Pokemon, day 2

Mark is beginning to learn how to use the pokewalker connection on his game, but he is enjoying himself on the game, 2 badges behind me. I remember a fair bit of the game, but a lot seems different. I played through it twice before, actually, the original Silver, as well as Crystal. It feels almost new to me now.

I decided that I can use the pokewalker to reflect my mood, most of today I had a Koffing on it, with the skull and bones easily visible. It can be a pleasant diversion.

The time change is really messing with me, though the overcast rainy skies are partly to blame as well. I always feel physically sick for a few days after the time change, as I adjust. Changing time zones is easy, the the internal solar clock is almost painful.

I can't imagine that any alien worlds would have such a barbaric thing as daylight savings time. Maybe it was a good idea at the time, but I think that its time has come and gone.

The gash in my finger, right on the inside of the joint, is a bit better today, when I looked this afternoon it was virtually still an open wound though. It is a bit worse than I thought yesterday, but the bandage still holds, and for the most part I still have use of both hands. My internal clock is fried, but my hands work.

Time Warner sent a letter today, it demanded that I send them $300 or they would turn off my service. The letter was dated over a week after I returned all their equipment. The talking voice on the other side of the help line tried to claim it was really $195, eerily the same amount they say I owe from Cincinnati. The help person, named Nick, which was easy to remember for some reason, did mention an amount of about $126, but refused to repeat it. That is the likely correct amount, since he tried to claim our $75 deposit didn't really exist. I think I ought to just send the whole damn thing over to the state attorney general, I've done such things before, with good results.