Warm today. Warm yesterday. Sun shining. And I woke up. This is a diary.
Woken by the radio. Snoozed once. Dragged myself out of bed and stumbled into the bathroom. Went back to the bedroom and grabbed my glass from the night table. Stale water (need a refill). Back in the bathroom I poured a fresh glass of clean potable water from the tap. I drank it. It's nice to get that thick feeling and taste of sleep from your mouth.
Then I brushed my teeth. I'm so lazy. There is always hairspray usage in the bathroom, right in front of the mirror above the toothbrush caddy. Are years of hairspray consumption via toothbrush deposits dangerous? Who knows. I won't drink from the bathroom cup for the hairspray reason, but I'll be damned if I'm moving my toothbrush.
A hot shower. 100% reliable hot water. Every morning. Life is good even when jobless.
Feeling refreshed I make my way to the kitchen and grab an apple fretter from the bag and start up the coffee maker. Then I go over to the desk and sit at my computer. Pondering as oft I do "why the fuck can't I get rich off this thing?". I surf the news, some job sites, then start tinkering with code. I like making games in my off time. But lately the constant flow of new information distracts me too much. I keep having to check things and check things and checking... because maybe something has changed or been updated. Sometimes I wonder how I'll hold a job with such a complete lack of focus.
We all get free H1N1 shots now so I guess I'll take a bus down to get one. I'm leaving early and the bus goes past a school. Children are actually walking to school here. Just like I did when I was a kid. Nobody is shooting at them and they aren't going to shoot eachother. This is Canada afterall. (insert pun here, regarding getting shot with vaccine). I actually thought about Sarajevo in the 90s as I went by. What proportion of kids in the world have life this good?
I decide to stay out all day and take care of errands I've put off for some time. I take the bus home at rush hour. In the back someone starts mumbling louder and louder. He begins to talk about killing someone. Everyone is looking at each other and avoiding looking at him. Wasn't it last year that some nutcase cut off someone's head on a bus? Yes, and our mumbler remembers that and starts threatening it to nobody in particular. Unlike most progressives I like a fight and this guys was really starting to piss me off as some people on the bus (myself included) were clearly frightened. I took a look around and counted four other adult males. We all make eye contact with each other. Mumbler isn't going to get away with shit. Then the bus stops, mumbler gets off alone and that is the end of it.
On my walk home a rabbit hops by. His coat is turning white for winter. But I wonder, shouldn't evolution turn city rabbits dark in the winter so cars don't hit them. After all, they have no natural predators this far inside the city limits. Maybe they are hiding from kids.
Ah, my wife is home with dinner ready as I walk in. The goddess of microwave cookery. I'm not complaining in the least. In fact, if I didn't read the news on the web I would have no reason not to be happy.