Patrick Says

I very nearly gave this up. Blogging, that is.

I’d had a particularly bad night the other night and I was in the mood to destroy something. It’s what I do. I destroy my own things. Why would I do this? I suppose it’s a lot of things. Part of it is that I’m tired of pretending that everything is hunky dory all the time. That I’m dealing well with this life I lead. I didn’t want to have to put a fake-ass happy face on and write posts about Katy Perry or dick jokes.

Since that time, I’ve reconsidered. Posts may be infrequent here for a bit. Or they just may be dark.

I’m not sure how it’s going to go. Just between you and me, I considered taking on a pseudonym and creating a blog out there somewhere to just tell it like I feel it, but with my luck, someone would stumble onto it and figure out it’s me. Maybe I still will…

We’re up again after the strike. Looks like we beat SOPA and PIPA back. For now. They will be back. You can bank on that.

Just an FYI that this site will be particiapting in the SOPA Strike tomorrow (if I installed the plugin correctly). This site will be down to protest SOPA and PIPA, the government’s over-reaching and censoring of the Internet. Call your Congress peeps and urge them to oppose these pieces of garbage legislation.

Look, I’m not saying my kids aren’t great. But these three-day weekends sometimes blur the line between work and time off. Sure, there was some fun with the building of the Lego and the swinging of the Wii remote controller, but sometimes you just need to go to work and get some quality time with the stapler. Just saying.

In other news, the city of Arnold sent The Wife a late notice on a red light camera ticket that was dismissed back in 2006. A Facebook friend of ours also got a notice on a dismissed ticket. I’m hypothesizing one of two scenarios occurred:

1. The city of Arnold is so desperate for revenue that they are sending out letters to anyone and everyone in the hopes that the person will pay the ticket. Too bad for them I have a family-friend attorney who got the initial ticket dismissed in the first place.
2. Someone screwed up and ran the wrong query in the database resulting in an avalanche of notices that should never have went out. This person will probably be assigned phone duty on Tuesday to answer what will certainly be a boatload of irate callers.

I’m leaning toward #2. Seems more plausible.

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were talking with this woman. I tuned in late, so I didn’t really have the full story. But she was talking about this pet chicken she had and how she had to take it to the vet because it was sick. Ultimately, they were not able to save it and she had it cremated.

And I’m thinking, ‘wow, I’ll bet the smell of that chicken being cremated was delightful.’ I’m getting hungry just typing about it. Mmmmm…I do loved blackened chicken.

Sorry about your pet.