Chapter 5

I pulled out onto the road and headed home. The weather was getting worse and the forecast on the radio was for 1-3 inches of snow every day for the next few days. The wind had picked up as well and the gusts forced me to concentrate on my driving.

I made it home without incident. I grabbed my camera and the stuff from the video store, picked up the evening paper from the front porch, and went inside.

The house was dark and I went through to the back turning on lights as I went. I put the stuff I was carrying on the desk and went back in the kitchen.

I wasn't really very hungry after the rice pudding, so I decided to eat healthy for once. I dumped pre-bagged salad into a big bowl and added a sliced boiled egg and some grated cheese and chopped onions. A large dollop of blue cheese dressing topped off the impromptu chef's salad.

I poured a tumbler full of iced tea and carried it and the salad to the table where I ate and read the paper. The world (as usual) was going to Hell in a handbasket, at least if you believed the Capitol City Gazette. I wasn't too concerned- I'd been reading the same paper since I was a kid and the world had been headed the same way the entire time. I figured I still had a few years of folly and high living left.