Day 4. While I was composing an email to Kim for her birthday (belated), I had an acceptance breakthrough. D.- was the first partner of any consequence who wasn't manipulative, nor a bratty crypto-sub, nor a miserable nag, nor to the best of my knowledge a cheater. Without getting too gushy, she remains a rare sort of person who inspires and magnifies my faith, and if I can't be her man I guess I have to settle for being her friend.

So I IM'ed her, and simultaneously she was reiterating that she hoped to remain friends, and me iterating some condensed-version of the above, so the upshot is I've kept a cherished friend. That's what I have to give thanks for this season.

Woke late a bit dry after celebrating with the Wild Turkey 101, but coffee, vitamins and a little extra water fixed me up enough to hunt down breakfast. Egg + cheese, mainly because I needed to break a 20 for rent. Somehow my last chili batch lasted 12 days in the fridge without spoiling; toward the end I was very leery, but it kept passing the sniff test, the taste quiz, and the mouthfeel protocol, so I finished the last of it for lunch today. In the future we will store half and freeze half. I think I had a muffin somewhere in there too.

Finished Fifty Shades of Ghey and posted my reaction on Goodreads. I'll try not to regurgitate that in toto here. It wasn't as wretched as some amateur reviewers like to snark; its sheer unabashed plagiarism was entertaining in a pomo sort of way, and there was actually a fair amount of amusing dialogue. But it was a far cry from good, nothing about it excelled or informed, so we won't be reading books 2-3.

Reading light is rather lacking here and my eyes are not what they were 20 or even 10 years ago.