12/20/08
How come the northeast and the midwest get battered by winter storms but Colorado Springs is largely free of the white stuff? Sure there were bitter temperatures earlier this week and supposedly there's a goodly amount of snow up in the mountains but why can't we have any snow?
concern
Spot is causing me some concern in the past few days. If Friday night / Saturday morning goes well, I'll see about making an appointment sometime Christmas week. Otherwise I'm going to call the veterinarian at 9 a.m. on the dot and request the first-come-first-serve slot.

I'm glad that I'm not running worst-case scenarios through my head. At worst Spot's just a fat cat who has trouble breathing and she needs to lose some weight. Plus it's high time that she got a checkup. Lilah, on the gripping hand, remains elusive but she's warming up to me. Maybe in five years she'll willingly rub against me or maybe jump into my lap.

xmas
Thursday night after I heard the carolers and listened to Bing Crosby's White Christmas I actually felt a minor stirring of Christmas spirit. Kept looking at websites about It's a Wonderful Life and thinking about how neat it'd be to watch Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

It's going to be a lonely Christmas. Meh.

rain
By the by, all fucking Friday I had the Ink Spots's "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" running through my head.

I drove home at lunch to check up on Spot and played the fucking mp3. Usually this is the prescribed method for exorcising a song from one's head but it didn't take. I've listened to this damned song five times, sang along with it about three times and I can still hear their mellow tones in my head.

My current theory for the tune's persistence points to ginko biloba. Tuesday I took three capsules. Friday morning I took three more capsules. I'd like to think it helps my concentration making me a contender for one of the knives in the drawer but my other half vociferously argues this is nothing but a placebo effect and even if it's not an placebo effect then I will have diminishing returns due to building up a tolerance for these supplements.

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