Well, bother. Found out Crandall (the city of Glens Falls) Library closes at 6PM on Friday! That leaves me with 3 hours to kill, and virually no where (until I can find a job to fill the gap) to go. I don't drink--and even if I did, I simply can't afford it...ditto on the combination resturant/cinema and the live theater, the two museums, the jazz club and even the billard palor. The bus station closes at 6 now, as well. In fact--most of the city of Glens Falls closes its doors at six--even the public transit buses stop running--and this is a city with a population of just under 15,000, so it's small--but not that small. Geez---! Can't even take a bus to the mall!
Anyway--the solution I came up with: The hospital. It's only for one day, and there's lots of little out of the way waiting areas--with TV's--where I can sit quietly and hang up, hopefully without security bothering me.

Yes, I'm not sure I should admit this :roll:, but yes, tonight I finally had my head examined.

For my friends, you'll be happy to know--everything normal--okay, well...normal physically :crazy:.

As an added bonus, I came out of the Primary Care section of the local emergency room into the deserted waiting area, I looked up at the tele in the corner--and Doctor Who was on! A nice surprise. I've some nice surprises today. Birthday gifts (thanks), some greetings from other friends, a party at work (Halloween, not for me) with loads of free food--so I didn't have to buy lunch (as I forgot mine, yet again today >:-(. And, an altogether not bad day.

Something weird happened, the other night, that I forgot to mention. I've speant loads of time outdoors in the woods and fields...but until the other night, around 9pm, I'd never, in 45 years, ever, ever heard crows cawwing at night before...especially not downtown around a busy city street--it seemed almost...unatural.

It spooked me a bit--it being so totally out of place and all, to hear crows yelling on a cold dark night along the semi-deserted downtown streets. Then I remembered--I'd heard the med-evac helicopter fly overhead just a short while before (I know, because you could hear it fly low over the library--and it landed very close by, the only place for that would be the helipad at the emergency room. The 'copter must've seriously unsettled the birds, to make them yell like that for minutes on end. Never encountered anything like it.