scoots

i saw a pair of tenni shoes at nordstrom rack thursday night, went back to get them last night. gone. its funny how many people like to talk on their cell phone while casually browsing shoes in a 2 foot ailse.

i sat down for a quick feed, beef stew with noodle. thought it would help with my congestion. soup is the cure all isnt it? until i looked at the slabs of fat, grizzle and who knows what else was in that bowl. i took it all out and ate the noodles.

downstairs larry, my bed ridden neighbor called me at 8am today. his pilot light apparantly blew out again from "the storm" again, i had the same wall mount heater he has when i was in college. that was the middle of wisconsin. you get storms there, and blizzards. i think larry is having his nurse turn off the pilot so he can call me. i have yet to go down there yet, hoping someone else turned it on. but ill still stop in because, well it must be the former alter boy in me.

im off to do some stalking.

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update: stopped into larry's, someone turned on his pilot, so i can leave right? no! "david it appears there was a tornado last night and a large maple tree crushed the band shelter, you heard the thunder didnt you (do i tell him no, because i smoked a big bowl and drank a bottle of wine before bed?) my nurse stephen, was up at 5, actually just before dawn, he is going snowboarding, then the gentlemen from the gas company stopped by, real nice man, the gas company in riverside was different, but in long beach they pump their own gas, so he was here for 30min real nice guy but anyway there was a loose wire in my thermostat.......by the way how is your love life?" scoots heads for the door.

i return after lunch...phone rings, "david its larry, just a couple of things...i wanted to offer my washer and dryer as i see you go out to do laundry.....and i have a maid that comes on sundays, she is very good, trustworthy, $10 an hour, she has a son that is 21 trying to get thru the police acadamy, and her olderst daughter.........(i kinda trailed off so i missed the info on the rest of the her family) but you could come down tomorrow to meet her, do you speak spanish?, because she doesnt speak english, but she is a legal immigrant, and anyway what did you find out about the tree?"

i had to level with larry that it was not possible for a tornado to weave its way from the ocean past 2 blocks of park benches and trees not disturbing a thing, and take is rage out on this one maple tree, drop it in one direction, and vanish. or that was one freaky tornado.