My Addled Brain

I know everyone missed me, but last week was a very, very good one for me. No job to speak of (yet), some opportunities still sitting out there, however. Obviously, that’s not why I think it was such a good week.

This is why it was such a good week. Everyone, meet Amy, otherwise known as Admirer_01.

We’ve known each other since the end of last year, via that life-stealing entity known as EQ. We got to know each other, started talking on the phone, and somehow I talked her into taking a vacation and visiting the sunny climes of Florida, removing her from the frozen wasteland that is northern Idaho. This was after she had seen my website and everything. I didn’t know what to expect, so I kept my expectations to a minimum until she got here. We visited friends, went to the beach, and caught the Jerry Seinfeld show in Orlando. We talked at lenght about everything under the sun. We enjoyed each other’s company. I’m not going into detail here - while this is a public forum for me to broadcast my life to anyone who might care to listen, some things get to stay mine. Let’s just say my phone bill isn’t getting any smaller anytime soon.

I know I’ve kept this under wraps from a lot of people, including some in my own family. It’s not because I didn’t want to tell all of you, because I did. But I didn’t want to make this a big thing and then it not work out. But now that it has happened, and things are…well…wonderful, I’m letting the cat out of the bag. The Brat may now commence the e-mail/phone call barrage.

We also caught a couple movies, so you know what that means - stop, haiku time! X2:

Would my ability
to shed hair off of my head
make me a mutant?

I know you’ve already seen it: The Matrix Reloaded

I’ll trade all Neo’s
powers for a key that
opens the damn plot.

Anyone feel like they fast-forwarded through the last hour of that movie? They spend ten minutes on a long, pointless dance/sex scene, but spend thirty seconds setting up the attack to get Neo into the Source? Prioritites, people. If I want to see topless girls dancing to music, I’ll go elsewhere.

And there you have it. Admirer_01 has returned to the frozen north, and I return to hunting for a job. Life carries on - but now, it has just a bit more purpose.