Goosed
Rochester, NY 8:48 PM My mind is coming back to me after a long Saturday night at a Christmas party. Tis the season for food and drink. Caytie, Bryan and I lived that motto yesterday. We started off with some of Mom’s lasagna. That of course fills the belly and puts you out of it for a while. After some digesting we went to the party. It was at one of their friend’s house. I hadn’t been that social in the last few weeks. I’m not sure if it’s not having a finished book completed or a job or any of that, but I wasn’t into meeting new people and having to explain the, “So what do...
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Rochester, NY 11:30 PM The days march by. I dabble in this and that. I send proposals and write here and there. Mostly there. Most of the time is spent searching for spots to go and people to meet on the next leg of the trip. There will be a next leg of the trip. When it happens is still to be determined. The library has become my friend. Free movie rentals are what I get most. I also get a lot of books that sound cool. I start them and stop. It is rare they go back finished. I have Walden right now. I just got done watching American Splendor. A very different but cool movie about a guy that...
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Rochester, NY 2:36 PM Snow now blankets the beach. Upstate NY is getting its first winter precip since I’ve been here. We had a dusting around Thanksgiving time, but this is the most wintery it’s felt. It’s pretty to look at. It’s also nice to look to my right and see a fresh Christmas tree sitting there. The ornaments and lights aren’t there, but the tree and smell is. I hadn’t been here for a tree hunt in years, so it was a good time as my parents and I roamed the neighborhoods looking for that special tree. We ended up driving out to the smaller towns and found a house with a...
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Rochester, NY I found a new place for football on Sundays. I had been spoiled by living with my brother a few years ago when we had the NFL Ticket. Any game you want to watch is on there. We used to do our best to see all of them. We got good on the remote. A play would end and bam, we’d be off to the next game. And the next. And the next. I thought we had it good, but I went over to a friend from high school that I hadn’t seen in 5 years or so. We tired to figure out how long, but couldn’t come up with anything concrete. Mike and Andy have always been buds. I entered the scene during...
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Rochester, NY 12:03 PM Reality hit me in the face a few minutes ago. As I sat outside pumping gas into my car, it hit me I was in NY for some winter. A few snow flakes danced around and my breath was evident. I knew I was home because the gas was $2.09. I even saw $2.19 while driving today. My bones were chilled by the wind. I was born and raised in Rochester, but I guess my body is now Southern. I am a wuss. I feel like Randy from A Christmas Story (The main character’s little brother) anytime I go out. I layer up and stumble around. It still doesn’t protect me. I really knew I...
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