It's one of those gorgeous, sunny bright freezing cold days we tend to get in January. In my mind, December is always dark and starry but January is blindingly bright. It is today.
Josie woke me up from a weird dream (was I here at home, back at the house I grew up in or on Diagon Alley? I couldn't tell) to drive her to school. Whenever I get unnaturally awakened from a dream, I suffer the sleep bends all morning. It's taken three hours and an entire pot of coffee to feel awake and my head still hurts.
So there's no point in going to work, is there?
We had three new windows put into our living room after Christmas. All the south facing double hungs are now new, thermo-paned windows and the room is ten degrees warmer than it was before. No more kite flying drafts whooshing through the living room. One of the windows was so old that it didn't even have a combination screen, just an old wooden storm. We had a new screen combo made for it and the carpenter just finished installing it twenty minutes ago. With the new front door and storm door, and the new windows, it's like a new room.
I really, really like my house.
Which is a good thing, since I live and work here and spend all my time here. Today every inch of the place is filled with sunshine.
I stayed up too late last night, watching Grandma's Boy, at Zack's recommendation. It was funny, but I don't find stoner humor as amusing as he does. I didn't start the movie til 10:30, since we'd been at a basketball game. Jay's team easily handled their opponents and won by twenty. It could just as easily have been fifty.
They only have one regular season home game left. Then it's "Goodbye. Thanks for the memories" and vanishing into the mists of time.
Jay took over the basketball program twenty years ago. The year before, the Marauders were 0-22. Since he and Ron Gates took the reins, the team has had mostly 20 win seasons, been perennially ranked in the top five nationally, won several Conference championships, fielded over a half dozen All Americans and made four appearances at the National Tournament.
And it's all being dropped because
this guy doesn't feel like having sports at MCTC anymore.
If you made a movie about this program, every single viewer would say "That was the stupidest ending I've ever seen."
but I digress.
After dropping Josie off at school, I came home around the lake. The sun is noticeably higher in the sky and farther north on the horizon than it was a month ago. The sky was mostly blue but there was enough of an icy haze in the east to form a bright and beautiful rainbow flair streaking up from the horizon a quarter of the way up the sky.
I have to believe it's going to be a good day.
