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i burned my belly button today, cooking bacon shirtless…less than 24 hours after someone anecdotally told me about something similar happening to them! weird.

yesterday at work, i asked a coworker if she would cut my hair again. she did before and it looked great, and giving her a couple beers is cheaper than going to a salon. she asked if i would let her dye my hair if she bought the dye. i figured why not. now my hair is black and so is the skin under my sideburns, and i smell like chemicals. i kind of regret it, oh well

the same girl bought an electric fly swatter and brought it to work. it looks like a small tennis raquet, except it’s got 3 layers of metal mesh on it. i touched it while it was on, thinking it wouldn’t affect big things like Human Fingers, but instead there was a huge blue spark and my hand went numb. felt exactly like when i was 12 and accidentally plugged something in while touching the prongs on the plug – i can’t believe an 8 dollar fly swatter can put out that much voltage! it totally works though, making a huge pop when you hit a mosquito with it.

another little barbeque last night – pretty nice. last time someone had suggested recording a cover of the tv edit of “little mouse” from look around you, so i made a pretty sweet backing track. it didn’t turn out well, the musical people wanted to play their instruments (piano, guitars) and the non-musical folks didn’t know the song so they couldn’t sing it and just played tambourine and shaker. at least i can sing along to little mouse by myself whenever i want now.

a game of kings happened last night, whatever, standard deal. nobody remembered an entire ruleset so we had to write down an amalgamation, and 7 was “slap”, in which you slap the face of the person to your right and so on until one person refuses to be slapped, and they have to drink. the funny part is nobody liked what happened on J (i forget) so J became slap too. eventually we were all just hitting each other in the face and enjoying it.

i’ve been feeling really good in a lot of ways in the last week, not sure why. maybe because i’m living in a big house and sleeping in a big bed? or just because such a dramatic “upgrade” is just psychologically pleasing? another big part of it, i think, is because i can sit on the sofa and read or nap here, where at my old place the only things i could do were sleep, cook, eat, or sit at the computer. not a very healthy lifestyle. i hope i continue to feel this healthy when i move in a couple weeks.

i’m watching deadwood right now, and this kidney stone scene is awful. they run in my family!