In honor of George Washington, I’ll be starting off the day today with some dental work (yes, I know I said I wasn’t gonna go for a while, but, well, I guess I’m just feeling like Jack Nicholson and/or Bill Murray – by the way, did you know Bill was the bass player in ‘Mr Rogers meets the bass player’? One of my favorites as a young delinquent, and I had no idea – in Little Shop of Horrors). Somewhat ironic to be getting a “crown” on this day, I guess, but it’s more than made up for by the fact that my insurance only pays for wooden ones (and a pretty small amount at that).

Otherwise, it was a fairly productive weekend. Got the snow chains back on the tractor (thanks to about $15 worth of ‘quick links’ to replace the busted, twisted, and stretched stuff), which was good because I had a lot of snow to clear on Saturday, and got 10 gallons of diesel (at $3.72 a gallon, which is a lot more than I paid the last time I got it). Also managed to get my new desk pretty much done – tiles cemented down and grouted, trim installed on the outside edge, though I managed to slobber a lot of sanded caulk all over everything while playing with my new air caulk gun for the first time. Also installed a new ceiling fan/light, which was good because when I took the old one down, I saw the hot and neutral wired skinned and shorted, with three or four “weld” marks on the fan motor housing where. Nice. Especially since the power is coming form 14 gauge wire off a two-pole 20-amp breaker labeled “heater”.

Remind me to change out those breakers.

It was also a pretty good weekend for sports. On Saturday, the SU hoops team (which has been having a rough time of things this season) managed to slip past Rutgers in OT, and on Sunday the lacrosse team won its first game of the season by stomping on Denver (which is good, since they’re coached former Princeton coach Bill Tierney, who I don’t like for some reason, though I can’t recall why at the moment).

Not everything worked out as planned, though. Once again, I failed to install the dual flush adapter on my water pig toilet (good thing I never use that one), and I also neglected to do my laundry. But as I have a rather supply of socks and “dainties,” that’s not a huge problem. And I didn’t get to the grocery store, which I’ll need to do at some point today, ‘cuz I’m kinda out of food. Though once the dentist gets done with me, that may not be a problem.

Oh well, at least I have coffee, which I reckon I have some more of before I look outside to see if we got enough snow to plow.