today kenneth came by with a couple of guys to take the spinet. the house is pretty much in boxes, we leave a week from tomorrow, a giant substreet steampipe just cast chucks of concrete all over Manhattan while a geizer of steam shot up through the street a couple of blocks from where Chris will be working and vice president dick cheney will be president for about three hours tomorrow during President Bush's colonoscopy. I took some excedrin. No piano. I wonder if he'll try to officially start with Iran while bush is under anesthesia. I guess that's a debatable time period.

