Monk!

I spent a lazy evening last night sitting around on the patio, reading The DaVinci Code (which is turning out to be rather disappointing, after all the hype I’d heard about it). Poor Clueless watched as I read, hoping that I’d break down and let him come out for a while. I would have too,…

Life is too short to persist in that which brings no happiness. Anyone who understands can tell the Dutch Scotsman that my nom de plume will not blight his computer screen from this day forward. I am done with that sector of cyberspace, and any sector with associated links. The playing field belongs to him….

… said Eeyore gloomily. -“So it is.” “And freezing.” -“Is it?” “Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.” At least we still have power at the halfway point. I walked out to the primary road in front of my house a few hours ago and snapped…

I’m sitting here at Big Name Book Store behind the charity gift wrap table. I am by myself. That’s pretty nearly literal, as the store is nearly devoid of customers. At least half of the non-employees who are here are located in the café drinking stuff out of tall white paper cups with sippy lids…

Well, this one is probably the least serious of all of them that have passed through Dear Diary recently, I got this from Fury22’s entry of earlier today ( Fury22 ), who in turn stumbled across it in Hidingbehindmyself’s Diary. We really should do a whisper down the lane thing here, where everybody keeps track…

OK, I’ve calmed down a bit from last night. Yes, The Professor was talking out of extreme frustration. But he is one of the worst time-management people I have ever met. “Time” for him is a superfluous concept, and clocks exist only to make his life miserable. More often than not he has no concept…