Quick update?
ok.
reading?
The Chinatown Deathcloud Peril. Pulp fiction with an historical twist. Fun stuff.
listening?
The latest Heartless Bastards. Four or so really good songs, the rest pretty good. Loses its steam by the end. But that voice...
watching?
The Wire. First Season on dvd. Easily as good as the best of the Sopranos and Deadwood. Maybe the best television I've ever seen. Seriously, it's the closest TV will ever come to being a visual novel in terms of the depth and complexity of the story and the characters. Not a single false note in thirteen hours.
working?
Hard, but with regular rewards. Got my second raise this year just the other day. I am upwardly mobile lower middle class. I have oodles of vacation time by American standards. No complaints here.
anticipating?
Moving at the end of the month. Yet again! New part of town this time around and I'll be able to walk to things, which will be nice in a city which requires an automobile for almost everything. Also, headed to Florida for two days at a nice hotel on a pretty Island with my sweetie and her folks.
feeling?
A bit melancholy the last couple days. My Uncle Jake died this weekend. We all knew it was coming. He decided against the heart surgery. But he didn't die in a hospital and it was not prolonged. He was a character. A bartender all his life. The bar, the track and the shore were his favorite places. He loved a cigar and a drink. He was thoroughly Philadelphia.
Also, my buddy Big Country moved away to Missouri this week. I'm going to miss him. It felt a bit like the end of an era in my life. But in the meantime a new one has been underway for quite some time now and things are good. My apologies to those I should have been in touch with this past week, things have been a little hectic.
