Coffee, Cards, and a Goatee.

Home for the weekend, and Mom and I took my grandmother to Orchard Beach today. Its good for her to get out, get some sun, do some people watching. Plus she ran into one of her old students, who's now 30 and owns a shop on City Island. I could get into why I feel so terrible for her, about her lonliness and quickly developing senility, but I feel thats a bit too dark for just the second post. Too much, too soon. Once we get to know each other a little better, then we'll talk about the more depressing side of things.

On the plus side, I got to perform some katas on the beach, which was pretty cool in a Karate Kid kind of way. Very relaxing. Probably very confusing for the onlookers though.

Now, in much more important news, there's a Carlin special on tonight. A new one. Carlin is somewhat of a prophet to me. Lately he's been just slightly off his game (lots of anger, not as much specificity or direction), but he's still phenomenal. I'll probably post something after with some favorite quotes and just a general review. But to any and all who see this before then (which will probably be no one), 10 pm (EST), HBO. You'll thank me later.