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So let's see: applied for new insurance, installed light next to the bed, reconfigured headboard, put down a phone cord so I have the local phone (no long distance plan, no voice mail, pretty much for doorbell / 911 only) next to the bed, two cute shelves in the bathroom, finished the vanity countertop, replaced the fluorescent tubes in the bathroom (CIR around 75, I bet) with Soft Warm fluorescent tubes (CIR 85) -- still not happy, should try a Daylight tube (CIR 95?), but it is way cheaper than installing new lights -- organized all towels in baskets, painted and sealed the grayed out sad grout on the bathroom floor white. That last bit involved putting this product with a small painter's brush on the grout, giving it 45 mins to dry, and then scraping the product off the tiles next to the grout. This took 5 hours over two days, and every time I stood up afterwards I could not stand up straight, my back was so stiff and painful.

Still not finished, and I think I am doing all this not just to maybe stage the house, but to avoid watching TV all day or going to the beach and realizing I am jobless. No, if I keep busy I am too busy to go on monster and look for jobs, and I am on payroll till the 26th anyway. I wonder if all my former teammates -- animators, illustrators, art directors, designers -- are working again already. I bet they are.

Can't even do that loafing while watching Oprah, as jobless loafing should be done properly, because yesterday I called Time Warner and ended my cable subscription. Yes, I did. I have a week to return the Cable Box, and maybe I'll switch to rabbit ears to catch the last of the analog broadcasts, assuming they come through this building at all (I am on the south side, all transmitters are north). I am not sure how to tell the TiVo.