What I Did This Evening
May. 10th, 2004 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowThere is an old stereo speaker in my living room, right by the couch. It has been my habit for some time now to set the mail there when I come in, always meaning to attend to it later. Sometimes I do. Usually I don't. As of this afternoon, the stack (speaker plus pile of mail and other stuff) was about as tall as I am. After an online discussion with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
filkferengi, I felt the need to check a certain item which I knew was in that stack. A year and a half down. Of course, I tried to extract it without unstacking. ("Again? But that trick never works!") Mail, books, magazines, and whatnot exploded in three directions, scaring Murphy rather badly. It took me an entertaining half hour to repair the damage. (Murphy supervised, of course.) At least I did get around to sorting it into trash, recyclables, keepers, and things-that-still-need-to-be-dealt-with.
After that, I watched a rather dull season finale of Everwood. The promos gave away too much; about the only things that surprised me were the inane bit with the bagels, and the scene aboard the airplane (which, thank heaven, did not go the way I was afraid it would). There were some nice scenes; Amy was as cute (and as self-centered) as ever, and the final dream sequence was fairly powerful. Other than that, eh. (Yes, I'm aware of the time bomb. I'm not very happy with that - melodramatic - turn of events, however.)
Then I went outside, in hopes of seeing Comet NEAT, which should be visible about thirty degrees up, slightly south of west, in the evening sky. Unfortunately, it's cloudy in that part of the sky tonight. Oh, well, it's supposed to be there, steadily higher, for another couple of weeks.
I've spent better evenings.
filkferengi, I felt the need to check a certain item which I knew was in that stack. A year and a half down. Of course, I tried to extract it without unstacking. ("Again? But that trick never works!") Mail, books, magazines, and whatnot exploded in three directions, scaring Murphy rather badly. It took me an entertaining half hour to repair the damage. (Murphy supervised, of course.) At least I did get around to sorting it into trash, recyclables, keepers, and things-that-still-need-to-be-dealt-with.After that, I watched a rather dull season finale of Everwood. The promos gave away too much; about the only things that surprised me were the inane bit with the bagels, and the scene aboard the airplane (which, thank heaven, did not go the way I was afraid it would). There were some nice scenes; Amy was as cute (and as self-centered) as ever, and the final dream sequence was fairly powerful. Other than that, eh. (Yes, I'm aware of the time bomb. I'm not very happy with that - melodramatic - turn of events, however.)
Then I went outside, in hopes of seeing Comet NEAT, which should be visible about thirty degrees up, slightly south of west, in the evening sky. Unfortunately, it's cloudy in that part of the sky tonight. Oh, well, it's supposed to be there, steadily higher, for another couple of weeks.
I've spent better evenings.
