Paul, Paul, the Pizzamonkey!

Woot!

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:43:19 -0500

Well, today marks the first day of my three day weekend, and the near official end of my holiday season. Thus far my plan to sleep late has only been slightly thwarted… a good sign! That would mean I am tacked up for fooding next!

Day #3: Home Town Location and Facts

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:09:46 -0500

Well… as much as it pains me to finally correct the misconception that I am not “of this world”, I am afraid that there is very little that I can do to prevent that and still satisfy my Day 3 post. My place of origin is a town called Lapeer, in the awkward state of Michigan. Compared to most of the places that I have lived since my first 17 years of worldly existence, Lapeer is a very small town, however, compared to the places around Lapeer, it is actually a mid-sized town. Lapeer is the county seat for Lapeer County and obviously also the provider of the name. It was originally a French outpost, which despite the anglisizing of the spelling, still lingers in the pronunciation. Truthfully, Lapeer isn’t very dissimilar to most of the other small towns that surround Flint, Michigan, in that a great deal of what passed for the “Hey Day” for it was during the height of the Factory Boom in the auto industry that started roughly in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. And Like most of the towns around Lapeer, there is an odd mixture of the suburban and the rural. Unfortunately, both farming and the factories around the area fell into a slump in the late 1960’s and Lapeer, as with most of the others, went from up and coming to trying to get by. Slowly it has been picking up steam, and starting to generate an economy of it’s own. It will never be Manhattan, but it will always be home!

Day #2 How did I get my name???

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:02:12 -0500

Long ago… on a planet far, far away called New Jersey. I worked at a pizzeria named Arturo’s Bricks, in Montclair. I worked horrendously long hours, and my roommate at the time Bart, who is an incredible character would call up for me and ask for “Paul, Paul, the pizzamonkey” and the name just stuck!

The 10 “Facts” that I need to include with this...

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:11:34 -0500

The 10 “Facts” that I need to include with this picture…

1. I have personal preference for Apple computers. My mother signed me up for around 10 apple computer classes when I was but a wee lad, which ended up leading to me to become a very Anti-technology person. Unfortunately, it was inescapable so here I am.

2. I was born and raised in a town just about 6 miles down the road from the “Rabbits: for Pets or Meat” lady, in Michael Moore’s Roger and Me.

3. I have lived in Chicago, just outside Boston, just outside New York City, and now just Outside of Atlanta.

4. I am very artistically inclined, at one point I was going to the School of Visual Arts in NYC. I have always wanted to do my own comic books, at one point I had 3 issues nearly completed.

5. My favorite beverage is Fountain Coke from McDonald’s.

6. I have owned a number of musical instruments in my life. I have owned an accordian, a banjo, an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, an electric bass, bongos, a djembe, a keyboard, and a harmonica. None of which I can play with any reliable consistency, though I put together a MEAN playlist!

7. I am a closet linguist, one of my current projects is to re-teach myself English from an Historical vantage… starting with the barbarian languages, into Anglo-Saxon, into Old English, Middle English, then a dialectic variation of modern English.

8. I was on the Chess team in High School. (Shocker, I know!)

9. My first car was a 1978 dodge Dart, it ran from around 9 miles after purchase before all six pistons shot through the hood. I will never use that as the “reset your password question”.

10. My father named me Paul, because he hated nicknames, and wanted me to have a name that couldn’t be easily broken down… he didn’t really get his wish, it is yet a further way that I was able to effortlessly disappoint him.

Awake, you have come too soon!

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:12:06 -0500

Awake, you have come too soon!

I am now sufficiently Potters enough to return to the Internet

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:01:36 -0500

I am now sufficiently Potters enough to return to the Internet

iPhone Review: Week 2

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:10:28 -0400

So I am now on the second/third week of ownership of the iPhone 4. I have now started to find other people with them, which much like smoking and baseball (not that I ever ACTUALLY talk about baseball voluntarily, but just sayin’) they seem to be great conversation openers. Of the almost mandatory opinion poll of the people similarly equiped that I have encountered, I have yet to find that tell me that they are anything less than happy with both the device itself AND the service. The usual reply has been that no can tell what all the hype is about. Again with my previous essay, I have been very sedentary in the span of time since I have gotten my upgrade so I am not sure if I am just reflecting the health of the Atlanta market for AT&T, and the second that I go out roving I am going to find that it drops out all over, however to date my service has vastly improved over both of my Nokias, and even that of my former fiances 3GS. (No, I am not just hanging up on her, despite all the advice and implications to the contrary.)

But week 2/3 has found me exploring more into the world of what is possible with the 4, as well as all the features that are just general to the iPhone that I am still learning. I have been conducting a series of experiments with the battery life to see what it is within the peripherals that is eating up all of my time… I might add that I have also GREATLY increased the amount that I am using the phone over the last week. (I somehow managed to corrupt the OS on my “work” phone, and luckily was able to work out how to make my iPhone do a little over 2/3rds of the proprietary inhouse functions, I still haven’t found a trick to get it to do a good job with server emulation, though I am sure that this is more because my msn/mac/ip isn’t registered within the host’s access lists and is there for given the finger and I get the wonderful… “SERVER not found” error, than a problem with the phone’s OS itself. It is the same thing that I get when I try doing the same functions through my laptop.) But I have noticed that even with the improvement that I have seen in the battery, the fact that I have moved from “Dude, why are you on your phone all the time???” to “How many things are you doing at the same time on that phone???”

The one thing that I do have to report is that the phone does seem to be remarkably fast. Now comparing it with another phone/palmtop doing the same functions, I am remarking how much faster things are processed, how much faster the net loads on a 3G (and truthfully even the EDGE service seemed faster for the spots that I was out of coverage), plus the ability to toggle back and forth between two screens instead of needing to close one out and then open up the new one, then reclosing the page and reopening the old one. Come to think of it I hope that “they” take their time fixing my work phone… I am not sure that I am going to be able to take the slowness now that I know that it is there.

Some other notes that I have been making… I haven’t actually used the interfaces, but so far it seems that books seem cheaper on Kindle than through the iTunes/iBooks app… it seems that the Kindle prices are based on the paperback amount where the others are based on hardcover….

I met a couple of people that were using the bumpers instead of a variation of the bullet-proof case that I have and they seem to work just as well… I am still leary of my propensity for destruction and really really don’t want to kill my kewl new phone. Otherwise, this is the report so far… more to come!

I think that I might be in Love with my iPod… there, I said it.

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:12:34 -0400

I think that I might be in Love with my iPod… there, I said it.

Day 7... iPhone review

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:11:19 -0400

I have now had my iPhone 4 for a solid week, and as promised here is my first week review. Though, as I mentioned with my earlier review, I still a bit of noob when it comes to the true “Smart phone” category, my Nokias were pretty bright, but on retrospect, especially after checking out most of the other phones one the market that my friends have been using, I now realize that they aren’t really candidates for the smart qualification. Don’t get me wrong, I loved them, they were interactive to a good degree, they had a ton of features, and they were web capable (in as much as any phone is), but they aren’t even in the same league and the new iPhone. Though I am still working tweeking things so that I am going to be able to seamlessly get to things and not have to scroll around for them, courtesy of the wonderful new folders idea from iOS4, I have to admit that I am still in love with it. It has all the wonderful benefits of Mac OS that I find so endearing, mostly the interactivity of all the onboard programs, needing to only put in a phone number/email/person once and not needing to worry about adding to multiple apps, that I might want to use it. I can see now why all of my friends that have them have been addicted to their iPhones, and with the latest version the graphics are prettier than ever and make it just that much harder to put down.

I have not found that the phone is dropping on me at all, I am not sure that is because of the Atlanta Market being newer for AT&T service (or anything else for that matter) and because of that the newer towers are able to hold the calls better than those that are in the older markets. Sadly, I haven’t travelled with it too much yet outside of about an hour outside the perimeter, so when that day comes I may need to amend this review. But for the moment, I am delighted and very very happy that I don’t really pay that much attention to the TV. I just got the app for the free case from Apple program, which you just download straight from the App Store, and despite the 3 to 6 week wait for the case (which I really don’t need since I very wisely opted to have my new toy bulletproofed with a Ballistic version of an Otterbox at the time of purchase) I am very pleased with the Apple response to the hysteria. In fact, the only real thing that I can see as a problem is the battery life. I have noted that the time has been increasing over the last week and if the trend continues, it will soon get to place where I am not going to be able to notice as long as I keep up on the charging as I have had to do with any of my other phones.

Right now I charge the phone over night, and I am usually able to make it until about 3pm to 4pm before I start thinking about looking for my charger, panicking about making it through the rest of the night without my phone. This may also be the result of the fact that I enabled to the percentage meter on the display, and now that I have a numeric gauge as to where it is that the battery life is, it is probably contributing greatly to my natural insecurity. I am also an abnormally high end user, so for me I would probably need to hook the poor thing up at a car battery in order to make it through the day without a charge of some sort. I have been told that the secret to maximizing your battery time is by minimizing the amount of running background apps that you have going while it is sitting in standby. Also things like the “Location Services”, “Bluetooth”, and the Wifi Search functions all constantly run and take a bite out the mileage that you get out of the charge so if these are things that you aren’t likely to be using on a regular basis, it may benefit you to switch them off when you aren’t likely to need them.

The major fears that I had about being unhappy because the bluetooth was locked down, seems to have been largely in vain. Though, I do miss just being able to click send and magically my work photos appear on the desktop of my powerbook, I am not missing it nearly as much as I thought that I would and so there by am fine living without it. Also the fact that everything synchs every time that I connect through iTunes, I don’t have to mess with iSync which I have always found to be a bit of a RAMhog, and kind of clumsy… but still a means to an end I suppose.

On a comparative note, I was able to play with a Droid Incredible last night as well, and though I didn’t really play with it for all that long, I did notice that the Droid was faster than my iPhone, but I did find that the interface was a little difficult to navigate, but that may have been my natural disorientation to non-Mac base. I didn’t really do a side by side, which I was secretly hoping to get away with, but my friend’s Incredible announced a phone call, and it ended the experiment.

Otherwise, I am going to have to say that I have had an extremely positive experience in my upgrade and that though I am not usually one to gush Mac-Fanboy, I would have to say it DEFINITELY the best “happy birthday me” gift that I have been given in recent memory. I am very glad that I have the 32gb version, as I also tend to use all the features of the phone, so I have movies, books, and a good 14gb’s of music on it. I would shutter to think of what I would have to give up in order to make it work under a 12gb or 13gb window. I would have to say that as of the end of the week… I recommend it, especially for gadgety people.

Back again, back again, Jiggity-jig...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:44:04 -0400

My readership is low enough, and my twitter and facebook entries frequent enough I am fairly certain that no one noticed that I took off a few days from Bloggville. This is mostly because I have been trying to mentally prepare myself for my little avalanche of life changes that are all coming my way.

What has happened, what has happened??? Well, here are the things that I am going to be doing over the next week, to kind of make up for my absence (since I am not going to tell you now that would ruin the surprise).

As well as the usual, nuts and bolts of my life things that I write about all day long anyway, I am going to get out my first piece of fiction. I am going to give you the Week 1, or Day 7, in the burgeoning relationship between me and my new iPhone 4.

I was thinking of a couple of movie reviews. We shall see. I am feeling ambitious…

SO... I have now had an iPhone 4 for 3 days...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:26:14 -0400

and I thought that I should write a quickie review… at least of my early impressions of it so that way… later on I can look back and say… I can remember when I felt that way… it was so wonderful…

I nearly have the thing set up to my liking. The first problem with my writing this review is that I am actually making a big leap in the smart phone world, my previous smart phone was the Nokia e71x, that I bought as a replacement/upgrade for my e62, a phone that I was very much in love with. My only real complaint about my e62 is that I had had it for what felt like an eternity, but in reality I actually had three of them (I kept getting the notorious white screen of death from the fact that it didn’t really purge any of its internal system cookies and would eventually forget how to startup. AT&T kept sending me replacements, so I kept taking them.) So when I got my e71x my expectations were high. On the surface it appeared to have all the positive qualities that I loved about my e62, but with the added features of a much advanced processor, more memory, more system ram, a 3g transceiver, AND the addition of a camera. Well, shortly after getting my new toy I found that it had many tragic failings that made it fall short of my expectations. I was indeed very sad, but in the end, it still DID function at about 80% of what I wanted. The sad fact is that I am one of those guys. I don’t just need a phone to make phone calls with, I want one that will give networkable internet to my laptop via bluetooth, the ability to process flash AND video AND still have enough leftover for me to bombard everyone in my address book with texts at an alarming rate. Sadly,l the image that I have of myself is that fat competition eater that wanders into an all you can eat buffet, I get more out of AT&T than really what I end up paying (that isn’t to say that I feel they should charge me more, I pay them well.) it is just that I picture AT&T sighing with relief when my battery finally gives up for the day. But now after 2+ years of making do with my e71x, I thought to myself, “Why Not???”

The other main obstacle to my ownership of an iPhone is in truth, I respond very poorly to peer pressure. I still have yet to listen to a full Radiohead album, or watch Titanic all the way through, simply because I was told by… well…. everybody! That it was a must and that I absolutely had to, to be a fully functioning adult, and well liked in society. So, when the iPhone came on to the scene everyone looked at me, with expectations that I would be in the line that wrapped around the mall at the Apple store’s entrance waiting. I am an Applephile and have been since OS 7. At one point I had the benchmarks of the last 4 generations of powerbooks. I really love Apple products. HOWEVER, I am not an Apple Zealot, when the iPad was introduced, my opinion was again sought out. I replied,” I don’t trust first run products”. And I still stand by that. The first Generation iPhones were good, but were hugely topped 6 months later when Gen 2 came out with extended battery life, working apps, better reception, a MUCH faster processor, AND it was cheaper than the original. I still see those original iPhones on eBay or Craigslist, and they are usually billed as collector’s items and marked with Antique prices, I usually just shake my head and say, “Dude, what are you thinking?”

Here it is, Day 3, and this is what I have to report. My first move was to pick up the most heavy duty case for him that I could get my hands on, despite Mr. Job’s kind offer of waiting for bumpers or a free case, I am not nice to my phones, and I was not taking chances with this one. I have only really had reception trouble prior to doing “The Update” I haven’t noticed any particularly big drops in service, even compared with my e71x, that is supposed to be a remarkable phone for reception. Cell service is Cell service, even your $12,000 government issued Satellite phone is going to have reception problems at some point or another. I am not a wall street mogul, I don’t have to help someone defuse a bomb, or transplant a human heart over the phone, I will call you back in a couple of minutes. Now, I have noted that the battery life is a little limited, I am a heavy user, I text, facebook, ebay, and talk on the phone all day. It seems like I would be a little more interesting with the amount that I just spew out on to the world, but alas. I noticed that the battery is starting to look a little empty right around 3 o’clock. Now I have only had the thing for a small amount of time, the battery may need to condition and I may see more battery life later on once it has built up a routine.

Interactivity-wise, I LOVE my iPhone 4. I plugged it into my Last Gen Powerbook, and was able to get 90% of my stuff on there while I was in the parking lot of the mall. All my email, all the bookmarks from Safari, contacts, calendars, music, movies, the whole shebang. I did have to go through and tell it to do the photos, but really not even a deal. I thought that I would miss the fully functioning bluetooth on my Nokia, but so far that hasn’t been the case. I haven’t experimented to see if the Pismo (Powerbook Pismo… G3 500mhz processor circa 2000) is going to be able to communicate with it, but if it doesn’t, again that isn’t a big deal, just more of a thought that anything. The speakphone for the iPod function is decent, about on par with the e72x, but not quite as good as the e62, it was a really great phone.

The screen and look of it are both sharp, very crisp and colorful images, even in full sunlight. The refresh rate is very good, it is a pleasure to watch movies/tv shows on. It even seems to improve the look of youtube.

So far I would have to say that I have enjoyed the phone immensely and I am very excited for what the possibilities are. I have just begun to get into the world of app’s, and I look forward to seeing what it is out there.

That is really all for now…

Good Night…. and Good Luck!

Nostalgia...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:37:08 -0400

I am just sitting here staring at my old passport, for those of you that know it, I think that we can all agree that the picture that the State Dept. has probably filling walls of statistics about the banal minutia of my daily grind, is not going to be missed when I finally do get around to updating it. To quote the great Irma Bombeck, “When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.” The photo which is almost a paradigm for unflattering, while at the same time not being unusable, was taken in haste as I was headed at nearly a dead run down to the “Emergency Passport Office” in the bowels of Manhattan. It was early, I was being further tortured by the fact that I was across the street from my usual coffee spot (which means I HADN’T gone there yet.), and as usual I was running tremendously late. A couple of small bits of trivia to complete the mental picture are the facts that: A) I was exhausted and stressed from the previous year of work to the point that most people were amazed that I was even speaking in full sentences. B) I don’t photograph well under the best of circumstances, professional photographer, kindly hair and makeup lady, gifted lighting technician, at the very best I look awkward and just a little on the ill side. Now take into account that for this particular photo I was standing in a bodega that also just happens to have instant passport photos as well as international calling cards, nearly completely untouched grocery items, and an almost constant rotation of canned beer and swisher sweet’s cigars.

I ran in, stood under the harsh fluorescent lights, tried to look like I wasn’t about to run out the door and try hailing the first passing cab, waited for the clerk/stockboy/photographer/proprietor to line up and snap the photo, practically threw an exorbitant amount of money (even by Manhattan standards which is really saying something) at him, waited as the photos slowly came out of his little video prineter, and then ran gracelessly out the door to ACTUALLY hail the first four cabs that I saw.

Once I was safely on board, I ran through my mental checklist. This I am fairly certain is something that everyone that actually does things other than go to the Empire State Building, Madame Tousseau’s, or the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. do on a regular basis while we are going through the lives that other people THINK are so glamourous. Little do we consider that this is actually too late, you are in the cab and you have just started an investment, it means that if you DID forget something, that you were now atleast $7-$10 in the hole by the time that you realized it. Luckily for me, I had all of the 50 things that I was going to be required to dole out in turn once I got to the Office in question. I had actually gone a little more enthusiastic than the clerk probably desired, more than likely causing myself to appear suspicion worthy. In total I had with me:

1) a series of DREADFUL pictures of myself.

2) the proper “I need a passport form” already filled out.

3) a copy of my birth certificate (I actually had 2 of them just in case.)

4) my NJ driver’s license

5) a copy of my Lease for the Apartment (just incase they wanted current address proof)

6) the copy of my Vaccination report for Thailand/Cambodia

7) my expired Michigan driver’s license (I don’t know all kinds of things were starting to make sense to me at that point)

8) my Social Security Card

9) my last paycheck stub

10) a copy of the receipt for the Airline tickets that we hadn’t gotten yet.

Okay, so maybe my list is only ten things long, but for me that is a real accomplishment, as anyone that has handed me a phone number written on a small piece of paper, and then received a pleading and apologistic phone call weeks later after having weaseled their phone number out of some other source will attest. There are parts of me that are organized to the point of being nearly Anal retentive, and then there are the natural impulses that I tend follow, the result of which generally leave an aftermath akin to a hurricane through a poor neighborhood. My intentions are almost always good, but I am NOT a neat person by custom.

I arrived at the office building who’s address I had scrawled on the back of one of the other vital items (I think that it was the bottom page of my lease come to think of it.), forked over a wad of cash to the driver, and headed inside. I emptied my pockets into the small fry basket offered by the security guard, whom then casually ushered me through the metal detector, and handed me back all my change and other pocket items. I walked over to the elevator bank pressed the up arrow and stood, rocking back and forth like I was going to wet my pants. Out of the corner of my eye I could see that the guard had settled back into his chair and was starting to do that nodding because I can’t stay awake thing. One of the arrows signaled the arrival of the elevator with a harsh and more than surprising, “BING!”. I reoriented myself in the direction of the illuminated arrow and stood back as a large group of people all got off.

I got on pressed the appropriate number and settled back. When the doors reopened I was greeted by a large, reasonably lit room with walls the color of everything in the Navy, that weird, not quite blue exactly, not quite grey exactly color. There were several “tellers” set up behind glass, and a whole waiting room of unhappy looking people. I located an empty plastic chair and settled in. As I sat there I got to thinking about the greatness of what I was doing. Oh, I know that it isn’t GREAT, in the Nelson Mandela, Paul Simon, Pyramids, kind of way. But great for me personally. I had always seen myself as an adventurer, and this was my first step to opening my own horizons, quite literally to the world. I began to ponder how many stamps I would have 10 years from then, how many exciting places that I was going to make it to. I fantasized about taking weekend trips of Paris, Mexico, or Japan for a while. It was a turning point that meant that I was finally entering the adult world, like when you get your driver’s license, or when you safely order a cocktail at a family function. I was giddy. My number came up and I hustled over to the open window, where a kind but overworked young gentleman informed me that I was giving him too much information, that “these” were all that he needed, that it would be just a few days and I would be able to come back by and get my passport.

Now it is over 10 years later. I am happy to report that I have stamps for New Zealand, Thailand, Fiji, Canada, and Japan. I am not quite Indiana Jones. I never got around to jet setting around the globe on weekend trips. But I am proud of those stamps that I have. They are all amazing memories that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It is sadly time for me to turn in my expired passport, and this time I am afraid that I am going to have to wait the standard amount of time to get the new one. I now live in Atlanta, and I don’t see myself adding any new stamps in the immediate future (though you never know with me, and I would rather be prepared than have to try and incorporate a last minute flight into the mix of all the adventure of getting a last minute passport again.) I will miss my stamps. I recommend to anyone to get a few stamps of their own, even if it is just to go to Canada for the weekend.

I think that this just says it all!

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:13:24 -0400

I think that this just says it all!

Okay, so the game plan for today WAS to dazzle all of you with a piece dazzling prose that I had...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:08:36 -0400

Okay, so the game plan for today WAS to dazzle all of you with a piece dazzling prose that I had written. I suppose that was a wee bit optimistic of me. I apologize in advance that I am doing an entry that is sadly normal… I did play with the idea that I would just snag one of the several things that I have sitting here on my desktop, and you lot wouldn’t be any the wiser, however, I am not going to do that. (At least not yet, catch me next week and I am sure that my will may be a little more pliable.)

So, I am just going to drivel on the way that I normally due. Sadly, my excuse is indeed pretty lame. I was actually trying to explain to a close relation, that unfortunately the world isn’t really a fair place. and that most people need reasons for what they do. That’s my excuse and I am sticking to it. Right now I am trying to give the new Syfy channel show, Haven, a chance to grow on me… it is hard not to scratch it off.

I think that I am going to try a little experiment… if you will indulge me… of course...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:40:00 -0400

I think that I am going to try a little experiment… if you will indulge me… of course you will… you have no choice! *insert sinister laugh track* I think that I would like to make fridays “Fiction Fridays”, in an attempt to not OD anyone on the drivel that I normally pump out at a volume that would even get the BP executives to stop counting their money long enough to stop the flow… just kidding… nothing could do that. I am going to write some fiction and put it up on Fridays… we shall see how that works for me…

honey... where's the tiger balm???

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:19:13 -0400

Just a quick FYI, for all those that are desperately concerned about the disturbing nature of my posture while I am sitting here and banging on the keys: I have just found what I believe to be the “Sheldon’s Spot” for typing at great length, I am no longer putting my legs to sleep, it is MUCH easier for me to type in this position and it has the added advantage of making me appear to be relaxed and vaguely cool, where as the old position was more akin to a neanderthal trying to make a fire in a laptop by flailing his fingers at it. I knew that you would all be greatly relieved, so I thought that a prompt update would be prudent.

For those that are unfamiliar with what my reference to “Sheldon’s Spot” means the shame you feel for this failing is natural and thankfully there is a cure that you can administer in the privacy of your own home… go out and rent the first 3 seasons of “The Big Bang Theory” and watch them as completely as you can. When you have done this… you’re welcome.

further proof that New Zealand is nearly impossible to...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:03:12 -0400

further proof that New Zealand is nearly impossible to photograph badly.

My current read...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:42:52 -0400

For those that like to keep track of the things that I am reading (for some reason this seems to be nearly as great a source of amusement as the enduring question of “My God what is that that is coming out of your iPod?!?!?!?”). I am currently engrossed in the book of essays by Sloane Crosley, titled “I was told there’d be cake”. Though I am not usually one for giving my reviews until I have finished, I will have to admit that I am feeling a bit unusual so I will give it a shot.

The essays in this book are EXTREMELY entertaining, engrossing and more than a little funny. Though I would have to admit that there are a great deal of things that I am not sure if I am laughing at because of their relevance to society as a whole or if it is because I was once a fledgling in New York City myself and have had similar experiences to the ones that she is so giftedly illustrating. I am just over the half way point and I am must say that it is going to be going on my “steal this book list”. I look forward to being a little more detailed when the book and I have finished our affair, so until that point…

this is my desktop!

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:47 -0400

this is my desktop!

And Now I BLOG!!!!

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:15:31 -0400

Hello, internet world!!!!

Sadly, I haven’t put a great deal of thought into what it is that I would put as my first blog. I suppose that really a blog isn’t about what it is that you have premeditated though I am sure that my editing staff would GREATLY appreciate a little more thought and effort, and maybe even premeditation in what I write. But then again… That really wouldn’t be me would it. The truth to be told, I actually have a great deal of premeditated writing that I should probably be putting here, things that I would probably actually want people to read, and not just my usual mental drooling that seems to be all that I putting out. But the one thing that I felt was of paramount importance was that I didn’t turn this into some kinda of RAVING manifesto. I think that I should really just use this to keep everyone up to date with the ramblings through my strange head, I know that it bothers some people when they feel that I am spending too much time in my own head all by myself. So here we are a solution that doesn’t involve listening to me driveling on for hours. Go Me!