It was a long night with record takings at the bar. I got home at 4:45, less than sober, and woke up to the cat's demand for fresh water some four and a half hours later. There's stuff to do around the house before I go back to the bar tonight for what will probably be an exercise in thumb-twiddling and navel-gazing. I grabbed a T-shirt from the "not publicly wearable but still serviceable" pile, suitable for housework. It was an old trophy and it made me think of Gilly.

Alternate title: Ah youth! Pass the bottle.

A weekend away coupled with a trip into my past.

Once upon a time I had a blog on my own website but those posts are now archived offline. I made a handful of good posts there and now I want to post them to HuSi. What follows is the first of these pseudo-cross-posted blog entries. The post has been gently edited, lightly foot-noted, and lightly spritzed with Febreze^tm.

An observation on the perception of time. Clicking around from the IMDB Bottom 100 list, I got to Spice World. Those girls were big in the pop world not that long ago and some of them are still making headlines. I wouldn't expect the spotlight comment in its IMDB entry to be titled like this: