Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Work, Ride, Don't Kill The Dog. It gets repetitive." -- xpioti, 2004-01-09

Not catching up on comments just yet. Soon.

Something just exploded in southwest Baltimore, just as I started to write this. But I don't see smoke or hear sirens. (Maybe it was something that was supposed to blow up? I don't have a clue. I only know that it was house-shaking loud, and low-pitched.)

Missed rehearsal last night because I felt just dizzy enough to have second thoughts about driving. I wasn't completely sure it was bad enough to warrant staying home at the time, but it turned out to be the right call -- two hours later I was feeling worse and was really glad I wasn't trying to drive home.

Tomorrow I'm due in court to be yelled at for not paying a bill that I simply haven't had the money to pay. I'm nervous. I have no idea what can happen there, and whether the judge can make things worse than they are. It's not like I don't want to pay; I do owe the money and have no beef against the company. It's just that the only way I could have paid it by now would have been to let my electricity get cut off and my car insurance lapse, and I need both of those to have any chance of continuing to bring in the tiny amount of money I do earn. (As it is, I've already got the next cut-off notice from Baltimore Gas & Electric.)

This is one of those "money wouldn't solve all my problems but it would certainly solve some of them" things.

The fact that court is scheduled for earlier than I'm usually awake doesn't help.

I'm going to go lie down for a spell 'cause I'm feeling dizzy again and I do want to make it to tonight's rehearsal. Both bands have gigs coming up soon (The Homespun Ceilidh Band is playing at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival this coming weekend, and Thrir Venstri Foetr is playing at Fairy Festival the following weekend) so missing either rehearsal is ungood, and missing both would be worse.

I suspect that my dizziness is allergy-related. My sinuses are doing uncomfortable things, my nose is doing occasionally-icky things, my lungs are congested enough for me to notice (not enough to go to an emergency room, but I bet I could measure it on my peak flow meter), and this all makes more sense when I look at my car and see how much pollen has collected on it.

At least the temperature is nice today.

Hmm. I just heard a helicopter go past, and sirens, but they're distant. I went upstairs to have another look, and the helicopter is circling far south of here, far enough to be an almost-helicopter-shaped speck in the haze. Maybe whatever went kaboom was actually outside the beltway? (Or, of course, perhaps the sirens and helicopter are unrelated to what I heard.) I guess I'll watch the 4:00 news and see whether they say anything about an explosion.