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So I have about three good paragraphs written in the Visions client for a morning entry, and I need to correct a mistake and, instead of hitting the "back" key, I hit "esc" and the client minimizes itself. So I right click the pencil icon to open the box from which the client takes my instructions, and as I go to click on "open," the mouse slips just a bit and instead I click on "exit," which is right next to "open" for some reason. Gone! Bad mouse meets bad software design meets overtired brain. Anyway, I don't feel like trying to reconstruct the entry. I'll just say that, up until that point, the night was not bad.

I'm going to sulk for a while, then go to sleep. Damned computers.

October

The cat mopes today. She is out of sorts, and dissatisfied with her dinner. The house has been vacuumed. Perhaps she misses the familiar dust.

It is exactly the same temperature indoors and out, but there is no hint of breeze, so the fresh outdoor air does not displace the stuffy indoor air despite the wide open windows.

Evening sunlight bathes a Japanese maple down the block, passing through its autumn red leaves. The glow is like a fire frozen in time.

The day is drenched in splendid October melancholy. Right on time.