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I finally got called on my dearth of posts by both Hoat and Black Dog Jones. What can I say? Sometimes, you just aren’t feelin’ it. Actually, there are several reasons for my dearth of posts. Mostly, its been a lack of time. I got a new girlfriend and have been spending time with her when I am not working. When I do work, that’s all I do. Sandwiched between two 12-hour night shifts is sleep. I can’t type posts when my girlfriend is visiting over a weekend because that would require me to go upstairs alone and clack away on a keyboard, leaving her alone downstairs. That won’t fly for most women. I guess I could type downstairs using the laptop, but then she would probably want to read what I was writing as I was doing it. She knows I have a blog but just doesn’t seem interested. Otherwise, she would hound me about the address.
No, mostly I have been thinking about blog posts like writing a term paper is for a procrastinator. Before I know it, I have no time so what’s the point? I should buy an egg timer, set it for fifteen minutes, and limit myself to just that slice of time. It would certainly diminish my anxiety when it comes to blog posts. Whatever I had after fifteen minutes would get posted more or less. I would label this as a Crazy Scheme. I have a couple of other Crazy Schemes in mind. Maybe that will be a new feature on this blog.
I did make it to Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend, although I procrastinated and the news became flat. Here was my weekend in a nutshell.
-Arrived on Friday
-Ate dinner at Rainforest Cafe with virtually my entire family who had all arrived in Vegas in an incredible string of serendipity.
-Slept
-Won some money at computerized BlackJack (maybe $30)
-Visited Bodies:The Exhibition at Tropicana
-Took a nap that turned into 12-hours of sleep. Woke up at 0200 (Only slept six hours the previous two nights).
-Got in trouble by my girlfriend for sleeping away a Saturday night in Vegas.
-Called in sick to work sitting in my hotel room at Excalibur heh heh.
-Went home. Got diarrhea, presumably from Corned Beef and Hash breakfast at Sherwood Cafe.
I still had fun, especially since I can play Blackjack and Roulette on the computer and not with some gesticulation at a card table.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:00
Vegas baby, VEGAS!!
Nice to have you back Sonic
June 8th, 2007 at 5:47
Thanks, although the egg timer still sounds like a good idea.
June 9th, 2007 at 13:00
Hey I know how it is… I try to post but the little woman wants to be held or something, it can create quite a rift.
Nice picture of the Tropicana.
June 9th, 2007 at 16:40
Yeah, I got that picture on one of those bridges that stretches over the Strip connecting Excalibur with the street outisde of the Tropicana. I stood over a trashcan for a sec, but you’re right, it is nice. I wonder how it would’ve looked at night.
June 10th, 2007 at 13:50
pretty cool at night… I havent been there much in the past few years but the last time I was in vegas I didnt recognize the place. I like Reno a little better because it still has that old west feeling about it.
June 10th, 2007 at 13:51
Maybe you can carry around one of those memory/ voice recorder sticks. That way when an idea hits you at the most inconvenient moments in life (like waiting for your food at the IN-N-OUT Burger), you can record your original thoughts on it. Then transcribe at home. Just a thought. I’m not trying to make more work for you, but your loyal fans have been jones’n of late.
June 10th, 2007 at 16:00
That will also let everyone know how important to this great Earth, especially those at In N Out as well as Jamba Juice and Mervyn’s, my other frequent hang outs.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:39
I’m glad it was a new girlfriend and not some kind of Artie Bucco hand injury! Can’t wait to hear from you about all this.
When I first starting seeing my wife a while back, the handwritten journals became ticking timebombs. I can identify with all this…the lack of writing coinciding with some waka-chika-waka…it happens.
Going to have to up my visit frequency back to normal now that I know you’re back in it. And remember about that idea we had a while back about this and that with the technology and the WORD-ING…blavin’
June 11th, 2007 at 9:44
Good idea! I had (s/b ‘have’, but the house has swallowed it up) one of those, and it always ended up in the hands of a little one aiming to destroy it. I figure it’s one of those things where you get a rhythm over time, and it becomes second nature to hit the record button. When I had the time and freedom to really get some use out of it, I’d be too stoned or drunk to remember and if I did, what ended up on the thing wasn’t good. Wish I had that thing now though!
Mainly because there are no pens in my house…rather, there are thousands of pens in my house, but I don’t know where any of them are…just crayons and missed opportunities.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:57
I KNEW you were neglecting us for your girlfriend…oooh those girls are nothing but trouble. tee hee. Just kidding. sorta. Missed your posts, that’s all.
Glad to hear you had fun in Vegas. My honey always gets upset with me when we go out of town and I want to take long naps in between all other vacationing activities. He says it’s a vacation, we should be out doing as much as we can. I say, “It’s MY vacation too, dammit. and if I want to sleep it away that’s MY perrogative.” I have to admit, it’s very hard to sleep while in Vegas though.
June 11th, 2007 at 18:27
Sonic - readers…didn’t know if you decided to get that cable box or not, so I posted the last two episodes of Sopranos over at my site. I should have the entire 6th season up there by the end of the week. Trying to keep it under wraps so they don’t get yanked, so please don’t spread word of this. Enjoy!
June 12th, 2007 at 3:59
Hey Al,
Been trying to access your video clips a few days ago without success. I click on the video clip and I am sent directly to the slashdot.com website. Is there any trick to the slash.com website/link? (I created an account there, but no luck in viewing said v-clip.)
June 12th, 2007 at 4:28
Does it have to do with your Apple status, Bernie?
June 16th, 2007 at 22:39
I just got back from Vegas and all I got was strep-fucking-throat..and a sinus infection. what is in the hotel air over there?
June 17th, 2007 at 6:27
It’s cigarette smoke, babe.
June 19th, 2007 at 14:13
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