Black and Blue

Sorry I missed my regularly scheduled posting on Sunday. It rained here all weekend and that plays havoc with my phone lines and I couldn't keep a connection. It kinda sucked. Oh well. How it goes sometimes. Aside from the rain, the weekend was pretty good. I worked for a few hours on Saturday and the rest of the time just hung out with TNI. He was supposed to leave on Sunday to go back to the ATL for awhile, and I was really kinda bummed about it. Fate took pity on me and conspired with me to keep him here for one more day though. I dropped him at LAX and like 1/2 an hour later got a call saying he wasn't going to get out until the next morning. Woo Hoo! Call me selfish, but I was glad he had to stay one more day... even if it meant getting up at 5:15 on Monday morning to take him back to LAX before I went in to work. By staying one more night he also got to be witness to me getting head-butted by my dog. Roland and I were fucking around and we both sort of dove for each other at the same time. Skull met skull and almost immediately a big welt swelled up on my forehead right over my left eye. It hurt like a bitch. I got ice on it right away and the swelling went down, but I'm now sporting a lovely purple bruise. S-boy was throughlly amused by it when he unexpectedly dropped by the shop today to take me to lunch. He had some bruises of his own to show off as well. Apparently I almost lost him to a horrific car accident last week. For any of you that know LA, you'll know the stupid, fucked up 6-way intersection over by the Beverly Hills Hilton. It's confusing and drivers usually just make up their own rules when they get to it. Well, apparently S-boy was sitting at one of the stop signs minding his own business when two cars ran the intersection at the same time. They plowed into each other hard enough that one of the cars flipped over and landed on top of S-boy's Jeep. Thankfully he was ok, but his Jeep was practically totalled. Scary... So we wnt to this nifty little restaurant called Cheebo that I'd heard great things about, but never been to. It rocked. Robert Downey, Jr showed up and was trying to be incognito in a baseball cap and sunglasses but wasn't really fooling anybody. Apparently they get a lot of celebs in the place though so no one really seemed to care... So that's the report for this week. Work is still pretty busy. I'm working again this Sat and then am going to go see this Russian horror film called "Night Watch." S-boy and I talked about trying to go see "Capote" this weekend too. I also need to go look at an apartment... Did I mention I'm thinking about moving? There were 2 nights last week that it took me almost 2 hours to get home so to say that I'm "over" the commute at this point would be putting it mildly. So anyway, I found an apartment complex that's like 3 miles from work. They have covered parking, a fitness center, and most importantly, allow big dogs. It's a little more $$$ then I'm paying now, but I'll save enough in gas to cover the difference. Hopefully that'll work out. I'm just going to get a studio for now and then once TNI gets back out here full-time we'll get a 2-bedroom in the same building. That way I only have to move like across the hall or something and that won't be too bad. It's not like the nightmare of having to rent a truck and everything then. Did I mention how much I miss TNI already? My apartment seems very empty and my poor dog has a serious case of the blues. I think Roland misses him even more than I do :) Ok, I'm going to finish watching some figure skating and then am off to bed. Everyone have a good rest of the week!

"The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us that we are still alive after all." -- Stephen King -- "The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla"