I am leaving to go to Charleston now for my mom’s birthday and for my first show as a member of The Ectomorphs (www.theectomorphs.com). Come out to Cumberlands if you are in the area and check it out, and tell my mom happy birthday…she will be there. I won’t be back until tomorrow night, so the February page will still be that lame message that is currently up. Go Panthers!

Sorry for the month confusion, but I wanted to get the February updates up before I left for the weekend. I hope you will enjoy the new pics and new entries throughout February. I will be back with a final January update later today, while I am at work, or when I get home. I should be having a short day tomorrow at work, so I will probably update when I get home. Goodnight.

I am at work waiting to hear back about a site I am working on. I hate these periods of sitting here feeling like I am doing something wrong because I am waiting. Oh well. I guess there are plenty of people that don‚t feel bad about spending their time in an inefficient way.

Last night was very nice. I had dinner and a drink with a sincerely beautiful and charming friend of mine. It was a very refreshing evening, and I hope we get to do it again sometime. After I took her home, I went back to my place, which was still without electricity, so I gave my cats some love and warmth and went over to Marlowe’s place and played some Yahtzee with her and Ben and some other friends. I am so thankful that she and her roommate Lauren have let me stay at their place while my house is freezing. Hopefully we will have power back by tonight.

In sadder news, Herman, my beta fish didn’t make it through the cold. Herman was given to my ex-fiance by her mother back in 2000. He lived a very long time so I guess it was just his time to go to fishy heaven. We lost our power in the middle of the night and the next morning he was dead. Herman will be missed. There is a picture or two of him at www.jebbgraff.com/pets.

My cats however, are in much better shape as they are covered with fat and fur. They must have known this would happen. They fattened up like crazy this year. I went to check on them this morning and they were all cuddled up in bed with each other and purring. They were built for this, though I do hope they get to warm up next to the furnace soon. Well, that’ll do it for now.

In the words of Mr. Gallagher and commonly Mr. Suggs… “She is electric, can I be electric too?”

UPDATE!!! Wow, second post in the same day and there will probably be a third. Anyway, it goes like this.

And George said, “Let there be light.” Three days later, there was light.

Thanks power crews. It’ll be a warm bed tonight, and happy cats, and computers, and spoiled food…wait. The food thing sucks, but we have power!!!

Today Columbia shed its clothes to don its true form. It showed as it always does in late January that it’s cold and empty. Broken limbs, dreams halted… Earth from far paradises was trucked in to provide a fragile pavement for those whom had to work, and for those whom couldn’t bear the solitude the cold walls and newly thickened windows provided. Children on the other hand, though disappointed by the ice not being snow, received the attention they’ve been longing for from their busy parents now homebound due to this natural halt in commerce. There are too few days like these here.