"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." -Robert E. Lee

Happy belated New Year, to anyone who chooses to read this.

Rewatched Gettysburg, took Mom out for lunch, tried to go shopping and failed miserably since everything is closed. Cleaned a lot. Did a lot of silver polishing. All in all, a slow day. I think the highlight was doing the crossword in the back of an old New York mag while watching Pirates of the Caribbean and Mary Poppins.

I need to make more pasta so I can dry it and sell it to out-of-towners for massive amounts of money because it's "homespun" or some shit. I love tourists; they're so damn gullible, especially middle-aged New Yorkers. They're so dumb I could sell them a stick for $50 just by saying it has some fucked-up Native American religious value. And the wannabe hippie wicclets that show up to "commune with nature" are just as bad. Play some mystic woo-woo at them and have a few crystals lying around and you're their goddamn messiah. Fucking hell, people need to step back and look at how ridiculous they look to locals. I don't buy anything for any more than I would pay at home, thank you very much. Has the world lost its mind?

Oy vey. I need a drink, methinks.

Happy new year, once again.