I actually had an idea for this blog last night, but given I had already had penned one I didn't see the need for two and the few people who actually read this drivel are probably thankful that I put a limit on myself.
Tomorrow marks the date of my family reunion, to be held at the Shelocta Sportsman's Club, much as it has been for many years now, except this year I am not going. My last experience there was enough for me for a while. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but too many of us in the same location for too long of a time just brings about a stress level that I am not willing to be part of this year. The event comes with lots of fun and games, everyone brings a covered dish and some prizes to be given out, baubles to be given to the kids and larger items for the adults. Last time I made a cheese, rice and broccoli dish which I thought was tasty, but what the hell do I know anyway, I eat dinner at the Squirrel Cage.
Anyway, as I was saying, the last one I went to ended up turning into an argument over the stupidest of things, how the prizes that we're going to be raffled off ( some of the games require money for tickets, that money goes back into the rental of the place for the following year) were arranged on benches. It was stupid and petty and just involved some stress I do not need, not right now when I am trying to make sure we keep the doors open at work and everyone gets paid. I have enough stress, thank you very much, not looking for more.
I think my mom may be going this year, it would be good for her to get out and do something besides the routine of sleep, watch TV and sleep again. In case you were wondering, no her condition hasn't improved. The last time I talked to her it seems to have gotten worse. Shortly thereafter her husband texted me to complain that all she does is sleep. Like just what the fuck am I supposed to do about that, drop everything here to make sure she gets out of bed in the morning when he is there and not working? I suggested two things when she got out of the hospital ( though I am not a doctor so my advice should only go so far ) one being she needs to get up and out more, even if it is a walk around the neighborhood, just something to get the blood flowing and two she needed to alter her diet, because most of the time they would eat out or get a pizza or something, and just coming off of a stroke, I do not recommend the Matt Pritt diet plan. By the way, my food has arrived. You already forgot where I was, didn't you.
Gratuitous food porn
Ever since my grandparents passed away my family has gotten very cliquish. This one won't talk to that one and this one thinks this about that one type nonsense. More shit I want to stay out of. For the late comers, we covered this territory in much more detail a few years ago, should have gotten here sooner.
By the way, every Friday on Pittsburgh bloggers on Facebook they ask for links to blogs, I have been taking what I feel to be my best work of the past seven days and posting it over there.
While I am on this stream of consciousness thing, I should explain yesterday's title, which said I was approach 1900 posts. Truth be told I may be passed that number already, there were some lost blog entries back in the Yahoo 360 days. I had issues with my password not working and after spending time proving I was who I said I was and getting my Yahoo account back and functional, reinstatement came at a price, the price being all of my older material. So chances are I am passed 1900 posts by now and just don't know it. Likewise my blog has been viewed over 19,000 times according to tracemyip.org. Of course it still has logs from my old Multiply site, which got 4000+ of those views. So to the 19000 of you, or the one person that was here 19000 times, thanks.
I still thing I am going to change the blog page at some point, but being sans laptop makes that idea just an idea and not a reality. My desktop is barely function with one tab open at this point and this would definitely be a multi tab operation. Last night I was catching up on Days of Our Lives on Hulu and during a commercial break I went to open another tab in Chrome for Facebook and everything came to a grinding halt. Video playback stopped and Facebook didn't open. I didn't borrow the money from work, I am going to wait out the lack of a laptop until I get paid again on Wednesday and then order it from Amazon. That might require another trip to the cage, seeing as how I will be coming to Squirrel Hill that day. I like to make all of my Amazon purchases with gift cards ( one less place to have my debit card info ) and Coinstar machines give you full value if you are buying a gift card, as opposed to taking nearly a dime off of every dollar if you use them to count change. So all I need to do is price the laptop, then buy the gift card for the requisite amount, and taa daa.
Besides, as long as I am allowed to smoke and eat ( and not be treated as a second class citizen for smoking ) I will continue to frequent The Cage. One of my pet peeves is when walking down the street with someone approaching me, they turn my smoking into a theatrical production. Like the cars that are passing them by are kicking up way more pollution than my cigarette is, yet I don't see these people go into near death convulsions when a car does drive by. Fucking hypocrites anyway.
Okay, finished my dinner, time to drink my tea and go. Toodles everyone.
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