November 2, 2004

• Happy November, everyone.

  Hard to believe that the year has come to this already. Sky's dark not long
  after 5pm, Halloween's been and gone... A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I
  noticed that a house up the street already has their Christmas tree up
  in their living room. People seem to want everything to happen sooner
  and sooner. I have the feeling that if I went into a clothing store, I
  would probably find it full of spring fashions.

  Life here goes on, as it has a way of doing. I'm trying to find a new
  job, and job hunting is not one of my favourite things. Give me
  whiskers on kittens any day. Because of our various financial
  conundrums, I find myself dwelling on the idea of money most of the
  time, which I find distinctly uninspiring. I've never been one for whom
  the acquisition of money was an end in itself, so to be thinking about
  it all the time is actually rather amusing in an annoying way -- now I
  know what it feels like to be a hardcore capitalist.

  A few developments since I last wrote:

  - My wonderful parents celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversay. I'm
  very grateful to them for providing me with an example of a devoted,
  long-lasting marriage, and all the hard work and difficulties go into
  making such a thing possible. I love them to pieces and miss them very
  much.

  -Progress on the apartment continues to be made. All the cable wires
  are finally hidden in the walls and the coverplates installed. Looks
  nice. Slowly getting through the little bit of plastering that needs
  finishing and then we'll finally be able to finish the painting of the
  walls (the bottom 6 inches on one wall each in the bedroom and living
  room aren't painted, since we had to remove and put back the big
  baseboard moldings to hide the cable wires behind). We also bought an
  excellent paint scraper which finally gives us an effective weapon to
  begin removing all the &%^#% smudges of paint from the wooden
  moldings (the people who previously painted the house must either have
  painted the whole place in 20 minutes or hired chimps to do the job).
  We've got some of our paintings put up, and a bunch of the photographs,
  and it makes a big difference. When the framing is finished in a day or
  two on the latest house at work, I'll be using the scrap to build a new
  cabinet for the kitchen -- 2'x4' countertop for the microwave and small
  appliances, and some desperately-needed cupboard space below. Currently
  -- and I'm dead serious here -- the kitchen has 4 feet total of counter
  space, 2 on either side of the sink.

  -I've added yet another webpage of my musical endeavours, this one devoted to covers. The page is HERE,
  and currently contains an Amelia Curran song I recorded a couple of
  years ago, as well as a Leonard Cohen song from a few weeks ago. I
  think both turned out quite well, and I would love to hear what you
  folks think. There may be a Dylan tune added later this week if I can
  find a free moment to do the recording. For the uninitiated, I'll
  quickly point out that you can also listen to music from Ticklish Brother (my folk-comedy duo) as well as some of my instrumentals and traditional songs. For those of you who have been subjected to these links many times before, my humble apologies

  And so it goes. I have the feeling that there were other things I was
  planning to showhorn into this entry, but I've left it a little too
  long and now I'm too sleepy I'll let you all get back to your busy days, and I'll get back to the last little bit of mine. Thanks for
  reading.

  Take care
  -J-
  

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