Figured it’s going to take me another couple weeks to get used to writing 2009 instead of 2008 so I thought I’d get a start on it now.  2009.  2009.  2009. 

It’s bright and sun-shiny here in Baltimore.  Also cold.  20 degrees at BWI and 23 in my back yard according to my does-it-all digital furnace/ac system controller/thermostat.  Not nearly as windy as yesterday though.  Yesterday morning I looked out the front window and my bird feeders were being blown horizontal and the damn birds were still hanging on.  Eating.  They get hungry when the temperatures drop.

I’m not hung over because I didn’t drink much at all last night and I went to bed early.  My egg nog didn’t turn out very well, and truth to tell I was getting a little tired of drinking egg nog anyway.  I spent the last of 2008 with a tall glass of my ice tea, still working on catching up with my filing.  The major big part of the filing task is going through all the files here and sorting out what I can move into storage, and what I can just toss.  I thought I was done with that last Tuesday but then I came across a big cardboard box of papers from way, Way back around the time of the move from the Cockeysville apartment to Casa del Garrett.  It’s full of stuff I never got around to filing because I was in the middle of moving, and then settling into my new house.  That box has just sat here for years and I’m going through it now.  There isn’t a lot in it I need to keep…obviously since I haven’t needed to get into it to find anything in over 7 years…but I can’t just toss it all out without going though it first.  I hope to be done with it today sometime.

But…they’re calling for rain and snow later, so I’m going to grab a camera and go for a drive while the sun is out.  Maybe down to my old hometown Rockville and wander around a bit.