Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Plight of the Mythological Creature

In thinking about storybook creatures and those of folklore, several really cool ones come to mind. Griffins, unicorns, and jackalopes are just a few. But being a dragon would be pretty cool on most days. You'd have a really cool coat of scales, most fly and breathe fire, and to live in a lair with heaping mounds of gold coins and jewels as a couch beats Cribs and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with a stick! Most days you just sit around at home and occasionlly entertain visitors (afterwhich, you eat), and sometimes you go fly about and set things on fire, like trees and villages and whatnot. But there's days where being a dragon wouldn't be so cool. Torch bearing mobs shouting at the mouth of the lair, guys with armor piercing arrows taking cheapshots at you when you're trying to exercise, and the stares you'd get from the general public when you go into town for a coffee. Today is kinda one of those days for me. I feel like I'm a-draggin'. Get it? There's my witty, blogger play on words for the day. A Midnight ambulance run and general restless sleep otherwise with all that's on my plate for the day has got me running pretty slowly thus far. I'm hoping for better things later on.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Forming a Habit

There was a time, as evidenced by my earliest posts here, that this chunk of space in the www was well tended and flourishing. As with most things, especially my things, one thing led to another and something else pressing came up and the blog entry got pushed aside one too many times. You know how it goes. Anyhoo, I'm hoping ("yeah, you said that 3 years ago!") to be more regular about this. I think it's fun and, after reading over my early posts, gives me some clues as to where I've been and where I need to be. While I probably won't be habitual or "religious" about it (I need to be more religious about so many other things...including religion!), I hope to be more regular. So Frank, Eric, you in the sweats..., and the rest of you who accidentally happen upon these entries, enjoy this one (and the ones to follow) for what it's worth.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

A modest reply

Alright,
I got razzed a couple weeks ago when my father- and brother-in-law found my blog and saw that I hadn't made a post in over 2 years! 'Tis true, loyal readers, I've been bad. Hopefully, I can make it up to you...I'm not sure how I'll go about doing that, though. Anyways, for those of you who have been anxiously awaiting my latest post (the guy who's not moved from his computer room since Vista sounded like a good idea, before Bieber-fever took the world by storm, and tweets were only made by birds is going to be thrilled!), here's what you've missed.

MA in Contemporary Theology in May of 2008
New England trip-Summer 2009
started driving an amblulance-October 2009
Turned 30-May 2010
became an iPhone owner-Christmas 2010
sold my house-March 2011

There you go. Now you're all caught up. I hope you feel better now. And you, sir, Mr. Loyal Reader, can go change your clothes, clean up a little, step outside and get some fresh air. Your family misses you. And you're weirding me out, a little.