No politics. Not a shred. Nope. It's safe to read.

Where to start?

First of all, I love my new teakettle. It's pepper red, it's awesome, and it's slower than Vermont syrup in winter. The box had instructions (who knew?) that advise one shouldn't ever use high heat, only medium at most.

You have any idea how long it takes to heat water on medium heat?

However, the teakettle heats the water VERY hot. I made coffee this morning with the cool drip thing I got at the House of Coffee beans and a pot of water which had just been whistling on the stove. The coffee drips down through the paper filter (containing the coffee) and straight into the carafe. It (the coffee) was HOT. Like, tongue burning lava hot.

It was awesome!

Then, I took off the red bed stuff ('cause I was bored with it after three or four years) and replaced it with the beige. I like it. Now, I REALLY hate the sky blue paint in there.

I also swept, and dusted, and tidied. And as you know, railed about politics a while.

Picked up the dry cleaning. $29 for five pair of trousers and five shirts. Talked to the TV repair guy whose shop is next to the dry cleaner. He thinks that the TV can be easily repaired - I'll have to get Bram to help take it over there. He has a gorgeous Samsung LCD television that I'm really in love with.

This evening, Guy came over to hang out a little - he had a programmable thermostat that is vertically oriented and cooler than the one I already had, which tomorrow is going to the church. Vertically oriented, it covers the wallpaper that was behind the old Honeywell thermostat that we replaced back in March. Then, he went into the attic and balanced the air flow through the air handler - so now there is less air going into the front to bedrooms and a lot more coming out downstairs and into my room. YAY!

Larry and I were emailing today back and forth. He always has something going with his friends; tomorrow, people coming over to his place to hang out and have burgers on the grill. It's just crazy - I sit here most days alone (save and except for my computer) because there's no one to play with or hang out with.

Makes me think about moving to Dallas. Again.

Was talking to David, my best friend from college the other day. I was joking with him that someone in one of my yahoo groups was asking why we hadn't seen any new work from the porn star who is the reason for the group - I knew that said porno person lived in South Africa and was hard to get out of there to DO the work. I suggested to David that porn stars have expiry dates, and his was long past - he replied that he was actually going to use said pornpers in a movie next month, and was just then working on his airline ticket.

So, I pitched in and helped. He was quite stunned that I should know the rough airline connections between Johannesburg and the US; but, I do. I just can't help myself.

Saved him about $600.

It's almost time to head up to bed to get some sleep before church in the morning.