Three Day Weekend
09/02/07 10:25 AM | Up Chucks
Time. I have more in front of me today than most weekends. What will I do with this bounty of sweeps, ticks, tock and circuits? Well if money were no object (which of course it is and it finds my company objectionable of late) there would be no end to the mirth or mischief I could partake in. Today is the final day of the live theatre Fringefest on Mass Ave., there are 5 buck movies at the cinemaplex, there's terrific weather all about and lots of places begging to be road-tripped to. So many places so little Franklin's for Pace's,
Yesterday I decided to stumble into the garage to straighten and put some tools away. That was a about 10:30. I took everything out of the left side, painted, trashed, swept (several times) built shelves, modified shelves, hung old license plates over the inside of the garage door; something my Great Uncle Curt used to do, he started with plates from Indiana dating back to 1906 or 1909, when they were just like boat tags. The State issued you numbers and made your own. When I was about ten I saw his collection covering an entire wall in his house, he had every year represented and multiples of some, and had started a collection of other states as well. I have plates back to 1992 the second year we were in the house, and with the 4 year sticker deal there are year gaps... Oh, just like putting away tools I have wandered off in a tangent.
In my labors I didn't really eat anything yesterday until 2:36 AM (this morning technically), just toiled away, occasionally doing small outside (the garage) errands like mowing, and watering the garden, but mostly just getting dirty and losing all sense of time and need. At some point around 5PM I had a Jello snack bowl with fruits (about the size of a fist), and a cherry tomato. Today it is about 10:40 again and I will be continuing my toils in garagiva, I will head out there to lose all sense (should I just stop there) of time again after I finish the biscuits and gravy Jenni has brought me. There will be another break when I fire up the grill in the perfect pre-laborday weather. There are no pictures, and less than their thousand word equivalency here so imagine if you will. The theme music starts, Do de do do, do de do do starts, A stopwatch whizzes by, then a door in a frame tumbles past opening just as it recedes to a vanishing point..
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead- your next stop, The Twilight Zone!"
One of the many introductions to the series which began in 1959, there were three others in the original series, and the most recent permutation with Forrest Whitaker (which started in 2002) has a very similar opening to the one I just used. Replacing the That's a signpost up ahead- your next stop, with You're entering...
Yesterday I decided to stumble into the garage to straighten and put some tools away. That was a about 10:30. I took everything out of the left side, painted, trashed, swept (several times) built shelves, modified shelves, hung old license plates over the inside of the garage door; something my Great Uncle Curt used to do, he started with plates from Indiana dating back to 1906 or 1909, when they were just like boat tags. The State issued you numbers and made your own. When I was about ten I saw his collection covering an entire wall in his house, he had every year represented and multiples of some, and had started a collection of other states as well. I have plates back to 1992 the second year we were in the house, and with the 4 year sticker deal there are year gaps... Oh, just like putting away tools I have wandered off in a tangent.
In my labors I didn't really eat anything yesterday until 2:36 AM (this morning technically), just toiled away, occasionally doing small outside (the garage) errands like mowing, and watering the garden, but mostly just getting dirty and losing all sense of time and need. At some point around 5PM I had a Jello snack bowl with fruits (about the size of a fist), and a cherry tomato. Today it is about 10:40 again and I will be continuing my toils in garagiva, I will head out there to lose all sense (should I just stop there) of time again after I finish the biscuits and gravy Jenni has brought me. There will be another break when I fire up the grill in the perfect pre-laborday weather. There are no pictures, and less than their thousand word equivalency here so imagine if you will. The theme music starts, Do de do do, do de do do starts, A stopwatch whizzes by, then a door in a frame tumbles past opening just as it recedes to a vanishing point..
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead- your next stop, The Twilight Zone!"