Abort / Retry / Ignore

I’m posting! I still have nothing to say. Why do I have a blog, anyway? We’re enjoying the new house and the new baby, and we look forward to a big tax return so we can do some work to the place. Not that it needs it; it’s mostly optional upgrades. Like lights and maybe finishing the basement. And more fence. I haven’t decided whether we want a tree or not. I love trees, and I want a big oak in the middle of the back yard, but I also hate raking leaves.

Studying Japanese is going well, but it’s not coming as easily as I’d like. If I had more time to dedicate to it, it’d probably be a lot easier. Alas, I am a wage slave. Which means I waste most of my life (and am too tired to do anything with the rest) with relatively little to show for it.

I do have a secret project in the works that might ease some of the load, but it also might just be a complete waste of time. We’ll see.

We just had a new baby girl this morning at 4:37am.

Now I feel like I’m neglecting my blog in favor of twitter, but this feeling of guilt has actually made me come back here more regularly than I was before. I mean, two whole posts in August?! That’s unheard of.

So here’s some news: We bought a house. Because we have another kid on the way and we needed another bedroom. The kid is due in ten days! I worry about being able to make the mortgage, but I think we can manage. We won’t have much in the way of luxury items anymore (I spend way too much on books, anyway—the dangers of being hooked on the stuff you deal). But at the same time: Yard! Two bathrooms! No neighbors! I can play loud music! I can have pets!

The only thing I’ll miss about our apartment is that the neighbors always seem to be cooking something that smells awesome when you first walk into the building. Makes you wanna go knocking on doors to find out who it is and then ask for some.

Anyone willing to make the trip is invited to the housewarming. It’ll be Halloween weekend, so I’m thinking of having the first-ever costume-housewarming. And if it’s not the first ever, I don’t care. If I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me!

Yeah, um… so I’m having fun with Twitter. It’s nice to send inane crap from my phone. I know nobody wants to read it, but I still send it. And it’s a lot less effort than thinking up coherent, intelligent blog posts. (I know, most of my blog posts are borderline, anyway.) I don’t think I’ve posted about what I’m eating, yet, though. Perhaps I should. Anyway, yeah. Hmmm.

Okay, so I caved. I now have a Twitter thingy. I tweet things. I’m a twit.

I really don’t have anything to say, but I don’t want to let my bloggish stagnate. I know there are one or two people that actually read it, so they can now pretend to be interested in the goings-on of my life. Hooray you.

I enjoy things.

I’m the greatest, smartest, most attractive man alive. If only you knew. All the guys want to be me, and all the ladies want to be with me. I make millions on the black market, selling plutonium I grow myself. And with that money, I’ve purchased several solid gold cars, and dated several solid gold supermodels. I get my mail with a helicopter, and I do the dishes by burning them and buying a new set. I have servants for everything, including two whose jobs are to kiss each of my butt-cheeks all day long. Except when I’m sitting, then they just do the grapes and palm-frond thing. I also own everything, but I lease land out to local groups who call themselves “governments”. They run the regions in exchange for free rent, but they answer to me. They’re like expensive landlords.

Oh, and…

April Fool’s! I don’t really have servants who kiss my butt. But the rest is all true.

I know some people like to know what books people are reading or whatever. Those people are weird. But anyway, I have this cool library software, that exports crap. So, here’s my list of crap. I don’t have everything I own in there yet (not even close), but I have a lot of the new stuff. It’s pretty fun adding things. And it tracks to whom items are lent, which is a nice feature. So yeah, that’s a bunch of my crap. Enjoy learning about my tastes. Or at least, my recent tastes. And yes, this is a token post because I missed February.

I just updated the Writings area of my site. It’s pretty. Suggestions and ideas are welcome. I’m reworking and reposting the chapters of each story, editing as I go—for the final time. These are going to be the final version of each of these stories. I’m going to try to get a chapter per month uploaded. I also have at least one surprise in store, but I’m not saying when, because it’s turning out harder than I thought so it could take a long time. But it’ll be awesome. I may also be sending Book I of TVX sent to a publisher or agent soon(ish), which means it may be a bad idea to upload chapters. I’ll just leave that one as is for now, but I’ll get the next four Gathered Flowers chapters up. Who knows what else.

And for anyone who doesn’t know (everyone who reads this blog already knows, so thats nobody), I have the internet at home now. Finally. And a real job, so I can pay for said internet. Which hopefully means I can blog more. Now I can slap every inane thought I have onto the internet like everyone else. So yeah. My new job takes up a lot more time than pizza delivery ever did, so even though I have internet, I have much less time to waste upon it. So it’ll be hard to blog and write and all the other crap I used to do. I suppose it’s worth it, though. Having money is nice. Now if only I could figure out how to not spend it all…

Recently I bought a bag from thinkgeek.com and when it arrived, it had a minor quality control issue.

So I sent them a little message:

The coolest bag ever. I only have two small quality control comments:

Firstly, I’m sure it’s just the nature of the fabric, but I’ve never picked so many loose threads from a new product. I mean, this is to be expected from any new fabric product, but I probably could’ve knitted another bag out of the scraps of thread. Secondly, and this one is slightly more … bothersome. When the bag arrived, the zipper for the rearmost compartment was actually sewn into the nearby seam. I debated sending it back, but I didn’t want to wait even longer to have my bag back. So I just cut it free with some delicate pocketknife work and re-sewed it. I’m sure the zipper was sewn on before the final seams were sewn, and that the zipper just landed in a very inopportune place, but you may want to have the appropriate people keep an eye on that. Otherwise, this is the best, most durable, most spacious bag I’ve ever had.

I was really just trying to let them know. But then, I got this response:

Hey, Camaron -

Thanks for the feedback. To show how much we love you and want you to have a non-defective bag, we’re shipping you another Bag of Holding (whether you want it or not).

No, really, another sweet bag. All yours. I mean sure you COULD give it away as a gift this holiday, but then you wouldn’t have two. It’ll ship on order 11aac55ee and you should receive it sometime next week. Enjoy!

Thanks,
-Rich

My jaw hit the floor. I mean, it’s an awesome bag. It’s a fifty-dollar bag. And they’re sending me another one for free?! Wow. That’s amazing customer service. The second one just arrived today (all zippers are swinging free), and I have yet to decide what to do with it. Maybe I will keep it, after all. Fill one with work supplies and one with DnD supplies. A business bag and a pleasure bag. Wait, that sounded dirty. You know what I mean, though.

Although, I have considered giving it as a gift, but I can’t decide to whom I would give it.

I previously shopped thinkgeek.com for a nifty titanium spork, but after this experience, I think I’ll be shopping there more frequently. Especially for nerdy shirts.