The Misspent Life

I'm Not the Only One

I interrupt my hiatus to remark that it seems that just about everyone has done the same thing I have.  By putting my keyboard down for a few weeks I had hoped I could gleefully intersperse pithy and useless comments on others' sites, but how can I when they disappear?  Anyway, like a bear, fat and furry, I go back into hibernation...

Ho Ho Ho

It is with great regret that I inform you that The Misspent Life will be shutting down in preparation for the Christmas Holiday.  My time and energies are required elsewhere at the moment.  Best wishes to all of you.

Whap!

This is not the answer to bratty kids (via Drudge).  A good backhand is the answer.

Yargh!

Having recommendation issues.  Will be glad when they are all settled.  I realize that I am being a pain in the backside to my dear recommenders and I owe them my life.

UPDATE: Recommendation issue resolved!!

But, someone left their alarm on in the hotel room next to mine and it has been going for more than an hour.  Time to go to dinner and tell the front desk to TURN IT OFF!!

(BTW, this week's postings will suck and all be titled with strange, gutteral words. DEAL WITH IT.)

Update: I just got back from dinner.  Went to a great little tapas restaurant and had several PBRs! IN RICHMOND!  AT A TAPAS RESTAURANT! HOW CRAZY IS THAT??

Yikes!

Y'all have been busy.  As have I.  For those of you following my computer drama, I got my computer back yesterday with a new hard drive and all the files recovered.

Other than that, I have a few things I'd like to talk with you about, but honestly I've just come back from dinner and have had a bit to drink, so with that I bid you "GOOD NIGHT!"

Oof

Last night I tidied my apartment, much like this fellow did.  Although I imagine that my starting point was much cleaner than his end point, if I know him right.  After several weeks of boxes and books all about I had forgotten just how spacious my apartment was.  I had also forgotten that I had two rocking chairs.

At the end of the evening I went through my weekly check of the refrigerator--will anything spoil and reek before I get home?  I found that my milk was set to expire Monday so I decided that I might as well finish it off.  So I made hot chocolate.  I had bought the milk exclusively for hot chocolate so it was whole milk.  It is probably not a good idea to drink four cups of whole milk before bed time, even if it is hot, so I took the opportunity to utilize my neglected bottle of peppermint schnapps.  That made everything OK.

Although I still taste the schnapps this morning!

Tell Me...

...is there anyone more disgusting and foul than Elton John? Surely, he gives Michael Jackson a run for his dwindling money.  He is a dirty little pig, not the Taiwanese.

What I Did Today, and How I Know I Like It

What does one do when one has no friends and does not have his usual computer do play with?  Well, first of all he can a) not clean his apartment, b) take a nap, c) read, d) eat.

I did all those things today (whew! and I am tired) and MORE!  The most interesting thing, though, was my nap.

Trouble

God damn it.  I hate this loaner computer I have.  I just wrote a post and when I hit the enter button my browser went back and I lost it.

Loaner computer you ask?  Why do I use that phrase?  Because my usual computer decided that it didn't like its hard drive last night and attempted to break it in two.  You see, the hard drive started to disintigrate.  The tech support folks are attempting to get what they can off of it, and I hope they can because it has all my school stuff on it--my essays and lists of schools and deadlines and addresses and e-mails.  I am a very grumpy and unhappy young man.  I was to call one of my recommenders (the other being caught up in all this Bernard Kerik stuff) but couldn't since I couldn't get to his phone number, and I was to e-mail professors at the three schools due on the 15th.  Well, couldn't do that since I didn't have access to a computer and don't have the list of people or websites in my browser.  Since the weekend is here I may as well wait until I get the old computer back--if it has my files on it.

So Now You Know

...that my five favorite Christmas Carols are:

1. Est ist ein Ros', entsprungen
2. Angels We Have Heard on High
3. Veni, Veni Emmanuel
4. Stille Nacht
5. Greensleeves

This is to counter the negativity coming from the LlamaButchers.