Now Janis, I’ll draw your attention to the fact that Gene is awake (barely, it seems), dressed, and has gift in hand. So he’s prepared for your demands!
A few months ago, I was trying to play piano for our church’s Stations of the Cross service, and we had a small roof leak near the piano. It was dripping into the bucket next to me, and the stupid drip-drip was the wrong tempo! I had the devil’s own time ignoring it and doing my job.
When we moved into our house, we had the living room painted the same shade as we’d seen in a model house. I was very careful to match the color. The first time I walked into the (empty) painted room, I was horrified… it was too dark and looked ghastly. I thought I’d made a horrible mistake. But once we got the furniture moved in, the color magically transformed to what I was expecting. Funny how that works.
I’m only vaguely aware that there’s some yearly sporting event of some kind that happens in late January / early Feb, that seems to inspire a lot of over-the-top commercials. I once scheduled a choir sectional practice during a playoff game. All the men commented, “He’s obviously not a football fan!”
Umm, Ludwig, before you get too lippy, panel 2 and especially panel 3 both suggest that you ain’t exactly been missing many meals, ya know what I’m sayin’?
On the (rare) occasion when I can’t sleep, I’ll pick up a book. I don’t last two paragraphs.