this just in:

i hate winter.

it's official: i hates me the winters.

maybe i'm in a foul mood today on account of the return of the itchy ears. no, strike that: itchy ear. just one. which leads me to believe the problem is topical and not systemic, not that that helps, since i have no clue what causes it. alls i know is that it's now officially recurring. hooray.

could it be plant exposure? sunlight? toxic sweat? reaction to sunscreen? reaction to pet dander? molds? spiders? crickets rickets cats?

i dont know. it sucks.

also, for the first time since i left home, i wont be spending xmas at my ancestral house. the folks wanted to travel so i'm meeting them Somewhere. i was planning to extend my stay at Somewhere because they're only staying 2 nights. i told them this. they went ahead and reserved a room for me for 2 nights. so much for the extended stay.

i have no gifts for anyone and the clock is ticking. i have no plans for the holiday, i'm busy at work for a change, i'm itchy, and it's too fargen cold out for me to enjoy my outdoors activities. for the first time in a long time i've got urges to move back to the desert.

but i'm not that far gone, yet; i can control those urges quite easily.

i was supposed to make plans with a friend for the xmas break. i was supposed to make plans with the folks for the xmas break. i need to make plans with W for the xmas break. everyone wants to call me to discuss these plans while i'm at home and at home is the only place that my phone doesn't work.

in the winter i play video games. i have only one video game and my computer is still -- even after all the upgrades -- too wimpy to play it. so this winter i don't play video games.

i have a great new coffee table that i like, but i feel like a jerk sitting around. i'm not a "lounger". i don't "lounge". i've "lounged" the past 2 evenings and it sucks. but it's too cold and dark to play outside and my earitch distracts me from more cerebral pursuits.

ooh, i remembered something good: i had a couple sips of sazerac 18 and somehow, miraculously, they were amazingly good. i think it's because i'm hopped up on multiple antihistamines (on account of the ear) so perhaps my sinuses opened up and i could finally taste it (the sazerac) properly. yum.

my favorite video game ever has been rewritten into the public domain but during the rewrite the bastards fixed the bug that made the game playable. i may have to unfix it myself but i don't have the time either to fix the bug or play the game.

barg!