why does today feel like a friday or a saturday? the day just felt fuzzy. i didn't have any work to do, my clients probably all have the impending holiday on their minds rather than work. it was unusually warm for this time of the year, 60 degrees, downright balmy. i wanted to go running but stayed inside to finish off a few overdue weblog entries. i went to dan's place briefly to empty his mailbox and to check up on his fish, all alive, and the tank has mysteriously become clear again (when he left he told me it was really cloudy). the past few days of darkness must've killed off the algae growth. i went to the brazilian supermercado to buy a case of guaraná. i saw my neighbor bruce, recently returned from pittsburg, here in town until next fall. julie came over with my christmas present, a bottle of aromatherapy ylang-ylang myrrh sensuality foam bath. i went with my parents to do some christmas shopping. i got a sony dvd player (dvp-ns501p) and a copy of turbotax deluxe from costco then we went to target where i got a timex travel alarm clock with temperature reading, a cordless beard trimmer, and a wooden dorm mirror that i'm going to paint and hang up in my living room horizontally. by the time we left everett it was pouring rain. we came back to my place where i ordered pizza and we watched lost in translation on my new player (which by the way also plays all the pirated stuff i've been hording).