I have mastered the challenge.  I have climbed the mountain. I have achieved the peak.
   All of the dishes in my apartment are now clean.

   No, you don't understand. This is a big and important thing.  No, this isn't where i go into how i am a bachelor and haven't cleaned the dishes since 1978.  I do do dishes on a semi regular basis.  And in fact i have been doing just as many dishes as normally do. 
   However, 2 days before New Years i had a dinner party that dirtied enough dishes to fill my entire kitchen, head to toe.  In the two days after this i did 4 sinks full of dishes, which cleared the counters but left the table completely covered.  Mostly, oddly enough, with glasses. 
   Then i cooked a big meal again, for a couple of friends.  Well this created 4 more loads of dishes, which i did, in the next couple of days.  Would you believe i then cooked a big meal again?  No, really.  I did. So i kept trying to catch up.  And i kept failing.  I mean, i do not try to hide the fact that i am kinda lazy.  At any time i could have done the 10 loads of dishes.
   Well that's not even remotely true, at any time someone else could have done the 10 loads of dishes.  So i kept working at them.  Yesterday i did 5 loads.  Tonight i did 5 loads.  and right now, as i sit here, in the drying wrack are 21 glasses marking the end of the all the stacks. 
   Hell, i even washed the 3 new mixing bowls i bought today.  How's that for cool?

   This weekend was a good one.  I didn't really do all that much.  NO wait!  That's not true at all.  Friday night i went to a Bingo Birthday Party.  It was a friend's 25th birthday and we decided to do something a little different, a little strange, a little tawdry.  Planet Bingo is a Bingo parlour that is 3 floors high.  There are big glass walls to lock out the smoke and one whole floor is actually non-smoking.
   The entire place is deathly quiet, or was until myself and my 14 Bingo virgins entered the place and began to whisper loudly for the entire night.
   We had all dressed rather, um, cheap.  Tacky?  Trailer-park.  Something like that.  Suffice it to say my jeans were ripped, too tight and i was wearing plaid.  We went to a cheap, line up with a tray at the counter for your food, diner before and ate.  We all had secret bingo names.  Only they couldn't be really all that secret, what with there being name tags that we were wearing and all. 
   My name was '<clap> <clap> N - G - O'  Others included, 'the manx,' 'thefar marand' (her real name is adelle), 'dob dobberson,' 'kris-kross kristina,' 'forty-sixer,' and 'scooter prop-top.' 
   It was a lot of fun.  We had no idea what we were doing.  We got free stuff from the place for being a party.  Granted i never would have chosen a pink dobber on my own but free, it was a very nice present.  And the best thing, Friday night was 'hour of power' Friday.  Which means 10 games in a row were $1000 each in the pot.  Considering one of the earlier games that we played paid out $67 this was pretty good.  One of us won bingo, had to share it and took home $500, that was pretty cool.  That was exceptionally cool.

   Yesterday was also nifty. I spent a bunch of money i don't really have.  i bought some clothes, some new hardware for my bathroom, finishing the conversion to nickel plated umbra hardware in there. A new cork screw and the amelie soundtrack.  Then today i bought a new stainless steel bowl and two no dual purpose mixing/serving bowls.  Very nice.

   Does someone wanna come over and fold my laundry so i can sleep in my bed tonight?

   Question of the Day - How often do you laugh aloud when you are alone?  When you are watching TV?  Reading a book?  Reading your Email? Surfing?  When you are chatting and actually say LOL?  I practically never ever laugh out loud when i am alone. 

   A tease for you...this slipped out this evening. I will have to explain it further later this week.

Life will be more exciting tomorrow.
I'm not attractive enough for her.

Phew. Ok that slipped out. Maybe by saying it it will stop floating in and out of my head. It is weird how it is so easy to have stuff in your head that you don’t really believe that is constantly ready to attack you when your defences are down.