Wow, yesterday was great, gang. Just really productive.

The furnace guy came right at noon — the moment I was finished vacuuming, in fact. And while he was down in my 124-year-old scary basement, I got some other housecleaning chores done — ones that I hadn’t done in a long time.

I washed all the lace curtains! I think that was only the second time I’ve washed them in the 7 years that I’ve lived here! This astounds me, because in the old house, I washed them at the start of every Spring.

They are all so white now that it really makes a difference in how the rooms look. And having these new glasses helps me to see stuff that had gotten really dusty that I hadn’t noticed before. So I was really happy about that. (No, I’m not exactly a neat freak, but I do like to keep this old house as clean as I can because of all these CTAS!! Sometimes spelled “CATS”.)

And I got a GREAT idea yesterday!

I could apply for a license to sell coffee and tea and turn my home into a Cat Cafe during the day!! (Then maybe people would actually come visit me, but I won’t hold my breath…)

Anyway…

So, I’m happy. And the furnace guy said I have a couple more years before I need to think about getting a new furnace. So, yay! (Oh, and he didn’t die on the 124-year-old collapsing basement stairs! Double-Yay!!)

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Yesterday, I also decided to turn this “going to see Keanu’s new movie” into a new adventure.

I discovered that there is a mall that is only 12 miles from me — a regular, old-fashioned mall. Like the ones from the old days. It’s right here in this county but I have never gone there before, or even heard of it until yesterday. (It’s off in a direction that I never drive in.) And it has a Cinemark where Keanu’s movie is not only playing, but they also have MATINEES!!! Yay! No driving after dark, when I can barely see!

And when I looked it up on Google maps, I saw that to get there from here, I would use a couple of backroads that I’ve always been curious about seeing. So I will get to see those views, finally, when I go see the movie on Monday afternoon. (I already bought my ticket to sort of ensure that I would go and not second guess myself and stay home.)

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So, I have a going-to-the-mall-to-see-a-movie adventure coming up.

And tomorrow!! Me and my favorite Q-following girlfriend are meeting for lunch at our usual place after my shift! Yay.

So my life is sort of weirdly nice right now. Especially weird, considering all these caregiving shifts I have for the remainder of October.

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Here’s this!

From Instagram.

John Lennon’s boyhood home (he lived with his Aunt Mimi after his mother died).

The upper room with the light on is John’s old room, and apparently they always keep that one light on.

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And here’s this–

Keith at his home in South Salem NY, in 1978.

Photos of Keith from the late 70s were so cool to me, gang, because he was finally off of heroin (for good, it turned out) and he looked so different than he had looked through most of the 1970s.

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Okay, so that’s really kind of it.

Sandra is currently busy with a very quick theater thing Off-Broadway in NYC. So, really, all I need to do is decide what I want to work on around here until her schedule frees up again in November.

I think I’m just sort of waiting for the Muse to land on something and then I’ll run with it.

Meanwhile, well, life is just really kind of nice. And I’m gonna head out here soon to go see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man. We’re just going to hang around the house today because it’s chilly and he doesn’t do too well in the cold.

Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this.

I was never a Kiss fan at all. This was the only Kiss song I ever could even sort of tolerate.

RIP Ace Frehley.

“Rock and Roll All Nite”, from their album Dressed to Kill, 1975. Kiss. Enjoy, gang.