I decided to take the day off from work today.  After spending about three days of the last week or so doing nothing but takig out hyphens from IRS documents, and after only having hot water for two days since Friday night, I decided I needed a mental health day.  So far today, I've spent most of my energy boilng water. I boiled some to clean some dishes so I could eat cereal, then I boiled some more so I could wash my face and hair. The hair washing required me sticking my head in a bowl of water, applying shampoo, then sticking it back in the bowl. I shouldn't have to live like this.  My landlady came over last night, right after I called her to tell her there was no water coming out of the faucets.  As luck would have it, when she showed up, there was a bit of water coming out.  But it was all cold. Basically, she told me the pipes were cold, and there was plenty of hot water down in the water heater. "Wish I could get to it," i said. She told me to just let the water run for a few hours and it's heat up.  So soon after she leaves, the water stops running at all. Oh, there's plenty of cold water.  But not a drop of hot. This has put me in a very foul mood.  I can never really start my day until I have a nice long shower. And I even went running on Tuesday night. And haven't showered since. So really, for me, it still feels like Tuesday.  Over the weekend, this was less of a hassle, since I just showered over at Miss Charming Melodee's place.  As luck would have it, she's been at ther parents' house upstate since Tuesday, right when the water trouble started again.  She's been a bit sick, so I guess being at home sounded pretty good.  But what about me, and my problems? I swear, some people can be so inconsiderate.
    Every week, I dread going to my guitar lesson. And every week I complain about it. And every week, I go. Every week I decided, maybe I'll just quit. We'll see how the lesson goes. But then three out of four times it goes ok, and I decided to keep at it.  It's not the lesson that I dislike. It's just the pain in the ass of having to lug the guitar into the city, to have to show up to work earlier so I can leave earlier, and most of all, it's the guilt I feel over not practicing.  I'm getting almost nothing out of these lessons by not practicing. I've been there almost a year and a half now, and am probably where I should've been after three or four months.  But the way I look at it is, it keeps me playing the guitar, seriously, at least once a week. I know if I stopped going, I'd forget everything in a month.  Still, i could really stand to save the money.
    Money is an issue right now. Been spending a lot of it.  Miss Charming Melodee has been thinking of buying a computer, which I am all for, since I love new toys.  Since I can't afford a new computer, I thought I'd find a big ticket item of my own to purchase. So I settled on a camcorder, something which I've wanted for a long time now.  And it's sitting on my desk right now.  It cost me a pretty penny, but much less than it shold have.  I had to go through one of those stores listed on Cnet, the ones with the suspiciously low prices. I was a bit worried. But it's here, and after the rebate it'll've cost me less than 500 bucks.  Not a bad price for a MiniDV camcorder.
    Speaking of Cnet, my old SHOE roommate Dan was in NYC over the weekend. He works for CNet out in SF and was here training some people. We had dinner at an El Salvadorian place on Sunday night, called Bahia.  It's tasty and cheap and the people are friendly.  I had been in a terrible mood after watching the Eagles lose the NFC championship game, but this lessened the blow a bit.  So on Monday, I met Dan again, along with former SHOE roommate Aaron and his girlfriend, up at Jake's Dilemma on the Upper West Side. Why we were meeting on the upper west was a bit puzzling to me,  but I figured I should make the jaunt anyway. I hadn't been to Jake's since Jed and I were almost dragged into a bar fight almost two years ago.  can't believe it was that long ago.  Anyway, it was happy hour, and I had a coupla whiskeys, and it was generally a good time.
    Planning on going home this weekend. Taking MCM.  Should be an interesting time of it.  Anyway, I s'pose I should put some pants on now.  Almost four in the afternoon.

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