irony and such

so here I am blogging daily here and almost daily in other places and more like weekly in still other places and only occasionally in places that aren't counted in the other places and on one of the rare days I don't show up... of course it didn't matter because the webbots at blogger beta made sure my sudden single day disappearance was not registered on the blog-richter scale because many wonderful people were blocked (including the Wzzzrd of Zandy Eggo, who is missed)... such phenomenon do nothing to dissuade my obnoxiously enormous ego from trying to convince me (and anyone who'll listen) that the universe revolves around me...

of course that part of me I might call my rational mind laughs (and laughs well) at the follies of ego, but I write about it because it amuses me (and I like amusing myself) to record and recall just how ridiculously self-centered and self-important a human mind can get when ego is allowed to run wild and free (shhh, don't tell it otherwise)...

meanwhile, the world goes on outside of my head too...

and that's what I come here to write about, except when I am not babbling regularly, like lately, and I open what is supposed to be a mostly brief and to the point synopsis of life offline in real time... and if you care, then thank you, cuz it feels good to feel like I and the little details that make up life as I know it on a day to day basis are cared about beyond the few people who interact with me offline...

today was another long work day because of an ongoing project I wrote a bit about in a previous entry... I started out a bit early, but instead of getting to work early, I found my car seriously dead... yes, seriously dead... not merely nearly dead, but seriously... dead... not even a click at the turn of a key... dead silence...

luckily, I live in an apartment community that has one of those car starters and one of the maintenance guys bring it out to my car and it starts right up... a quick trip to the Auto Zone on the way to work to find the battery charger there out of order loses them a battery sale and brings me to the Advanced Discount Auto Parts, still on the way to work, where about an hour later I have a new $75 battery and I'm off to work... living about five miles from work and having several auto parts places between here and there (and I didn't mention the Wal-Mart also right in line on the way) is as convenient as having a maintenance guy with a car starter... I saw them for $30 and they are definitely a worthwhile convenience... and for $10 more they come with an air compressor... cool and useful toy...

so I finally get to work almost an hour late, but just in time to give my order for lunch to my office-mate who is taking orders for a lunch meeting (treated by the Director of Marketing) and it turns out he called the meeting to discuss the new information organizing I am doing and new forms I've been creating, to get feedback from the rest of his department and approve them... surprising appreciation from the top dogs and approval from my peers like that is uber cool (yes uber... seldom used in my babbling, but a good adjective)...

then it was back to working on the project (that's just two entries back if you'd rather scroll than open a new window)... I will likely explain more about the project another time, but for now, let's just say the government man is learning to respond and respect my questions... you can read about it behind the candoor where I've been known to babble on a bit...

and then I came home and sat here babbling and glanced up at the Science Channel which had a show about ancient history (based on geology and archeology) when a great extinction happened before the dinosaurs, something called the Permian extinction... and then a show about the hypothetical life of a sperm whale... I love the Science channel sometimes...

oh, and I have squishy elbow... no relation to squishy mishy, one of my secret lovers over at myspace (it's an orgy over there, ya know)... it's the diagnosis by my boss, the associate administrator of the hospital who also happens to be an ARNP in her spare time... brilliant girl, she is... and not just cuz she has so much faith in me either (nyuk)... a week or so ago I banged my elbow and it's been kind of sore, but that's what happens to elbows when they are banged, ya know?... anyway, today I sat my elbow down on the desk, once again forgetting the ouch that would occur a moment after the skin touched the desk, and it felt like there was a cushion or bubble under my elbow... a quick check revealed a squishy liquid bubble under the skin... fluid on the elbow, like professional athletes get, I exclaimed... my effervescent boss looked up at my elbow and declared, you have squishy elbow... don't you just love modern medicine?...

and on that note, that's today in real time... not as brief as I'd have liked, but heck, a babbler must babble and when there's no time for btc, it's bound to come out wherever I write... hope you don't mind...

and I hope your day was fun too J