Theater of the Soul

That mutant flu seems to have tortured us to it’s satisfaction. Monkeyboy returned to school yesterday (no doubt to pick up the next virus du jour) and BooBoo and I feel almost human again.

I have so much work to catch up on it’s not even funny. We have had a rash of apartment building fires in the area lately and our local fire inspector is really cracking down on us. Not that this is a BAD thing, because it’s not. It’s just a bad time of year for us to have to get all of this crap done. Things are always tight during the heating season for this building and winter is far from over.

Despite that fact, it’s also time to start planning on spring cleaning. The weather was beautiful over the weekend, but I was too damn sick to do anything. I have a very nice enclosed sunporch in my apartment that I want to get cleaned off. I just moved into this particular apartment last June (after waiting 4 years for it to come open) and that sunporch is my sanctuary. Unfortunately, in the winter time, it’s just too damn convenient and I ended up tossing all kinds of crap out there to just get it out of my way. Now I get to sift through boxes of Christmas decorations, cans of paint and building supplies. The sunporch isn’t totally weatherproof so it can’t be used in the wintertime, but my mission this year is to find out how much it will take to make it something I can use year-round.

I’ve also got to clean out my computer closet. One of my tenants gave me a perfectly good 1 year old computer system last week because he couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it and just went out and bought a new laptop. I took a look at it and it was infested with spyware and viruses. I reformatted the drive and it’s fine. I try to keep two extra systems around just in case one of ours dies, but this is getting ridiculous. The kids each have a system, I have two at my desk, one in my room, a media center for the livingroom and a laptop. That’s more than enough I think.

Time to get started!