  It’s KILLING me. Pull the back of your collar over your tie. For me, PLEASE. Also, get a nice haircut. It begins tomorrow. If everything goes well I’ll have my new computer fully functional and all my files transferred to it. I can’t wait. I wish I could afford a DVD burner, but for the price, it’s not worth it yet. I download so many movies and TV shows, it’d be nice to be able to burn them to a DVD, but for now my setup is fine. I can plug my new computer into my TV and watch the video off of that. I pray this is the last season of “Friends”.
I can’t stop watching it because I’ve been at it so long; I need to finish it out. I can’t leave something 90% done; why not finish it so you can have the satisfaction of a job completely done? Buy urlLink Thicke’s CD “Beautiful World.” If you need a reason, he’s Alan Thicke’s son. I need to buy a mower, one of those manual metal contraptions, or perhaps a weed whacker. The lawn isn’t big, but it’s getting shaggy. Jim from “J ‘n’ S Phonographs” has cleaned up my record player and gotten it running nicely. It needed a tune up considering it’s 30 years old. I’ve been looking forward to being able to listen to my records while playing ping pong out in the garage.
I finished Steve urlLink Martin’s new book , “The Pleasure of my Company” and it was good. I read “Shopgirl”, another book of his, not too long ago and I liked it very much. In this new book, he used the word “promptly” way too much though. It’s easy to fall into because it fools you into thinking you’re being humorous in that matter-of-fact style only the British can pull off.
I counted 3 uses of the word on two adjoining pages. I wonder how that slipped by his editor, because it jumped right out at me. A couple days ago I had French fries, ice cream, and some of that Irish cream liquor for dinner while watching 4 or 5 episodes of “Home Movies” in a row. Hurrah! Katie is coming back Saturday. Carmen, Andrew, and I went and played some free mini-golf the other day at Interbay driving range, which is near where we all live. The spontaneity of the decision helped calm my fears of being caught and my rock-solid constitution propelled me to dominate the game ruthlessly. I took 1st only by a couple strokes, but still. Kick ass. Katie trounced all of us last time we went, so it felt good to win, though I wish she had been there to see it. Last time we went I felt under-represented because for the first 5 holes I used the course’s clubs which have cheap, rubber heads and I didn’t do that well.
Layne and I bought our own clubs a while back because we had become obsessed with mini-golf, so I ran and grabbed it out the car and my game started improving immediately, but not enough to overtake her score. I made a nice batch of Phad Thai last night that was very decent. I’ve been practicing since Katie’s been gone; she usually cooks and enjoys it, a fact I’m ecstatic about. I’ve been doing my part as Man by fixing some drawers around the house and cutting things made out of wood. In the near future, vegans will be horrified to learn that tofu is made from the souls of reincarnated animals. 
