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go jump in a goddamn volcano, you fucking cave newt

I swore i'd never make the by-now cliché "i'm sorry i haven't been blogging" update to my journal. I also had a snappy putdown for myself in my mind this morning when i was thinking about writing it, but a day of resetting firewalls and building bookcases and Pilsner Urquell means that i've forgotten my clever phrase. But never mind that. The point is, i don't owe you, the reader, anything; this is my fucking journal and i'll write in it when i write in it about whatever it is i'm writing about. No, wait, that's completely wrong. If i didn't owe you, the reader, anything, then i should just shutter the whole operation and write my journal on paper in elegant longhand and store it under lock and key (as opposed to under lock with no key, because then i'd never be able to get it out). Anyway, "Fuck me, fuck you, fuck everyone," as that great patriot Al Jourgensen once said.

I think the World Cup recaps were a little draining, albeit not nearly as draining as actually getting up to watch nearly every early game. Work has been a busy affair, what with getting familiar, actual tasks, and moving my workspace twice in two months (and top that off with an impending trip to Bangalore). To compound that, my workspace at home was also disrupted, specifically by a CPU failure. So not only have i been too busy to sit down and be creative, but when i have sat down, it hasn't been in a place where i felt comfortable. So all you've gotten from me since the Cup ended has been soccer reports, link dumps, cheap one-liners, and ~~anti-Semitic crap~~ bad sports analogies.

I've had the next part of E&TG sitting on the hard drive of my (now fully operational ~~battle station~~) workstation, and gods has it been so long since i've worked on the damn story, and i just want to finish the damn thing.

There's lots of detritus and debris in my head of things i wanted to write about. I know i have some empty wine bottles kicking around the house that are waiting to be written about while the memory of their flavor is still present. I have to write a book report of Eco's The Name of the Rose for my dad. I also want to review a couple of movies. We'll see how it goes, but at least now i can get on with it. My journal: confessional booth or bathroom stall? You, the reader: priest or creepy voyeur? I think i'm done. Am i done? Yeah, i'm done.

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Bangalore?

Oh, and fuck you, you fucking fuck!

We have a brand new subsidiary in Bangalore. They need help with their network. That's where i come in. My name is rone. I carry a WAN accelerator. These are my adventures.

Bangalore needs more wang accelerators?

Why is your accelerator so wan, anemic firmware?

Because i could not stop IP
It kindly stopped for me
Our packet carried but us both
and good ol' TCP

When do you go to Bangalore and how long will you be there? Will you get any vacation time to see other parts of India?

Don't know yet, probably a week, and i seriously doubt it. I'll probably lose two days just adjusting to the 12h30' difference, unless i can manage to work at night (which i'm actually hoping for).

We should chat sometime about wine reviews. I'm looking for some reviews for a project, preferably something accessible to normalish people who don't want a nose or palate in their wine, and preferably some of it from "local" wineries.

I have a half-plan brewing in my head to visit all Santa Cruz Mountain wineries that will have me, maybe one or two a weekend. The trick is to be firm and not buy wine at every stop or i'll be even broker than now.

Does this plan occur in one day or does it occur over several days, perhaps over several weekends? I ask because I once tried to visit three SCruz wineries in one day, was only able to get to two, and failed not to purchase wine at each winery. Thankfully, someone else was driving!

Ha, one day... in my year-old pamphlet, there are 56 wineries listed, from Half Moon Bay all the way down to Watsonville. One a weekend would take over a year. During a SCMWA Passport (http://scmwa.com/passport/) weekend, Kim and i, together with

dr_strych9 and Gina, visited 4 wineries, and that's a good, safe upper limit.

Would you believe, "creepy priest"? ULC (http://ulc.org) has its advantages. At least, I think they're advantages. But I'm creepy.

Well fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck. Have another beer Mr. Crankypants.

I think there's been a recent downturn in blogging, as least among the blogs that I read. But I think I share some of your sentiments about what and who by own blog is about. On one hand, it's all about me. I try to write about things that I want to write about--bitter complaints, rants, successes, and general cultural ephemera.

On the other hand, I like knowing that people read my blog and would like to retain (and sometimes expand) the small group of readers that I have. I've tried to keep private (handwritten) journals in the past, and they've always fizzled out after a month or two.

So, as a kind of weak compromise, I usually settle for posting pictures or links when I don't really feel like writing much just to keep the whole endeavor afloat.

Anyhow, enough pontificating. I hope you do post your wine reviews because I'd like to read them. (I should probably do the same--'ve been going Southern Rhone crazy this summer--but I haven't found a way to write about wine that doesn't sound either pretentious or simplistic.)

I settle on simplistic, usually, and let enthusiasm carry me forward.

*beso*

You got something against voyeuristic priests? Huh?

My answer should be more of a, "I did, dropped out, but will read it when you finish".

As far as wine goes, when are you taking David and me to Bonny Dune (or wherever else you want to go)?

I thought I'd bring up a happy thought for you to look forward to...

I'll try to get something going before David moves to SF at the end of the month.

And I'm planning on coming to your soccer game on Thursday. 6:50 pm, correct?

I don't know, are you?

Is 6:50 the correct time for the commencement of your soccer match OR NOT?!

Ahh, yes, it is. I misparsed your comment's punctuation.

LOL, don't ever misparse again!!!

Skimming them as they come out, waiting for I don't know what to prompt me to go back and find them all and read them through.

Well, if the above "E&TG" link doesn't do it, then you're clearly in the "No, but i will read it all when you finish" camp. I'll be certain to make a radio button for "[convoluted vardissakheli response]" next time.

I just didn't quite count myself as having dropped out, and certainly not permanently. There are just so many different levels of "reading" something in between total disregard and repeated perusal that it's hard to say where "not reading" begins.

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