January 3, 2006 - A New Year
I sincerely hope that everybody had a happy holiday season this year. Mine was for the most part nice and quiet. On Christmas Eve Jim and I hit the road in my Buick to go down to Connecticut to see my dad and his wife, Joyce. Jim and I got him a computer printer and a DVD player.
My dad tends to be very anti-technology and he requested the printer because his boss had forced him to get one and in his stubbornness he refused, but asked me to get him one for his gift. I agreed even though we had gotten him the DVD. My lord was he unhappy when he unwrapped it (the DVD player). I had anticipated this beforehand, so I declared the gift to him AND Joyce, so when he tried to make me take it back Joyce put her foot down and basically told my dad to back off and that they were keeping it. Dad's suspicion of the player seemed to vanish pretty quickly when Jim and I hooked it up and showed him how to use it.
We may have stayed another day or so but I had to go back to work between the 27th and the 30th, so we came back on Jim's birthday. Before leaving the city we had grown up in, we drove around for about a 1/2 hour. It is on days like that when I can really believe I moved from there 10 years ago. I almost got lost a few times in areas I used to know very well. Jim would mention street names, and they would hold just no meaning to me, just a familiar name. Some streets were perfectly known, other completely forgotten until we were on them for a few minutes.
Back in Maine on New Year's Eve, Jim and I watched the ball drop in Times Square on TV and heard the heart-breaking voice of what sounded like a half paralyzed Dick Clark on ABC. Every year I watched his 'New Years Rockin Eve' and while I thought last year was strange without him, this one was shocking. I had imagined Dick Clark always being around for some reason, but New Years Eve kind of slapped me in the face.
Also that night I had a carbohydrate blow-out in preparation of the diet I started 1/1/06. Of all the numerous diets out in the world today, I choose the Atkins. It seems like a good concept and I have a supervisor at work who has been on it for 5 years and he swears by it, so here goes.
There is not a great deal happening other than that. I'm still at a bit of an impasse with Dee and Tess, however I did overhear Dee talking about some guy and making a reference to be dating him, but that is just hearsay at this point.
My dad tends to be very anti-technology and he requested the printer because his boss had forced him to get one and in his stubbornness he refused, but asked me to get him one for his gift. I agreed even though we had gotten him the DVD. My lord was he unhappy when he unwrapped it (the DVD player). I had anticipated this beforehand, so I declared the gift to him AND Joyce, so when he tried to make me take it back Joyce put her foot down and basically told my dad to back off and that they were keeping it. Dad's suspicion of the player seemed to vanish pretty quickly when Jim and I hooked it up and showed him how to use it.
We may have stayed another day or so but I had to go back to work between the 27th and the 30th, so we came back on Jim's birthday. Before leaving the city we had grown up in, we drove around for about a 1/2 hour. It is on days like that when I can really believe I moved from there 10 years ago. I almost got lost a few times in areas I used to know very well. Jim would mention street names, and they would hold just no meaning to me, just a familiar name. Some streets were perfectly known, other completely forgotten until we were on them for a few minutes.
Back in Maine on New Year's Eve, Jim and I watched the ball drop in Times Square on TV and heard the heart-breaking voice of what sounded like a half paralyzed Dick Clark on ABC. Every year I watched his 'New Years Rockin Eve' and while I thought last year was strange without him, this one was shocking. I had imagined Dick Clark always being around for some reason, but New Years Eve kind of slapped me in the face.
Also that night I had a carbohydrate blow-out in preparation of the diet I started 1/1/06. Of all the numerous diets out in the world today, I choose the Atkins. It seems like a good concept and I have a supervisor at work who has been on it for 5 years and he swears by it, so here goes.
There is not a great deal happening other than that. I'm still at a bit of an impasse with Dee and Tess, however I did overhear Dee talking about some guy and making a reference to be dating him, but that is just hearsay at this point.
posted by Matthew Shine at 4:05 AM
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