I had a great start to this Monday. My stupid alarm clock has this weird feature. If you turn the power off, it stops counting the time like it was an old-school mechanical electric clock. BUT IT’S A DIGITAL ALARM CLOCK. Fortunately, the power was only out for about half-an-hour yesterday so I wasn’t that late, plus my mom was yelling at me wondering what I was doing.

One of our family friends passed away today and I think he was only in his 60’s. I think it was the big CA. R.I.P. Chuck Miyake.

And on the flip side of that, many of my friends are having kids lately. Not only that, but my co-worker’s expecting twins, and an online buddy went in with his wife for their 11-week ultrasound and, at the moment, they’re having triplets.

I’m not quite clear on what I’m doing because today’s workout at the gym was pretty simple but awful. Row 250 meters and then run around the building. The whole thing only takes under two minutes, but it’s one of those things where you end up lying on the ground between rounds. We only did it three times, which was enough for me. Afterwards, I was stumbling around and knocking into things, proving to myself that I worked hard enough. In fact, after the last round my stomach and calves started cramping up which was a little more than I wanted from the workout. Fortunately, I feel OK now.

Let’s hope the rest of the week isn’t as exciting as today.

I started out the day with breakfast with my buddy Greg. They tell you the way to stay skinny is to have skinny friends so I’m doomed. I wanted to go to Dockside for Eggs Benedict but Greg wanted to try somewhere different and we went to Besaws. Just like Yakuza, the basic materials were better than we were used to but the final product was not. The Hollandaise sauce was bland and the potatoes were underdone and crunchy. I’m not sure why there are those hour-long lines to get in there for weekend brunch. Yuppies must place atmosphere over food.

Most of the day I waited for the electrician. He was due to come at 3PM on a Sunday which seems odd but he was there by 3:30. He finished up everything I wanted and suggested to me that we run a line through the attic space and you can guess what I had to do after dinner.

So now we have wire in the upstairs west bedroom and the question is what we do next. Insulate, sheetrock, paint, and carpet, right?