Double Flee A

It's turning into fall here in Minnesota. The weather is an absolute peach, and alas, the days grow shorter. It's a bummer of a trade off, and the slight chill you start to feel in your bones when it begins to cool off here (which is longitudinally north of Toronto), automatically initiates a mental check to see if you know where your jacket is, much in the same way that seeing a careening big rig out on the interstate makes you check your mirrors to see what else is on the road with you that would be better to smash into, should you have to choose.

Those gigantic trucks scare the crap out of me, and I don't like to make people afraid, but the next time you're a pasenger on a two-lane highway, look up at the person driving that truck next to you. When it's winter and the windows get rolled up, you won't be able to see them as well, but for now you should get visual confirmation. Some look normal, but some look like crazed visigoths on about ten pounds of the good stuff.

Another thing to be thankful for, up here in this season, is that the roads are all nice and clear. When they freeze in the winter months it's an ugly scene. Something I normally don't think about, but I sure am glad for all the lovely contact my tires have with the road, short-lived as it is doomed to be. Can't we get a train or something? This is the twin cities; just connect the two, you know, so we don't have to fight and die on that narrow, choked corridor?

Work was a breeze yesterday, in part because I was abstemious at the wedding Friday. It's just better not to be hung over at work or at school. Which for me, means every day now. Which unfortunately necessitates (for the most part) a lack of beer. I don't care about the white man's fire water so much. Liquor can get you down. It's so blatantly "daddy's medicine".

John gets back to town so I won't have to take care of his ferrets any more, which is good. We have stocked his refrigerator, though, so I want to get that cleared out. A new refrigerator will materialize here tomorrow; the landlord is buying us a side-by-side frost-free behemoth to replace our current one.

posted by dale @ 8:19 AM