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I’m halfway done with cleaning the place. I hate it when I have to do the big production clean ups but I do it to myself.

I did get out earlier today but I never made it to the lovely Ralph’s. I went to Pokez, which is a very good but cheap Mexican restaurant close to the Central Library and the Post Office. The food is always good. Most of the people who hang out there are arty-sloppy in the way they dress and I wonder how many of them are trust fund kids. But it has a nice atmosphere and the offbeat way the restaurant is decorated makes it fit int with the downtown environment. I like the skateboard with Che Guevarra painted on it. I like downtown a lot. My neighborhood is fabulous but I like it because I can walk anywhere. I don’t have to drive. If I don’t feel like walking, there is is the trolley.

After walking around, I slowly did the cleaning. I got to listen to a lot of music in the process. I haven’t had the opportunity to listen to my CD’s lately so it’s nice. For the past couple of months, Modest Mouse’s “Good News…” was the CD that wouldn’t leave my player but it was getting old so I listened to some old favorites–Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Duran Duran, and Nina Simone.

More cleaning to be done tomorrow.

With my mom’s computer problem, a friend of mine gave me a solution. He told me to go to the Micros$oft website and download something to debug the computer since it may be a virus downloaded from an affected website. I now have to go to another computer and download the de-bugger. I don’t have a PC (Mac user) so maybe I’ll download it and burn it on a CD when I’m at SDSU on Monday. Thanks Andrew!

I’ve decided to get a move on on cleaning up the place. I’m taking a break, of course. I just threw away some papers and filed some others. There’s still a lot of clutter and I can’t believe I let things get to this.

I know it would be easier to “maintenance” cleaning every other day but I just can’t get my mind around it somehow. I know I don’t want the Queer Eye guys to come in here because they would be really unforgiving. I remember the “Queer Eye for the Gay Guy” episode and I’m sure it would be something similar. But at least a visit to a hairdresser and a shopping trip would come out of it. But is it worth the abuse?

Even though there’s no hair appointment or shopping trip involved today, I need to get back to work. I may take a walk to Ralph’s behind Horton Plaza to deal with the cabin fever but this has to get done. No agreeing to spontaneous meetings with friends or saying yes to visit my niece and nephew if they decide to call out of the blue.

Signing out for now.

I put off cleaning up the place today. I got off to a late start (10am. I’ve been staying up until 3 or 4am this week) and I spent the morning online.

My niece called me at 2:30pm so I showered & dressed quickly to catch the 3:00 trolley to go to Mission Valley. It was late and I missed my connection to the 927 by the Ikea Shopping Center. I wound up catching the 13 and I walked up the hill from the Qualcomm Stadium.

By the time I arrived at my mother’s house, my niece and nephew started swimming without me. I joined them and played a couple opf games with them. My niece thinks her brother always cheats on the games.

I hung out until 7:20 and caught the 927 bus to Mission Valley, jumped on the trolley, and went to the YMCA to excercize. On the way home, I saw a weird guy on the trolley. He had a drag along suitcase, a shopping bag, and a golf club. His clothes were covered in paint and he was talking to a Snoopy doll with Snoopy’s nose in his ear. He kept blaming Snoopy for the paint on his hands.