But first: Wednesday I probably had my best personal game of curling yet. I made over 90% of my shots, and we managed to win against a very well-matched opponent. I curl again Sunday, and cannot wait.

Yesterday I had a supremely lazy day with mindless movies (specifically, Men In Black and My Cousin Vinny), games and so forth.

Until recently I had not ever read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and I am glad to finally have done so. I also read the mindless brain candy of Iorich, Brust’s latest Vlad adventure. No idea what to pick up next, but with as little reading time as I’ve had lately, it almost doesn’t matter.

Speaking of: tonight there will be delicious nachos, Lost, Catan, and probably some Burnout Paradise or other such silliness. Tomorrow, we have very few plans other than to kill zombies with Tom and Emil (and maybe Chris) in the evening*. Probably need to do a bit of food shopping, and cleaning and so forth. Whee! Sunday, my curling team has a bye this week, but I am subbing for another player on another team, so I will play anyhow, which will be good, provided the weather doesn’t shit all over us.

Random note in my notebook from a couple years ago, which I just flipped to:

p. 30 – I do not agree that the void is reason to despair. AS darkness is needed to cotnrast light, nothingness is needed to truly appreciate existence. Eternal existence is (apart from evidently [ed: from evidence] being not true) BORING. The void is comfortless, maybe, but comfort isn’t a property the void can express. It’s a VOID: there is no comfort, nor pain, in it. I abhor his conclusion that the void is a beast whose presence necessitates either eternal life or despair.

And with that, I have a few things to finish before I leave work today.

++E

*This is another one of those “holy hell” moments to me: that I can play a cooperative game with a friend in the United Kingdom, and my brother who lives in Georgia, in real time while hearing their voices in exclamation and laughter. Thank you, technology!