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The thrift store of my mind. My therapist says that I have to let it out or I will get a headache.

We'd love for you to join us for the holidays...

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As the holidays are fast approaching, it is time to take a step back and remember what is important this time of year, things like standing in line in the cold at 3AM, trampling your fellow man to get the latest animated Elmo plush toy, and causing the doors of your local discount emporium to collapse beneath the weight of greed all in the name of a good deal. Ahh...the spirit of giving. I will be proudly celebrating my 12th consecutive National Buy Nothing Day this year and I hope that you join the festivities. It's what all of the cool kids are doing. You want to be cool don't you? C'mon, you know you do.

A long and busy day...

Today was such a long and busy day.   I left the house at 6:30AM to meet with a friend in order to help him set up all of his technology refresh.  After completing the refresh and such, I met up with my friend Deacon Cunningham and we went to our Kiwanis Club Chili Day fundraiser.   I had three bowls myself, and the good deacon had two; I'm a growing boy.

 

I left Deacon Cunningham at the chili event as he wanted to stay longer than I did and I had things to do.   My first stop was to The Home Depot to purchase a purchase a new ventilation hood for above the cook top and a new cook top itself.   The Home Depot was out of the cook top that I wanted and the vent hood had to be ordered due to the size that I needed.   After leaving the Depot, I made a quick dash home to let the dogs out to do their do, a quick trip to the library to return some things, and then back to the chili event in order to pick up my friend and give him a lift home.  After that was completed, I went to Lowe's to look for a new refrigerator.   I finally found the one that I wanted; I liked it so I had them "put a ring on it."  I've decided to name her Delilah Joan.   I also picked up a new ceiling fan which I am already over and will return it sometime soon.

 

After wrapping up things at Lowe's, I went to yet another The Home Depot to see if they had the cook top that I wanted in stock but they did not so I just ordered it.   By this time I was ready for dinner as all of the driving, walking, talking, buying, ordering, and interaction with the general populous had left me hungry so I went with the maternal unit to Smashburger and had a BBQ Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger and we split an order of Smash Fries...it was all so delish.

Now I'm back at home where I belong with a full belly and the company of my fur and feather children.  I am going to catch up on some podcasts and have some much needed internet time.

Waiting to exhale...

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So I had a date tonight, and my date brought along his trusty breathalyzer.   I wish that he would have left the device at home but seeing as how his car would not start without breathing into the devices, that would not have been practical.  "If anything happens, and it goes off and I can't get to it, just breathe in it."  Sadly in a way that I found comical, that was just where the shadiness began for the evening...

There were reservations under a false name, and then a constant string of SMS messages.   He apologized for the constant SMS messages, "I'm sorry...I just need to cover my tracks...ya' know, make sure my I's are dotted and my T's are crossed."   I explained to him that I did not know as my lifestyle does not put me in any situation where tracks must be covered.   As the evening was winding down I was asked, "So do you want to go and get a room?  I know this place off of the highway?"  I informed him that I had my own room at home and that's where I would like to go as I had some writing to get done this evening.

He was kind enough to walk me to my door and to let me know that if I ever wanted to get freaky that he had two other homeboys that he could call so that they could all treat me right.  I hope that he meant fanning me with palm fronds and feeding me dates from Cyprus.

Sometimes I laugh to keep from throwing knives and high fiving people in the face with my heel.

Green Acres is the place for me...

I've been hyper-productive all morning, and it was a terrific way to start the day.  All three dogs and the parrot were fed and watered.  I tossed on my overalls, slipped into my Birkenstock Super Clogs, brought out some of my grandfather's gardening tools and went to work.  I turned my compost bin, did some poo patrol, bagged leaves, sawed more than a few branches, and filled some holes, washed and swept the driveway, and picked up all of the sticks that the oaks tend to drop.  I have to say, I make a delicious batch of earthy compost and I cannot wait to use it come Spring.  You have to feed the earth as it feeds you.  Now it's time to shower, shave and then get my day started all over again.

It begins...

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I told myself that after the period of time known as the Second Great Encoding that I would never again undertake such a massive task, but yet here I sit poised on this great precipice of ripping and encoding once again.  I have four machines ready to embark upon this most arduous crusade of psycho-acoustic conversion; may the gods have mercy on their optical drives.  It begins...