Hey, I forgot to tell you guys what was on the TV Friday night, the night before I left to begin my week of seclusion in the deep woods. The Shining. No joke. For a week or two, my buddy Erik and I have been joking about how I’m going to wander off into insanity and start typing All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, over and over and over. And I still might. But to find that movie on, while I was packing, was just too weird. I wasn’t really sitting and watching, but I got to catch the scene where Shelley Duval finds the manuscript, the scene where the kid is riding the big wheel through the halls (damn that’s scary!) and the end … them driving off in the snowcat, and Jack with his frozen grin.

So far, just one paranormal experience. Last night, I was heading downstairs here to the bottom level of the house, which is the playroom, office and laundry, off the garage. Romie, the little gray cat was ahead of me on the stairs, but when I got to the bottom I couldn’t find him. Vanished. I looked everywhere. On the furniture, under the desk, behind the TV … searched the room. No cat. The laundry machines are in a nook under the stairs. I looked on both sides of them, and even — feeling crazy — in the drier, which had been closed. I thought he must have dodged me and run back up the stairs when I entered, and I sat at the desk.

Strange noises from the laundry. I looked again. No cat. I’m starting to get a little freaked. Finally, he came walking out. He’d been behind the washer and drier. WTF?

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