since i've been gone

i predict that the following words will appear in the the cyberspace in the next few days... just to keep you informed cuz i know you really want to know, the following synopses of the day in the life as i know it are actually the entries from (e)thereal since i've been gone from the orlando area... not quite the nashville chronicles, cuz they really aren't influenced by nashville much except for the fact that i am physically in a suburb (franklin), but place may have more influence than we give credit, so anyway, this is what you might have read had you been reading (e)thereal the past few days, though by datestamp magic, it shall appear as the next few days... eerie, isn't it?...

so here's what you didn't know...

sitting at the airport waiting for a flight, so I write a few words to you cuz, of course, you are checking in a few times a day like me cuz, well, you care that much and, after all, the plane could crash and this could be my very last entry (almost)… unfortunately, I still am not connected as constantly as we’d like as this work laptop seems to have a problem connecting to wireless (or there is none at the airport), so I must apologize for grating on your impatience, but at least the entries will be up later (one way or another)… I am gonna sleep well tonight cuz I haven’t slept more than a few hours any night this week… in fact, I think I’ll nap now and let the battery rest too…
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ok, so we compromise… this work laptop will not work for the internet because it is not set up for wireless and the att card is not compatible with it, so as usual, the IT restrictions get in the way of doing my job most effectively… so I will head down to the business center and upload from there later or when there’s time… luckily, I did bring my passwords…

I did not buy the laptop because the store did not have the model I probably would have bought had they had the model… the 16gb eee machine for $399… but then, I almost bought one of the other regular laptops for around $800… and then, I considered the mac book pro, though for lightweight, the air was really cool…

but then, time ran out and I headed for the airport with the work laptop figuring I would use it this trip, but I should have known the fact that I do not have a profile or permissions to do much on it would get in the way… security is important, but so is getting the job done…

the past week of minimal sleep is catching up with me, so maybe my mind will be clearer in the morning and solutions will be found, but for now, I shall do what I came here to do, listen to people tell me how to do my job (you know, the one I’ve been doing for almost three years) when my corporate contact (the vp for my area) usually calls me for assistance)…
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maybe a little like every day I get a little bit better in every way or whatever the precise line from the pink panther series was, but with an even much more serious realerness beneath the humor than ever imagined before because, after all, I am so genuinely amazingly unique, I mean, like you, ya know?…

if you are not laughing, then you simply do not get the joke and if you are not laughing at least forty percent of the time reading me, well, then you just don’t get the jokes anywhere from fifty to ninety-five percent of the time you are reading, more or less, and that means, according to the laws of probability on this planet, that you just don’t get jokes at all thirty to fifty percent of the time and that, I’m afraid, means you lead about one fifth of the life you could live… I recommend you apply for a sense of humor transplant at the university of wallamalooo…
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a fine day at the corporate schoolroom where they went over the basics of performance improvement… I listen with one ear and got some work done on the laptop, though not enough to let me goof off tomorrow… still, I am not becoming a workaholic, which is a good sign… after school, we went out to dinner at the red pony, an upscale bistro-type place in downtown franklin (I wonder what the lead singer of paramore would say about the place)… delicious shrimp and grits with a side of sauteed spinach… yeah, you read right, shrimp and grits… we all (five of us) shared sushi, boneless ribs, and guacamole with chips for starters and a chocolate demise dessert…

you shoulda been there…
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morning comes early when on the road… used the hotel razor this morning as I forgot to buy on when I went shopping for shirts when I got here and wow, I was reminded of the foibles of a cheap single blade razor… luckily I’m not an excessive bleeder most of the time…

make your day wonderful :)
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another long day (mostly cuz I am bored) continues at work-school going over stuff I’ve done over and over on much more advanced levels, but hey, there’s a price to pay for everything and the price for taking lots of time away from the corporate world and then returning is to sit through basic training all over again… it’s helpful to meet others in my position at other facilities I suppose even if I’ll be the one getting most of the questions… I miss being the kid in a group sometimes…

and how about you peoples out there in the internet world, I mean, I know you are out there even if you do not come around find me keeping in touch daily here on any regular basis… I still want to know what’s going on in your world so if this happens to be the moment you stopped by this page, what’s up and how ya doin? :)
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at the moment I could nod off in a moment, but I am waiting a call for dinner plans and so I do not want to actually sleep and yet, maybe a ten minute power nap would actually feel as good as it is telling me it would feel (naps can lie, you know, and it could be a deep sleep in nap’s clothing too cuz deep sleeps do that, they lure you in with the promise of five minutes of bliss and the next thing you know you are waking up late and apologizing to friends or work or somebody who was expecting you hours before… just an fyi, iyfm)…

iyfm (if you feel me)
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what?… you wanna know how I’m doing… and not just cuz I keep asking about you, but cuz you care about me and want to know… outstanding… so let’s see about me…

me, ironically, is (me is?… well, I am, anyway)… kind of an oddly familiar experience continuing to be too busy to just give myself the me time I so enjoy… though in most circumstances on a trip away from home I would find myself rambling on and rhyming and all sorts of inspired cuz new environments stimulate me, I have not had much time due to the social aspects of a business trip and even when I finally did get in last night, I found myself watching tv and really getting into a couple of shows bones and another (could have been any of a hundred decent shows) and really enjoying the escape into audio-visual fiction more than I have in many years, which is most likely due the fact that I have not watched a tv drama in about five months… the mental escape was a cool experience…

I was also tired (and am even more tired now) and just laying there falling into a story felt good… so while I don’t feel like hooking up a tv at home just yet, I do feel better about the whole tv experience now that I’ve been away from it for a while… I still see tvs at sports bars and other people’s houses, but the solitary intimacy (or even shared intimacy) of sitting or laying still and being absorbed through eyes and ears and the tube into a story has been absent (and as you might expect I now long for the sharing of the av experience that was once so much a wonderful part of relationships with friends and lovers… ah, yes, I remember it well {with a whistful smile and a inner chuckle and a starry-eyed sigh and all} so many things can be improved with the right person sharing :)