Tommy's posterous

Truth be told, it's the first time I've enjoyed my deck for a long time.  I spent some time over the weekend cleaning it all up - getting all of the old leaves removed and pressure washing the green wood back to brown.  The experience tonight has only been slightly sullied by my neighbors and their dog, whom I have affectionately named "Assholedog".  Perversely, Assholedog is good (meaning he doesn't bark all of the time) when his owners are outside, annoying me.  I believe it is a far-spread right-wing conspiracy to keep me inside....  My sense of righteous indignation forces me to respond - I will stake out this part of the yellowing world and call it my own.  I can happily say that I have run my neighbors into their own house by playing my rebuttal to their jam-band-crap-music - Neutral Milk Hotel.

Of particular fun on these occasions when I'm outside, is my own beast who likes to drop her ball on my foot to have me throw it for her.  Sadly for me, this is a ploy that works most of the time.  I've attached a little (bad) video that I took of her showing her ball who's boss.  I love the video not because it's good, but because I shot it on the iPhone, uploaded it to Dropbox on the iPhone, edited it in iMovie on my laptop, and am now posting it for your dubious enjoyment, all without standing a single time to go inside.  

I have been working out intermittently over the last two weeks.  Not enough to count yet, but more than usual.  Hopefully this is a signal that my winter hibernation and melancholia is at an end and I will once again be a useful, functioning member of humanity.  I'm not yet holding my breath on this topic, but I am somewhat more hopeful than I have been in recent months.  

And now I'm off to pack up every piece of the life I used to love...and to have dinner.