Sixteen Days Left

Yesterday was Bosses’ Day, one of those Hallmark holidays. Fortunately I like my boss so I didn’t mind saying nice things about him on the greeting card.

After work I talked to a New Accounts person at my bank. He confirmed that it would be best to wait until Aged Mother is here to do any more banking wrangles. Even though my bank has branches in other states they can’t really trade funds around that easily. We’ll just have to set her up with an account when she gets here and then transfer her direct deposits and savings over the course of the next month. We’ll be able to walk A.M. through all that and then track everything by phone or internet.

Finished the art for the ad that The Black Seal will be running in The Book of Dark Wisdom. Probably got two dozen illustrations (for magazine and website) to go before I’m done with my work on issue three. Sleep is for humans.

Seventeen to Aged Mother

Picked up a box spring to go with the mattress we’ve already got. It doesn’t match. Not a problem though; we can just switch it out with the box spring that we’re using on our bed. It’s the original b.s. that goes with the mattress for Aged Mother. The box spring that goes with the mattress we sleep on wouldn’t fit down the stairs so we jury (jerry?) rigged a b.s. and foam combo.

D.I. was out of single bedframes. Not a problem either. They gave us a sheet of plywood and we’ve got cinderblocks in the garage. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve hacked together furniture. It’s a skill I learned from A.M.

Picked up a reading lamp, end table, mattress pad, sheets and a blanket. Also got a few sweaters for A.M. to layer on when when it gets cold. A.M. would probably say that wasn’t necessary so I probably won’t tell her until she gets here. Better safe than sorry.

Eighteen To Go

Picking up more furniture tonight. Also supposed to pick up extra clothes. Shopping for my mother? What size is little old lady?

Will stick with coats and sweaters I think.

Nineteen To Go

Last night Nizzibet and I went and picked up a television that TwoM had in storage. We figure that with Aged Mother here we’ll want to spend more time at home. That means less movies at the theatre and more watching videos/DVDs in the living room. I don’t think that we’ll be getting cable back. The only show we thought we watch this season was Angel and since we’ve missed the first few episodes now we’re planning to just catch up when it comes out on DVD in a few years. And Aged Mother hasn’t watched TV in quite a while herself.

Twenty Days and Counting

Aged Mother will be arriving on November 2nd. Esteemed Brother will be flying up with her on Sunday and returning to the Bay Area the next day.

If I didn’t have a life I’d pick up a bottle Cuervo Gold and a pack of clove cigarettes on my way home. Then I’d alternate sitting on the porch smoking with sitting in the basement writing, drinking the whole time. Ideally it would rain.

I love my life. And I miss the days when I didn’t have one. Viva Los Gemini!

Found more google listings for namesdatabase.com this morning. Maybe I wasn’t putting in the correct info yesterday? Still, there’s nothing showing that has someone talking about the site. Not really. There are some text pages that look like a form email from the site and a couple of mentions in people’s blogs. The mentions don’t say if the site provided them with what they were looking for. Still suspicious.

There’s something called the Names Database at namesdatabase.com. According to my paranoid mind it’s some sort of name and email harvesting engine. I ran across it in my semiregular googling for old friends. Lo and behold, a friend’s name showed up in their little google snippet. That was unusual right there. Bernice Jinkerson doesn’t show up anywhere.

Thing is, in order to long on to the Names Database you have to give it the names of five people. But if you give it a name it’s already got, it asks you for another name. And another. I never got to the Important Page that I was looking for because, after feeding it a dozen email addresses I gave up. No worries anyone, I didn’t give it your address. I made up addresses. A random name generator could do that.

The weirdest part is that there’s no other listing in google regarding “namesdatabase.com”. Even more suspicious.