Rob's Easy Household Tips, Vol. I

Tip: If you want your garbage to be extra nasty, season liberally with about half a bowl of rancid dog food. Yum!

Interesting new odor recipes aside, it's been an all right couple of days. I spent yesterday avoiding doing anything worthwhile at all costs. In the process, I discovered that boredom can be a killer. News flash, I know. Much of the time I waste these days is spent sidequesting my way through Wind Waker. There's...really nothing I can say about that. :) At any rate, as eveningtime came on I headed out of the house and hit Atlantic City to meet my sister, as she was coming down from NYC for a quick visit. We met up, had dinner and hung out, and then came back to the homestead. We got up early this morning and went right back to A.C., she to catch a bus back to the City, and I to head to a (free) poker tournament. It was a good (if brief) visit, and it was an unproductive tournament. And so forth, and so on.

I was mostly planning to spend today catching up on e-mail; I've amassed a bit of a backlog. Ironically, my e-mail provider is having difficulties today, so I guess the e-mail catchup will have to wait. So it goes. Not having e-mail access also makes me feel oddly out of synch, so I feel weird cobbling a blog entry together. And now, having typed that out, it sounds ridiculous. Even so, I feel bound to blog only about broad and general topics.

Not that I even have a topic, really. Just an update. That said, I do have something cooking, so I might come back with a post a bit later on just about stuff in general. It's been quite a while since I rambled on about something that wasn't related to the state of my life. :) And with that, I shall for now take my leave. Peace!

Feelings of quality and a search for ideas

So, it's like this... I banged together the better part of a post that was basically just a ramble about stuff. It turned out to be mostly about love and loners (and me), but as I sat staring at it after a while, it came to me that it was pretty much crap. Not crap like bullshit...crap like it just didn't seem like a good post. It didn't feel particularly relevant or insightful, and it just felt like...I don't know...not worth posting. So, anyway, it's gone now...lost to Limbo. Which is fine; if I thought it was redeemable I would have worked on it, or at least posted it.

I'm not sure what happened, really; I'm not normally given to rejecting my own works for self-publication. :) Bizarrely, I blame kthrin for making me think about my process. :) But that's neither here nor there...the point is that I not only meant to write about something, but I actually did and then abandoned it. Strange.

So I turn to you, my readership. Anything on your mind? Anything you want me to write about? Comment with some ideas; maybe I can take a crack at something else. Truth be told, I'm looking for something to keep my mind busy. Good times.

In the meantime...

I'd like to solicit all y'all's opinions on a domestic matter, about which I've received different advice from different sources.

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