Sans Jacket

 All right all right. I know. I’m sorry. I’ve been gone way too long. I haven’t even been checking my own blog. I checked it just now only to see Easter Eggs and a post blathering on about St Patrick’s Day shenanigans. I often tell myself that I blog because I want to. That if it becomes a task, than I will have to stop because I have plenty of things in my life that I NEED to do, far too few that I WANT to do. As long as this remains something that I WANT to do, than I will continue. And don’t worry, I will. I have a lot more to tell you about the 40 years between the day I was born and now. A few more of those posts are brewing in my head. Soon.

Yes 40 years. Not quite yet, but in about a week, I will be 40. I’ll write more about how I feel about this occasion in another post. I’m not quite sure yet how I feel.

So here, in short, are things I have been up to:

Bored silly at work. Our client is spending very little money and as such the workflow has ground to a halt. One of my best buddies in the office has left to concentrate on his own business. I am envious.

I finished reading “World made by hand”. I enjoyed it right up until the end where it got really sci-fi bullshit weird. That just ruined it for me. I still think it was a pretty good book, but not great. The concept had so much more potential.

I picked up “Candy Girl” by Diablo Cody and finished it in 4 days. She is the writer who won an Oscar for the screenplay of the movie “Juno”.  If you haven’t heard the story, she was a writer at a marketing firm and she quit her job to be a stripper. She just thought it might be fun. She stripped for about a year, and then went back to working in the real world. Her book is the story of that one year as a stripper. If you’ve the seen movie Juno and liked the style of the dialogue, then you will like the book. I mean, as long as the thought of reading about filthy strip clubs and filthier customers doesn’t make you cringe.

I went shopping for shirts

I got my hair cut

I started cleaning the basement

I hired a contractor to install a tankless water heater

I tried to fix the patio door. I need a part, will have to try again.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. It doesn’t seem like a lot, but somehow a few weeks has passed. And during that time, spring has sprung. I haven’t worn a jacket in two days. Lovin it!!