Well, *smeg*.

Worked late tonight. I needed to get an upgrade or four one on a system that was in use for most of the day, and I also wanted to avoid the worst of the transit-strike crowds, so I stayed at the office until about halfway through Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" on CNBC, then headed for the PATH.

Thought I could get a ride on a bike taxi. Couldn't. Oh, well, exercise.

Got a seat on the PATH train. Yay me.

Got home. Fed the cats. Cats were happy.

Opened the fridge to get a drink of water... and got hit with a faceful of warm air.

Everything in my fridge is spoilt. Or melted. Or both.

The fridge motor is running, but there's no cooling coming out anywhere. I'm going to call the office tomorrow and tell them this, and then stay home and clean out the fridge and find someone to hide the cats with and call the landlady and hide the cats and get this fixed, gorrammit.

At least it happened today, and not Friday or Christmas Eve or something. And at least I hadn't gone food shopping like I'd planned; I mostly just lost leftovers, and some frozen spinach and nine unused eggs.

Still, it galls and exhausts just to think about. Like I said, I'm gonna just try and get out of work tomorrow period, even if the landlady can't get someone out to fix the fridge straightaway. If nothing else I can go to Sears and buy a mini-fridge to use in the meantime, and get some soup and other canned products. And, like I said, stash the cats.

PHBLEAH, though. I mean, just... PHBLEAH.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FROM THE PAST YEAR

This year, on January third, I put up a list of ten resolutions I felt I could actually keep. I'm proud to report that through a combination of dedicated teeth-grinding and pure happenstance, I have successfully kept nine of them.

1. I will not eat dirt.
2. I will not yell at old people.
3. I will not marry for money.
4. I will not grow a beard.
5. I will not get LASIK.
6. I will not run for President of the United States.
7. I will not domesticate spiders.
8. I will not leap tall buildings in a single bound.
9. I will not cause avalanches rewrite anything's genetic code.
10. I will not put out the Sun.


... #10 I technically violated when I collaborated with a friend- the one who's done the vast majority of the work on The Prequels That Never Were- on the possibility of a sci-fi setting where a planet's star had gone out, or was on its way to going out, and the civilization burrowed into the planet and found a way to keep things operating anyway.

Now I need ten more resolutions that I can keep for the coming year. I would ordinarily put 'I will not summon that which I cannot put down' on the list, but I have gotten a little too used to things erupting in my head and not going away, so that's off the list...