Something Swift this way comes…

Today I:

• Sitebanned an annoying prick from my game (squishy good feelings)
• Cleaned the kitchen (getting in good with the wife, pt. 1)
• Mowed the Lawn (getting in good with the wife, pt. 2)
• Went to Wendy’s and ate a big greaseball burger (Ahhh calories, thou art a true friend indeed!)
• Finished reading Tetrarcha by local Valdostan James Bagley (short, slightly underwritten, and mostly second person present p.o.v…not really my cup of tea, but something to read)
• Listened to some of Wil’s Audblogs. (Or Augblods as he likes to call them *heh*)
• Listened to some DIGITALLY IMPORTED streaming radio on Winamp 5
• Blogged about what all I did today.

There, wasn’t that enchanting? So now all you nosey folk know what I did with my last day off of the week. I actually got some work done, so I’m feeling pretty good about that. Now for the list of shit I’ll be doing later tonight:

• Pick the Wife up from school
• Get some Ibuprophen from her (please God she hasn’t used them all…)
• Get our pictures taken for her church directory
• Watch some boobtube possibly
• Roleplay some on MUSH
• Sleep

So that’s what my day will be comprised of. See? I lead a boring existance. But hey, who dosen’t, right? At least I’ll hopefully be able to get rid of this headache.

More Later,

S

Wow. Over 550 original pageviews and over 1700 hits. I’ve been slacking too much. Apparently I’ve sent you, my people, into the desert without thought of sustenance. Well, it’s time to come in from the desert. Sitting here listening to good music made me realize that it had been a while and you folk were probably wondering what the hell was going on. The Truth? Nothing. I’ve been working as usual, keeping to my normal schedule and running Angie around on errands, enjoying the time that I have and the peace that comes with routine. It leaves a husked out, empty, clean feeling. A feeling of renewal. I suppose that comes with the spring as well, the flowers are blooming anew, the birds have returned from their sunlined homes far to the south, and children once again laugh and play.

I’m a winter person. I hate sunshine. I hate flowers. I utterly loathe cute cuddly animals. Keep your damned rugrats to yourself. I’m a curmudgeon! I have patented my “Death Unto you and all your kind” glower, and I’m thinking about marketing it.

Except.

Except it’s spring again. Life is beginning again. It has circled back round and is blooming everywhere around us. It’s unnerving damnit.

You know what this means?

That’s right. I guess I’m finally getting senile.

No, really. I guess it means I’m finally growing up a bit. Or maybe I’m just holding onto that childhood delight of sitting, looking at the sky as the wind blows past me, bringing the scent of honeysuckle and freshly turned earth. I can sit and enjoy it. I can love the land. This is how my father feels when he’s out hunting or fishing, or gardening. He’s actually loving the land. Going back into himself. Seeking that husked out feeling, that emptiness waiting to be filled up. And I don’t blame him a bit.

I know some of you have probably gotten tired of me talking about my father. *shrugs* There’s nothing that I can do about that. After so long of not understanding, and yes – being angry at him most of the time as a child, and a teenager, and then a young adult, I’ve gotten turned around. I’ve come to understand him and love him. I was not able to say that for a long time, but now it’s different. I’ve grown up, and seeing what I see now…knowing what I know now, I mourn for all the lost time between us. But I will not waste that time between us to come. It is too precious.

Thanks dad, for helping me grow up a little, and teaching me how to stop growing up for a bit, to enjoy the world around me.

More later,

S

Coming off a three day weekend, and it feels grand to’ve been able to slack for once. Take today for instance. I spent most of the day playing video games after I woke up extremely late. Well, extremely late for me. And let me tell you, Final Fantasy VIII still rocks, the same as it ever did. I still like FF7 better, but FF8 has its own charm. I played it for 7 hours solid. And had a wonderful time doing it. I’d forgotten how nice it was just to be able to sit around and waste a day. It’s not something I do often, because usually I get bored and start working on something else that needs working on, but I just let loose and stole the day for me. Tomorrow it’s back to the grind, and I’m going to bed early tonight so that I can get up in the morning and have plenty of energy, but I say that I’ve immensely enjoyed my three day weekend. It’s almost like a vacation, the first I’ve taken in so long that I don’t remember when I’ve had an actual vacation. And after 35 hours in three days at the store, my mind and body were needing it. I know we’ll be busy tomorrow, and there’ll be headaches to deal with and customers that are a pain in the ass, but I will be able to look back at points through the day, steal little snatches of memory of just sitting and doing nothing, or talking with the wife, spending time with her, not neccessarily doing anything, just being together, enjoying a companionable silence. As Stephen King once said: These things are not Accidents. I’m sure of it.

More later,

S

Alright, I promised to tell you guys about what was going on when I could. It’s mostly over now except for the court case, so I suppose I can tell you about it.

Those who don’t know what happened:

I found some child pornography on a customer’s computer and had to call the police. Long story made short, I found 3 pictures on his system, called the cops, they came out, after some initial shock they got a detective out there to take the equipment into custody and started building their case against this guy. It took them a couple of days to catch him, even though he had no clue what was going on, and in the end they found 4 photos/jpegs in all. Apparently he admitted to getting them from someone over an internet chatroom.

So, in all, this guy has problems. He has no prior convictions, or even any runins with the law. He’s a handicapped individual, one who has had several brain surgeries for tumors. He has a trach tube because his left lung is collapsed and he walks with a limp. Good for him. What’ll happen (most likely) is this: He will plead guilty to four charges of posession of child pornography and they will sentence him to some kind of mental ward because he really is messed up in the head. If he goes to prison, they will break him in there. So his best hope is the mental ward. My hope is that he pleads guilty so I won’t even have to go to court about it. If he does, then everything will go better for everyone involved. If not then I’ll get to go to court and say ‘Yeah, I found them on his harddrive.’

Needless to say that made my week really weird. Not to mention the fact that between Saturday morning at 10am and monday night at 12:00am I worked 35 hours. So that’s where I’ve been this week. Maybe I’ll get the chance to sit back and blog about some more rational stuff from here on out.

More later,

S

It’s been a week since I last posted and I’ve wanted to post before now, but things have been happening that’s kept me from posting. I can’t go into it right now because a police investigation hangs on shit not getting out just yet (And I’m being totally serious here, I’m not pulling your leg to get a reaction). Some of you that know me, know what I’m talking about, and those of you that don’t will just have to wait until it’s blown over enough that a search won’t bring it up. And no, I’m not going to jail (at least not that I know of :p). So let’s just say that this has been one hellaciously interesting weird week. I can tell you that my father and I finally got the watermellon seeds in the ground and a bunch of other shit done on monday and hopefully come July we’ll be able to make a pretty good amount of money from it. Nothing to retire on, but some spending cash. As far as the rest goes, I’ll be able to talk more about it, probably later this week, you’ll just have to be curious about it until then. And I’m sorry that I’ve not posted before this, but too majorly weird a week for me to sit down and concentrate on blogging it yet.

More later,

S