I still don’t own a car or furniture or kitchenware, and now if I were to leave in search of decent employment opportunities I guess I’d feel strange about abandoning G’ma to live alone. I think she thinks I’m lazy and maybe a bit of an idiot sometimes (and I’m frankly too lazy to disabuse her of such notions), but at least she’s not alone in the house and we do on occasion have hours-long discussions about cooking that are very satisfying to both of us.

In which this morning was your typical stupid Monday morning. I went to bed early, so I woke up early. Very early. Pre-dawn early. I read for awhile. The sun came up. It was bright and cheery until dawn was complete, and then a valley’s worth of clouds rolled in and there was a 4-minute […]