Checklist

Parts of the daily routine:

• Where's A.? The landscaping has been nuked, numerous projects started, but incomplete; now it's time to reassemble!
• J. the plumber will fix the solenoid valves. Yay!
• Should I remove the dead possum from the yard? I remember when a mouse died in the furnace at the house on 40th Street, and since it was July, all we had to do was shut the vents and wait till October. Anyway, the possum's been there a week already, smell greatly diminished by now; see no immediate need, but OK. Done.
• Watch the DMV workers on their daily 10 a.m. constitutional walk during their coffee break, as they walk past the house. Today, as I watered the landscaping, I overheard one woman tell her friend, just as they passed by, that there are many things she doesn't tell her husband. "Like what?" I wanted to ask, but kept my mouth shut.
• Ah! Found the DMTC checkbook register! It fell on the floor - never thought to look there for it. Too much trouble to pick it up, though. If we'd let checks 'bounce', I wouldn't have to bend over so far....
• Fence is progressively toppling over in the back yard. Where is Michael Campbell when you need him? (he did the repair on that fence in the front yard in 2004)
• What are those workers digging for, under the pavement, down the alley? Oh! Looks like sewer trouble!
• Eat lunch at 'Subway': 21st & J Street. Been eating lunch there nearly every work day since 1997. Reminisce about the good old days - Monica Lewinsky and all.
• Do some work.
• Best part of day; hopping around with beautiful women over at Pepper's, T & Th. Worst part of day; hopping around with beautiful women over at Pepper's, T & Th.
• Drive to Davis.
• Learn lyrics to "Oklahoma!" I remember climbing the highest point in Oklahoma once, with W. & J. Fresh air; good time, high on Black Mesa in the Panhandle, right next to the NM border! Met the two teenage rancher women, since we were crossing their land. One was wearing a turban (she had just come out from the shower), and she had a mouth full of chewing tobacco. Yum!
• Flinging garbage out of DMTC's New Theater. For such pretty people, we generate the foulest stuff, sometimes.
• Bring some DMTC historic memorabilia, and other detritus, home for safekeeping.
• Shred more and more of K.'s paper. Cloudy keeps me company; it's good master-rabbit bonding time.
• Throw crap away.
• Don't forget the nightly walk for Sparky; good master-canine bonding time.