There is one thing you have to know about me if you plan on frequenting my blog, which I am happy to see that you are doing. Friends, family and strangers alike are welcome here. I just ask that you wipe your feet because we just had the floors done. Oh, yes, the one thing you need to know about me is that I am, now what was that technical tern the special doctors used….Right! GOOFY! I’m goofy! In no way should you take me too seriously. People who have taken me too seriously have wound up with a weird perception of what reality is. My sky truly is not blue! There are shades of taupe and some spatterings of puce. In other words, there’s no rhyme or reason to any of this other than the order it comes out of my itchy fingers.

And I was in no way implying that you weren’t being family friendly, but once again just stating random obvious facts. Some cows are black and white! There I go doing it again. I will also run off on tangents that are only slightly linked to what I’ve previously said. The bulls in the movie Barnyard frightened me because they all had udders. See? Only slightly linked because I made reference to a cow a couple of sentences ago. Please don’t think I’m offended…it’s not like you’re my next door neighbor or landlord, right? Right?

And “anonymous post” post away! Any comments I receive, good or bad, lets me know that people are reading. That’s some serious ego stroking, dontchaknow? And to know that I’ve actually touched on a subject that others care about makes me see that everything I write isn’t complete drivel but only part drivel-part real world commentary. Hah! That last sentence WAS complete drivel!

I am SO looking forward to taking Kristen to see Eragon. She managed to read the book while I did not. I’m still immersed in Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things, and I just read a short story entitled The Problem With Susan. It was Neil’d fictional take on what happened to Susan from the Narnia series, and I did not like it. I’ve liked most of the short stories in the book so far, and I could see what he was doing. He actually had the characters make mention of previous versions of children’s stories such as the Grimm tales and how they were originally made for adults with all the macabre details left in that children shouldn’t (in my opinion) read or hear about. However, CS Lewis’ stories were, I believe, written for children in the first place, and Neil did a sort of reverse engineering of the process and made an adult story with regards to Susan. I didn’t like the effect it had on me. However, that was probably his intent, so since he was able to accomplish what he set out to do, “Bravo!” He’s still tops on my reader’s list.

Oh, yes! Kristen and Eragon! It starts this Friday, and you can see the trailer for it here. I wish I had a chance to read the book first seeing as I’ve heard a lot about how the author started writing it at a young age. He came out with a sequel that Kristen also read. These books are about a foot and a half thick, and Kristen put it away in about a week or two each. She loves reading, and it warms my heart to know that.

I’ve kind of taken a step back from writing too much for two reasons. First, after sitting idle at my job for almost 6 months, I’ve finally been given work to do. In fact, I’ve been given lots of work to do. I could literally sleep at the office if I wanted to…I don’t, mind you, because my bed is softer than my desk chair. The second reason is that I’m hard at work on Take It Like A Husband. That takes a little bit of time, dontchaknow?

And with that I leave you for now. I’ll show you a picture of me cleaning gutters at night, however. That’s an interesting story in itself, and I’d print it here if I didn’t think lawyers would get involved. Suffice to say it’s another one of those adventurous speed bumps I’ve mentioned previously. I’ll tell the story to anyone who wants to hear it though! It’s a doozy!