It's TiVo day! I hope you are all enjoying having the day off of work in celebration, or is that only me?

Of course, I realized last night on my way home that I had completely forgotten to get the wireless phone jack that I need to run my TiVo, that I actually also need to run my regular dish box, but I have put it off because it generally works without it, except for when they test the line.

Since the guy is coming between 8-12, I really couldn't hang about and get it later, so I actually, here on my half day off, ended up having to get up an hour earlier than usual to drive to Staples and get one. 7a! On a day off! Dreadful.

Actually, though, 7.30a is a great time to visit Staples, or at least the one in North Bergen, because it is empty as the grave at that hour. I asked a guy for a wireless phone jack, and he said, "I don't think we have any of those," but we went and looked and there it was! He looked at it, and then said, with horror in his voice, "O wow, it's $72.99!"

At 7.30 in the morning, the staff tells the truth.

Anyway, $72 or no, I bought the damn thing, stopped at the McDonald's drive-thru, then, for the very first time ever, took the correct turn in the maze of one-way streets and drove home without having to go around to the Lincoln Tunnel and drive home from that angle!

I was very proud. It's only been three and a half years.

Then I had to start cleaning my apartment.

I mean, besides the fact that the TiVo guy shouldn't have to scale the mounds of crap in order to get anywhere near the TV, I just felt that it doesn't matter whether I live like a pig, or that the people who I love and live with know that I live like a pig, but it is vitally important that the TiVo guy, whom I neither know nor will ever see again, doesn't think that I live like a pig.

I have my priorities in place.

So I took my garbage collection outside, and swept up the mounds of crap on which I walk on a daily basis, cleaned the cat box, and am currently sitting here, all proud about how sparkly my apartment is. Of course, the TiVo guy will probably still win the pool for who visited the most disgusting home this month, but comparatively, it's hospital sterile!

Now, if you will excuse me, I have to sit by the door, ears pricked, like a dog waiting for his master to come home.

What's more important, cleaning for strangers or for yourself?

And we are still talking about biking and flirting, and the my job sucks thread has come back from the dead as well!

Today's horoscope:
Time to get away. If you cannot take an actual trip, plan one for the future. Concentrate on how you can be independent.

One year ago today:
And it was being videoed to send to Sabine's parents in Germany, so it was an excellent time to do the most ponderous version imaginable.

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