Then once more and now before it’s bouncing ’round my head.

November 2, 2003

Googling someone’s name always produces an interesting set of results for many people, a mixture of random entries regarding them in the case of some people I know, and in others whole laundry lists of people with the same name but nothing on them specifically. Naturally, I’m first when you Google my name, whether it’s contained by quotation marks or not. I’ve had a couple of people find me via that method already, so it’s all good.

I sat around most of today wondering whether I should have sent a particular email or not. Not to say that I just sat in front of my computer all day long (though there was a great deal of that anyway, dang Sundays), but my thoughts were on that email for a long time. It wasn’t anything serious and I don’t regret anything that was in it, but after I sent it I wondered if I should have at all. Prudence forbids me from giving details, but let’s just say that it seemed like a good idea at the time, but in retrospect it may not have been…what’s a good word…timely. Yeah, that’s a good one. You know how you say something and at the time it sounds like a perfectly normal idea, but when looking back on it you don’t know why it even popped into your head? Well, I’ve had a lot of that going around lately, apparently. I had to go back to my 1998 emails again to look for another tidbit of information in my own personal mystery, and I came across the same emails that I mentioned before, though this time I made sure not to read them. Far too embarassing, and in some cases humiliating. There are many things in my past that I chose not to dwell on, and unfortunately, many of them sit in my Out mailbox in my copy of Eudora. Not staring me in the face…but among the 5076 sent emails, there are memories that I’d rather not dig up again.

OK, you can stop skimming, Dad. I know that you, and probably a few others of my readers tend to skim when my paragraphs start rambling about some things, but hey, this website is as much for me as it is for you. Hopefully someday I won’t look back on some of the content of this site as I have done with some of my past emails. I don’t get into a lot of the same personal stuff as I do in email or instant message conversations, however, so probably not.

I don’t know why, but the last couple of nights I have been dead tired. Last night I started dozing off around 11, but I forced myself to stay up until at least midnight. Tonight my eyes were droopy at 7 PM, but of course that was far too early to head to bed. I don’t like falling asleep before midnight for some reason, even if I have to get up early the next morning, 12 AM is my preferred bedtime.

Last night there wasn’t much on TV at all. That’s the way most Saturdays are, really, even with digital cable at my Dad’s house, so I usually either watch one of my own movies or rent one at Blockbuster. I was going to rent The Italian Job (the remake, not the original) on the advice of a friend, but I didn’t want to go out in the cold just to run up the the movie store, so I checked the listings. It turned out that Commando starring California’s new Governor-elect was starting, and since I’d never seen it before, I gave it a whirl. HORRIBLE movie. Decent action, but it was just midless predictable mayhem with no story. Short, too. When it finished I switched channels and found that Predator was on FX–another Arnold movie, naturally–so I watched the end of that. As I went to sleep, I watched part of Total Recall. All of theese were different channels, too. That’s a lot of Arnold on TV in one night. I noticed that Total Recall was on again today, too. Different channel. I guess all the networks that couldn’t air Arnold movies while he was running for Governor of California are playing catch up. Unfortunately, it makes for some pretty macho TV in the meantime.

I don’t really have anything to say. I had a great Friday night and a decent rest of the weekend, but I do have a few things on my mind right now that I just don’t want to write about yet. Some of them I’ve written enough about already which is why I’m holding back. Plus, I have to use cliffhangers to keep my readers interested, right? Right?

Right.

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