Best thing about the weekend? I found out that Gurugrrl actually likes me for me, no matter what I may be.

Worst thing about the weekend? The way I had to find it out.

While sitting with IRC in the background, with my favorite editor open, scribbling lines of php into it frantically and fixing various broken things:

restlessmind [[email protected]] has joined #restlessmind ChanServ sets mode: +rtn ChanServ changes topic to "My brain hurts. (restlessmind)" ChanServ: #restlessmind is operated by ChanServ restlessmind changes topic to "I'm a smart cookie (with cookies)" You are now known as restlesslurker Eleanor [[email protected]] has joined #restlessmind <Eleanor> will u talk to me? <Eleanor> mike <restlesslurker> About what? <Eleanor> what did i do? You are now known as restlessmind <restlessmind> What do you mean? <Eleanor> i come back from michigan and all of a sudden ur not talking to me <restlessmind> That's funny, I thought you said if I was this way then fuck me <Eleanor> alot of stuff happened <Eleanor> last night <Eleanor> im sorry <restlessmind> Oh, well, seeya <Eleanor> i saw what u wrote about me You are now known as restlesslurker <Eleanor> and i was mad <Eleanor> well, whatever i guess, ur still my friend, wether or not u think i am, i just dont understand what i did <Eleanor> maybe one day i will understand Eleanor [[email protected]] has left #restlessmind

Whatever.

I guess I'm being a Heartless Bastard�, and whatever transpires, I'm the heavy. But you know, I just can't say that I can go there right now.

So I put on a jacket and head out into the pre-dawn air to drag the garbage can to the road. As I am headed up the driveway, I start to approach my grandparents' house, and I get closer to their house, I realize there is something orange in the driveway. What's more remarkable is that I can see it, since that's the only detail on the whole driveway I can make out.

When I get up to the point of origin, I realize that it's a piece of wood half burned down, that still has very hot coals in it.

Yes, laying in the driveway.

I look around for signs of debris from lightning, because surely my grandparents aren't goofy enough to take a burning log out of the fireplace and dump it in a gravel driveway with lots of dry leaves and grass and wind to fuel these coals.

Apparently they are.

I just left it there.

I know there's a joke that people shrink as they get older. Do their brains shrivel up, too?

restlessmind