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Cooling Down

This entry title is dual-meaning.

First, the weather. It decided to become 2C, snowing like mad, with 95kph winds today (I really like this metric system stuff, everybody should use it). In a word, the weather is ludicrous. Somehow, I'm expected to go on a 115km (~70 mile) bike ride on Saturday. When it will be freezing. Shiver...

I've decided to grow a beard again to compensate. This time I'm going for something a little more Stallmanesque, minus the weight gain.

About the only good thing to come of all this cold has been power failures. Tonight, Henry and I were able to exact revenge upon the neighbors in the sweetest (well, sweetest being a relative term for complete tools) way imaginable -- blasting Belle & Sebastian (song title: "Get me away from here, I'm dying" of course) full-blast. During an extended power outage. At midnight. I also screamed like a girl, and banged on all the walls to make sure they were listening. Not that they had anything else to listen to; the power was out.

That's right, bitches, we have a UPS. Actually, several of them. Suck it up.

Tonight I also decided to cool down on the dating thing. I've been going spastic meeting women the last couple of months, which really hasn't been my style or speed. I'll focus my efforts on songwriting instead.

Ask me about my pain.

Besides, if I have one of these, I probably won't be getting any dates for a while. Not that that's bad, as I could use the extra time programming.

I did get a chance to meet one last one tonight, though. She was another Daily Orange feature girl, another member of the Triathlon team.

April is our Chair racer, due to some variety of spinal injury. I didn't inquire about the details, as that doesn't seem to fit in with "getting to know you" conversation. Maybe I'll find out some day.

She's a New Paltz native, with a touch of a Brooklyn accent that makes the whole thing quite bizarre.

All in all a nice week. In the words of Kevin So, I'll catch the next bus.

Posted by reid at November 14, 2003 04:10 AM | TrackBack