things you cannot change, but fucking fuck!
We spent the day with Dad driving back and forth from Great Barrington, MA in order to get supplies for our new table saw (yay!) and golf balls we can hit into the pasture at the cows (well, we won't aim for them, but whatever). Then the farmhouse ran out of heating oil for the second time in as many days, which meant I had to get a plastic five gallon tank, take three trips to the gas station and fill the damn heating vessel up with diesel fuel.
First off, who knew that the house ran on diesel? There's a pipe on the side of the house where you stick the fuel, giving you the feeling of gassing up the biggest motor home on earth. It reminded me of the Steven Wright stand-up sketch when he talks about accidentally putting his car key into his house deadbolt, starting his house, and driving it down the freeway. Anyway, I doused myself with diesel (those plastic gas cans always suck) and since I had no time to change, I still reeked of gas hours later when Dana and Lindsay came over and we went to John Andrew's Restaurant in Egremont for a swanky dinner.
Did you know that you can run a diesel car on kerosene? I mean, it will run crappy, but you can do it. During my tenure with the '84 white diesel VW Rabbit, I was always comforted by that thought.
The Celextant, May 18, 2002
I forgot to take the pill again today am I just being passive-aggressive with myself or something? Is than even possible? Anyway, I had a orange-infused vodka and soda water at dinner, and I swear I got drunk in about 4.3 seconds. Maybe Celexa amplifies intoxification, although that seems like a pretty mean-spirited side effect if you're taking the drug for addiction issues. Thank God for my lack of addiction to all things except Kit-Kats. Tessa has taught me how blessed I am to be free of those genes. Obviously I have other problems.
Posted by at May 18, 2002 11:54 PM