It’s 3AM on another Sunday. 21F outside and light snow, again. I’m just updating with randoms tonight, don’t mind me.
I’m not watching the Superbowl later tonight. It happens to fall in the period where I need to sleep so I can pull an all nighter at work again. Having a lot of these lately and it’s a very different world than what I’ve been used to as of late. I’d start saying I’m Batman and go into a riff about people of the night, except my father is up every night like this. He doesn’t know when it’s night or day any more (he never looks outside), and you can bet when I go down there in a few minutes to feed the animals he’ll be fully dressed and prepared for whatever goes on during this hour of the night in his world.
I’m not dissing his dementia here. He’s always been like that. As a kid I was used to my father going to bed at 6PM even when he wasn’t working. It was his set time for sleep. I always planned for it and if he was in a bad mood it was a blessing to know that you only had to deal with it for three hours after school. I guess my memories of him being around in my early life are kind of screwed up as he was gone even when he was home, off in his night time world where you’d never see him do whatever he was doing.
My mom’s been gone since Thursday on a vacation to see my cousin get married so it’s just been me and dad. With my work schedule, yeah, I’ve been giving in to his madness too. Either up by or still working at 4am every day, so I’ve been out there bringing in firewood in complete darkness so I can crawl back to bed once the sun rises. Feeding the cats so early that I wake Romeo up (lazy bum, he used to be the one who would bug me for food), and get the “daddy, it’s TOO EARLY” face. Yeah. Go me.
I’m kind of upset at NBC’s “The Office.” I know they’re in the last season and all and they didn’t know that when they were planning the season so they had to make due with the loss of most of their major stars (Ed Helms, for example, has been MIA for 2 months of shows now), but the whole “Pam may be having an affair” storyline is just stupid. I know that John Krasinski, who plays her husband Jim, was set to leave the show at the end of the season BUT the backbone of the WHOLE DARN SHOW was Pam and Jim’s love for each other. Ending it without them together after all the years building their romance and their lives together is stupid and a slap in the face to those few of us who have stuck with the show through the years. When they did it with ‘Mad About You’ years ago, it ruined the show because the show was “Mad ABOUT You” and not “Mad AT You.” While it gives the writers something to do with the characters, people tune into sitcoms to escape things from their daily lives and find some place to have a laugh, not to sit through the endless stupidity and heartaches they go through in their real lives.
Plus, the guy playing her potential new love is much too pretty. There, I said it. Seinfeld casting on that one.
Jenna Fischer is an amazing actress, she should get her own show next season as she’s proven time and again she can carry a series. However, let’s not ruin the memory of a show that’s ending just so you can show off how great she’d be interacting with someone else.
I’m not making that much progress with stray cat #2, who has been hanging around outside. King Louis was easy. He started hanging around about two or three weeks before he decided he lived here. Since then, after the first week or so of adjusting to being in the house, he’s been a great cat. He fits the household. He’s gentle when he plays and I’ve finally broken him of sleeping in the bath tub. That was my one complaint. Sitting in the bathroom and having the shower curtain move on it’s own before a black and white creature pops out at me was giving me a complex.
The new stray? He’s eating a lot. I’m assuming it’s him and not the possum. When you go out there or get near the front windows he’ll run like the devil was chasing him across the street and back up the hill to the neighbor’s porch. Getting close to him to bring him inside is going to be a lot of work if I don’t set a trap for him and adjusting to inside might not be great for him. I don’t know. King Louis and Romeo were easy. They WANTED to be around people (though I did have to bring Romeo inside kicking and screaming), but this one, coldest days of the year and he doesn’t want any part of humans. It’s going to take some time.
With that, it’s time to head back into work. Reports to file and shifts to do. Thank you for listening to my rants on an early Sunday morning.
Jim