Austin, TEXAS, January 29, 2006 — Yeah...I've been threatening to quit posting something every day. And maybe I will one day.

I've been telling FFP that I was going to take all the magnets and photos and menus and magnetic poetry off the frig and clean it. Been threatening for weeks.

Finally I did it. I removed every single thing from the front and sides of the refrigerator. Christmas 2004 someone said they thought it looked like a Lance Letscher collage and that gave me pause (I'm a huge fan) but I decided that it was going to have to be like

a work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude...ephemeral.

This took a lot longer than I thought. But the outside of the frig is now quite clean with just a few things stuck on it...bottle openers, a memo thing and a calender from some real estate person, the menu and seating chart for the dinner party. It took so long, though, that it turned other things I might do into empty threats!

I really intended to give up crime shows and other one hour dramas like Grey's Anatomy so that I could do other things. But I found myself peering over the newspaper at just such shows tonight.

My life seems full of empty threats. But sometimes I rise to the occasion. Now what to do with a couple of pounds of frig debris?