New Cities/New Soviets

January 25, 2004

geek out

He who makes a geek of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man...

So this winterizing thing has been going slow, but ahead. But slow, and causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth, both on part of self and parents. I've been periodically suffering from White Collar Stress Syndrome -- acid stomach, irritability, hormonal imbalance. Over budget and behind schedule. But I enjoy my life too much not to enjoy even my suffering, after a fashion; in the end I tire out and just keel over and curse god and myself, laughing.

The enclosure is basically finished. I did all the final construction last night, leaving just a few touch-ups before it's ready to be attached. Meanwhile, the lot has frozen over, leaving me with another problem -- how to get the cart out! "You solve the problems," said Andy; so I will.

I've also been disrupting the tension with a series of intense involvements.
Besides constructing the cart hood (a geek enterprise if there ever was one -- how many hours contemplating the minutea of hardware and equipment) I also:
-Beat three Wario games on a Gameboy Emulator.
-Watched the first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm" on DVD (lovely and hilarious from minute one)
-and the fifth of "Sex and the City" (grim and grating from minute one).
-Read a bunch of Sherman Alexie stories.
-Went to dim sum in Chinatown with an unemployed friend and ate some awesome fried sesame balls with lotus paste.
-Did Jury Duty
-Read Lenin's works from 1903 and 1904, when he was theorizing the Bolshevik party, on advice from the pink one.
-Developed a new recipe, and a new variation on an old recipe.
-Studied Kowloon Walled City

Posted by Sam at January 25, 2004 01:48 AM

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