Month: July 2005

My sister returns to the living room, where she has been reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I was cooking dinner in the kitchen, which is attached to the dining and living room in one open great room. To no one in particular: “Hey, so what is <magical term that might be vaguely spoilery>…

I talked to my landlord today, and he mentioned that he had some difficulty depositing my security deposit, saying that there was a name mismatch between my checking account and my SSN. I called Bank of America, where I opened my new account, and discovered that my last name and middle name got swapped! I’d…

I’ve been rather busy packing up my life. It’s a time-consuming activity, one which raises questions like “how did I get so much stuff?” and “how did I get the money to buy so much stuff?”. In spite of packing, I did have time to attend that Harry Potter party, get a copy, and read…

It is two minutes after midnight here in Minnesota. There was just a knock on the basement door. It was my sister’s friend Kitty, carrying a pillow. A point about the basement door: accessing it requires traversing a fair amount of wet (because my dad was precisely aligning sprinklers all evening) grass. I guess Kitty…

My dad’s birthday dinner was tonight. He selected Old Chicago as our no-one-has-to-cook destination. I consumed a weiss whose name I do not recall at the moment (it was on the chalkboard), and one of my standby American favorites, Goose Island Hex Nut Brown Ale. I think the name appeals to my inner (or perhaps…

I’ve been feeling much better over the course of today. I think I can safely say that a sore throat falls into the most hateful of cold symptoms. Body ache I can ignore or drug, sneezing is probably much more bothersome to others, a runny nose just raises the stock price of Kleenex’ parent corporation,…

This morning I actually got outside to go golfing at the local Par 3 course with my dad and a few of his Breck teacher co-workers. Normally they have more players, but I guess a number of them were busy, which is why there was space for me to tag along. I haven’t played in…

Ugh. Urgh. Bleargh. The slight sore throat and cough that developed while I was getting far too little sleep during my Boston jaunt has turned into a delightful skull infection of some sort. Three days ago, my right eustachian tube was swollen and plugged. Two days ago, it was my left. Now I have all…

Yesterday morning I went back to Belmont Center to the offices of Ingram Realty to sign (I almost typed sing… that would have been interesting) my lease and shell out the first month’s rent. I guess that’s all taken care of now. I got that all done fairly early in the morning, so I just…

In the grand tradition (2 whole posts) of starting posts about Boston by complaining about public transit, the 3-day Visitor’s Pass stinks. It’s by date instead of time, so when I bought my pass at 8 pm on Tuesday, it covers Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, including the 20 hours on Tuesday when I didn’t use it,…