November 27, 2008

Highlight of the Day:

My sister in law is coming to town tomorrow night. As compensation for the unscheduled visit I have negotiated one “late night out with the boys” credit to be used at my discretion, anytime between here and the end of December, New Year’s Eve excluded.

Lowlight of the Day:

The low of the day was reached very early on. Our landlord who owns the apartment next door, has temporarily installed his tribe in it and they were up at 03:30, perhaps to catch an early mule train home. The patriarch must be wounded because despite relatively thick walls, his penetrating coughing and cackling shook both my wife and I up, and we suffered accordingly. At 7:02, we awoke again, acknowledged the pain and restored some family pride by rotating on our backs and vertically dancing on the wall, Lords of the Dance if only for a minute or two. Yes we knew they were probably gone, but perhaps they had left someone behind, an elder maybe too weak to make the journey home.

Any Other Observations:

My two carrier pigeons, which I feed daily, seem to have reunited after an obvious falling apart. It might just be bird seed to us but recently it seems to have ruffled some feathers.