Practical Penumbra

Ill Assortment

Well I had planned on posting long before this, but my email provider has been having "issues" and I've spent the last hour and a half trying to access my email account. Sigh....
So assorted things I am considering as blog-fodder:

My GM got called to active duty and is headed to Iraq for a year. This leaves the owner in charge. (Can you hear me screaming? It's interrupted by the occasional whimper...). I mentioned the dead cash register didn't I? Without the GM to run errands the only way I could get a new one was to join Sam's Club and go buy one myself (which I did yesterday). So I have to take it into work today and program it (or I could go in early tomorrow, which is tempting). Not sure which will triumph, but since I'm a terrific procrastinator (it's one of my best things) tomorrow will probably win out.

The Lost Post was a reponse to something Harvey posted about. It had to do with "online persona" (as opposed to "real persona" I guess) and the fact that a fellow blogger once expressed surprise at learning my age, because my "online persona" was so youthful.
The thing is, I don't have multiple personas. Seriously. What you read is what you get. The things I rant about online are things I rant about to family and friends. The anecdotes I share have usually been on their second, third or fourth telling by the time I blog them. And stuff I don't talk about on my blog is stuff I don't talk about. Maybe the impression of youthfulness I apparently give is due to a basic immaturity, or maybe it's because I spend my work days exclusively with teen-agers. The latter is the reason that phrases such as "Dude, I'm freaking serious" and "I'm going to just chill at the crib" have crept into my speech...

There was some news thing that's making the blog rounds. Oh, yeah--Massachusetts...Gay Marriage...blah blah blah. Big deal.
It's not like marriage means anything anymore. It used to mean a life-long committment to one person. Now it's like a job--stick with it a few years, get bored or tired, and then look for a new one. So the opinions I've read about gay marriage being bad because gay men are promiscuous or something don't really make sense in a country where Bill Clinton is still admired by some people, divorce is an eventuality people prepare for with pre-nups, and people have kids together without ever getting married. What needs to be done is outlaw divorce. Then when two people get married they have to mean it, whether gay or straight.

Well, I guess that's about all I've been saving up. Next up: The Exciting World of Laundry, Part I: to Bleach or Not to Bleach, That is the Question....