So if one happened to call the State of Mississippi Tax Comission today, Monday, January 17th, one would learn the exact reason that the offices were closed for the day. It’s a hell of a coincidence, indeed.
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Woke up this morning with no real plan for the day at all. I’d toyed with going snowboarding with Joachim, but a combination of Glen’s cold (currently plaguing Joachim) and Joachim’s habit of leaving his cellphone inaudibly sitting on his bed met the warm front of my inertia at doing a day of painful [...]
Getting up early to go to the gym before work is bad enough.
Worse is getting there, starting to work out, and realizing that someone in the gym smells really bad.
Even worse is realizing that the smell is cat urine.
Approaching the nadir of worseness is the one-two realization whammy that the person whose t-shirt [...]
Great: wearing my rainbow union suit (which I only wear when I’m going out on the snow) and opening the silverware drawer, only to have the trippy realization “hey, the silverware is all colorful and weird and different OH IT’S ME.”
Less Great: mixed dread/anticipation of bruises, humiliation, broken wrists, after Joachim and I have our [...]
It’s snowing today, “chucking down,” as Matt would say, and the roads are slick and drifty. I just got back from a trip to the co-op for last minute supplies for tonight’s locals-only 15th-Night Party. Normally I’d have thrown a party on the 12th Night of Christmas and invited the world, but this [...]