Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Last night I got clobbered by a headache -- didn't even manage to deal with the litter box and the trash before I crashed (this morning was trash day). Today I'm doing better than that, but still a bit "off my game" -- it's not going to stop me from going to the concert tonight, but I don't seem to be getting much done beforehand. Anyhow, several days ago I popped open a bunch of browser windows with views of my friends-page back to skip=980 (as far as that type of view goes, since I view 20 entries per page), figuring I'd read forward and get caught up. Except that because I've been alternating tired and busy, it's taken me so long to get up to Friday, 2005-02-25 (at skip=700) that by the time I finish reading these open windows and open another set, I'll have missed some entries that are more than 1000 back. So I'm officially punting on catching up on the end of February / start of March, and will just accept that there will be gems I've missed (until some hypothetical future date when I become super-organized and do away with the need to sleep, and read all my friends' journals from their first entries to the present and comment on each one ... but don't hold your breath).

The workers next door have stacked all the wood from the demolished fire escape in the back yard, and noisily scooped, shovelled, and carried the rather impressive mound of trash that had been behind/under the fire escape to someplace else in some unknown number of garbage bags. I'm impressed by how much can be moved by enough people who know what they're doing. Every so often I hear power tools, but I haven't seen what they're using when I do. Just now I heard some comments along the lines of, "That's holding it up," followed by, "Dude, that's a load-bearing vine!" (The vine in question might be morning glory, but is most likely wild grape. The grape vines back there are quite robust.) I think I'm going to have to go take a peek and see what they're working on now.