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this is what i do on a rainy thursday: surf the web wirelessly from my living room couch in my underwear. sure, i could've put some pants on, and the colder weather definitely warranted some more clothes, but what's the fun in that?

after having an omelette for lunch, i realized i missed my hearing appointment to contest the handful of motorcycle parking tickets i got early this summer. it was scheduled for this morning so i went down to the cambridge city hall annex anyway, hoping they'd still hear my case, 3 hours later. the weather was foggy and by the time i got there i was already spray coated in mist. there was no problem meeting the traffic officer. i confessed i missed my appointment but she said it was okay. out of the 3 overdue tickets, i managed to cancel just one and ended up paying the rest ($60).

back at home i performed another emergency water change, this time on my male guppies tank, after i saw them all congregating near the top of the aquarium, a sure sign that something was wrong with the water. i noticed the biowheel wasn't spinning because the inflow tube was clogged with dead plant debris, so that might've spiked the nitrate level (like swimming in urine). i siphoned out half the water and replace it with the reserve from the homemade cistern. afterwards things returned back to normal.

some leftover rice noodle soup for dinner, then catch the second-to-last episode of mad men. don draper's secret past is finally revealed.