2 Days and Tomorrow

Here was yesterday in Mungo's world: Woke up at 4:30 p.m. Chatted with sister Caitlin and her boyfriend, Dan. They were doing important things for college. I ate cereal and fruit salad left over from Charlotte Ruth Circle. I took my sweet time showering and getting ready to leave the house. I rode my bike to the public library to do puzzles with the old and infirm...and to blog my eyes out. But, the library closes at 5:30 on Friday, no the normal 8:00. I looked up at the bank marquee and it said, 5:27. "Oops. I forgot it was Friday." -- That was the first time I had ever spoken those words. So I rode my bike to the Mitchell County Press-News where Popalopagus was still working. Mary Loden, a coworker, let me in the locked building and I sat waiting for Pops to be finished creating the A section of next week's paper. He walked home, I rode my bike beside him. By 6:15 p.m. Caitlin and Dan were working at Hardees and I had just gotten the lawn mower started and had half a lap done in the back yard. My dad came out to the back yard and gave me the "cut it" hand gesture. I cut it. He said, "You and I need to ride out to Mason City, you're mother is in the Emergency room." So, we went. After an IV and some time resting she was mostly recovered from an ordeal with her heart. I have inherited my mother's faulty heart so what happened to her scared me double time. For me, and for her. We all came home and I was feeling restless. Chris Klatt called me from Logan, Utah. He and I made plans for a visit to Logan on the weekend of the 25th if that works out. I left Osage and headed west down highway 9, turned south down a mysterious path and drove many miles to the one-lane bridge that I shared with Jill in 1997 and 1998. If you remember, Jill is my friend who died, the one I am writing a book about. I sat there in the dust and gravel of the bridge staring at a clear sky remembering her. I sat there with a thermos of hot coffee for three hours. Then I left, drove home. Didn't fall asleep until 7 a.m.

Today. Slept for 1.5 hours. Woke up at 8:30 a.m. Cleaned and sorted my things until 10:30 a.m. I drove to Mason City and had my oil changed and my rotars replaced. They had been machined and turned back in April, but that 12,000 miles ago. Came home, finished mowing the lawn, washed my car. The rest of the night includes doing laundry, and cleaning and sorting my things some more. It seems like a fruitless task.

Tomorrow moring at 7:30 I will leave Osage. I will spend the morning driving to Dubuque. Once there, Sara Jean and I will visit. Tomorrow night she has a rock and roll show. I am looking forward to seeing London Forces for the first time.

I'm not going to spell check a damn thing.

Long hair, ass bare,
Mungo

Song of the day: Unwritten Law - "Shallow (accoustic)"