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such a lonely word

October 16, 2009 in Personal by Ben | 1 comment

So, why the hell not, tagged (kinda) by Busy Mom to do the Completely Honest thing.

I have to say 10 honest things about myself.

Ahem.

  1. I only had four hours of sleep last night, and today keep getting chills.
  2. Okay, that one was lame. You don’t wanna hear that kinda stuff, do you? Well, I blame the chills on eating barbecue last night and not getting enough sleep.
  3. Oh, wow, this is easy! I’m already to number three.
  4. I suffer from depression. Sometimes less, sometimes more, but it never truly goes away.
  5. I have finished two books so far this year. One of them I started in 2007. Shut up. I’m trying to set a good example for others. I fully plan to finish a third by the end of the year.
  6. When something tragic (or potentially tragic) happens, I tend to crack jokes. It’s a coping mechanism. Not everyone likes this about me. Usually they are too kind to say anything about it; I realize that it can be off-putting and I try to control myself.
  7. This should not be a surprise if you’ve ever read my blog, but I kinda like movies. That’s why I didn’t get much sleep last night (weren’t you paying attention? That was number 1, and two.) I went to see Where the Wild Things Are at the midnite movie
  8. Going to midnite movies here makes me feel incredibly old, not only am I like double anyone’s age, but I was the only one a) sober and 2) driving a minivan.
  9. Speaking of old, can you believe Favre is still playing? And undefeated? (at this writing). While technically this statement is not about me, it is honest.
  10. Depression means I constantly have to step back from the keyboard, because the stuff I might write would probably get me the “loony” label faster than you can say Balloon Boy’s Family Gets Their Own TV Show. At the very least it would all be presented in divorce proceedings. So step away I do, a lot, and instead talk about movies and football and balloons.

Go, do.

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that navel isn’t going to gaze at itself

September 10, 2008 in Fat Guy, Personal by Ben | 3 comments

So, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything remotely meaningful here.

I was wondering about that. I mean, my blog is a little like therapy, and worth every penny. Also, you only get out of it what you put into it. I’m sure I can find another cliche to toss in here if I wanted to.

I started this thing years ago, and to this day my most popular posts are anythign that mention Emma Watson, Texas Cheerleaders, liquor stores, boobs of any kind, and granny sex. See? There’s no accounting for taste.

A new school year is upon us, I now have three kids in school. This, of course, is exciting and challenging, as any of you with school kids already know. There is much to be done on a given day, from homework to bathtime to extracurricular things. The other night I spent 45 minutes braiding my daughter’s hair, trying to give my wife a break (she’s the expert), and of course when my wife saw it by the light of the next morning, it all had to come down.

Since I fret here on occasion about energy issues (we are in a crisis, whether folks want to call it one or not), I thought I’d mention how odd it is that oil prices continue to fall (as of today) in spite of most of the gulf of mexico production remaining idle thanks to Gustav and now Ike. Ike could truly hit hard – the forecasters are saying it could be the worst Texas hurricane (himacane?) in forty years. Unless it isn’t. You know how these things are, so so many variables and unknowns. We’ll just wait and see. Now as for me, personally, the most I’ll see is a bunch of rain (if it follows the predicted track it should go right up the middle of the state, and we’d be on the rainy side). I’m a five hour drive inland from Corpus, on a good day, and three hours up from Galveston, so you can see that the brunt of the storm should be spent before it gets here.

We need the rain.

However, my wife is still ticked at me for not wanting to go to the beach last weekend, and this weekend the weather looks like crap, and if the storm surge is as bad as they predict there may not be much beach left to visit the following weekend.

Time will tell.

As you can see by looking around here, most of my blogging is on twitter, and that’s all well and good, but leaves me leaving a bit fractured. I’m gonna check the magic box on this entry and post a link to this to twitter, too. What the hell.

I’ve been running, trying for three days a week. I wound up at 12 miles in August and so far I’ve got 10 in September, which is a whole lot better than July (2 miles! On the same day!) and hopefully I’ll get close to the 40 miles per month I was logging in June and prior. I’m also doing the hundred pushups program, but I had to step back and do a “prequel” to week 1 since I’m so wimpy.

We need to buy a new printer, since we killed our existing one. I’m torn on trying to get too fancy or just saving money since we’ll break this one in a couple years. We really enjoy having a scanner and the ability to print photos, but in reality we don’t print them much, we can do it at Walgreens about as easily. But they dont’ cost toooo much, and are necessary for homework assignments.

Oh, crap, is my time up already? Oh well. Back to reality.

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