catching up x 4

and so four days zipped by this time and it's time to start catching up (as if this was the first of the four entries uploaded tonight just cuz it's the first I upload cuz it's the last I wrote so it falls into place in linear reading down the page)... this always makes for orphan entries ("little orphan entries", copyright 2007), which is what I am calling my next blog when I start it, which might be when I get the new computer, which will be sooner than never... little orphan entries are the entries that get no comments, no feedback, no notice, ya know?... cuz leaving a comment is kind of like adopting an entry, isn't it?...

anyway, not to belabor yet another unintended guilt trip (I really don't mean to, but I was brought up in a Judeo-Christian world by Judeo-Christian people and the foundation {or at least the residual secular everyday life stuff born of religions} of most everything is guilt tripping, after all, so it's kind of ingrained in my psyche even though I am not always completely human (but I suppose I am getting better at it, which is seeming more obnoxious with each step... or repulsive), let's get to the question burning everybody's lips (exaggeration is the second strongest influence, ya know) , where have I been?...

way back on today, or Thursday, as I was thoroughly enjoying putting my head into a Jar, I juggled some more work at work and trained the temporary data person some more and after getting home, I believe I zoned into something on TV while falling to sleep in the big green chair while waiting for Precious to call for her ride home (I'm almost ready to buy her a car myself so she might show some signs of independence cuz by now all her peers are off to college and not living home while she's still a couple or few years behind, just starting on her first job and still without a driver's license as she approaches her 19th birthday... of course if I could afford to buy her a car I'd have a new desktop and a new laptop)...

the phone rang to wake me and Precious tells me she has a ride, so i could have either gone to bed, gone out somewhere, or otherwise occupied my time with something other than nodding off while sitting and waiting for her call, but that's the way it is with any teenager who firmly believes the whole world revolves around her... I knew it didn't revolve around me before I was out of diapers, but then, I'm not very normal, or even always human, after all... and then I think I browsed the web and fell asleep and along came Friday...

in spite of intending to get out of work early at least one day this week, the week ended with me staying late every night cuz there's just no way to get caught up on two jobs while training someone to do one of them in a normal 40 hour work week...

once home, it was an ordinary Friday night, vegetating in front of the TV with the Sci-Fi channel and ordering from Paradiso (so I had food for a few days without having to clean up the kitchen so I could cook)... and Saturday was college football cuz Rasputin is a serious college football fan (Ohio State) and I get into the game day routine pretty easily... I seem to have lost all interest in fantasy sports these days as I've abandoned all the leagues I signed up for (but still may finish second in one of the baseball leagues, which is quite amazing as I've ignored the team all year)... I spent some time wandering myspace and sending out some more add requests, rather randomly this time... Raspy and I went to eat at the local Chinese buffet Saturday evening and then it was back to college football as I nodded off in the big green chair...

Sunday was another day of vegetation at home with the NFL on TV (the televised games are getting so very boring), eating the leftover Italian food, heading out for ice cream, and tapping away at the keyboard to bring you these four entries that you long anticipated, so tenderly read, and thoroughly enjoyed...

now all I need to know is what I can take with me on my business trip in October, like, do I have to buy new toiletries and shaving stuff there or do I have to wait in line to check in an overnight bag and wait for the airline to unload it (or lose it) at the destination extending the time in the airport another hour or few?... there must be some website where I can find this information so I can be prepared and not be looking for an all night store in Oklahoma City so I can spend unnecessary money so I don't smell or look disheveled...

well, that's not all I need to know, but that's one thing... I don't think I won the lottery again yesterday... not that I check, but I figure I'll hear about it on the news and if some idiot in Orlando won and did not show up to collect his winnings I'll check if it's me...

and what's this on 60 Minutes tonight about stores selling marijuana legally?... probably medical marijuana or something... while I have no interest in drinking anymore and very minimal interest in tripping or any other chemical mind games, I might share a social pipe now and then if the old weed was legalized... I should visit Sandy Eggo and explore meditative alternatives with the west coast mindset, aye?...

anyway, thanks for all the attention while I was away, you are appreciated... even when you are not around... I'll upload these entries now and let you get on with your mental orgasms...