The cable company bury team can’t get to our situation till Wednesday of next week. That means we will be without television, telephone, and internet for a week. So I don’t know if I’ll be able to post on schedule till we get our system back up.

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There’s construction work along our neighborhood street — new houses going up — and our cable line got cut yesterday. So we’re without TV, telephone, and Internet.

We called the cable company yesterday evening, and they sent out a repair man this morning. Turns out the workers who originally ran the cable line through our neighborhood buried the line across the empty lot next to our house. I guess they didn’t make the mental connection: empty lot in a neighborhood = house will eventually be constructed there.

The cable guy explained that he can’t reconnect the severed line, because it still runs across the lot where the house builders are still laying foundation. So he called in a bury team to come out and rerun and bury the line around the new house. But the bury team won’t be out till tonight or tomorrow morning.

So we’re without TV, telephone, and Internet for at least that long. <sigh>

Thank goodness for our cell phones, or we’d be nearly completely cut off from the world. It’s like living in the dark ages.

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We’re back connected to the Internet. That was a long three days without cyberspace. No checking email, no checking or updating this site, no checking FailBlog.org for my funny fix. It feels like waking up from a coma.

But right after I got our network up and running, and started writing this, Cowgrit’s laptop stopped playing nice with the wireless router. So cancel all the happiness I just implied.

I worked on that diabolical appliance for an hour and just couldn’t get it to connect. I think the wireless hardware has died. I’ll have to get another one. Meanwhile, my “loaner” computer will be the only one for all of us.

<sigh>

Can nothing just go smooth for us in this move?

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It didn’t snow in our area, and the roads were clear for moving. Although, it was terribly cold: around 30 degrees all day.

So, now we just have to unpack everything. I may or may not have a post for Monday morning. I don’t know if I’ll have my computer set up in the new house in time. I’m taking it down from my mother’s-in-law house now.

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Holy crap, it’s been six days since I last posted something here. What happened? Well, nothing happened, really. One thing after another just made me keep putting off writing my next post for Friday, and then the weekend was busy, and then I was tired Sunday night, so on and so forth.

I’ve built up so many anecdotes I want to write up that my brain is about to burst. But I’ve been so damn busy and distracted and tired. So, anyway, my regular posting will start back up tomorrow.

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Occasionally some mundane situation sparks wild imaginings. For instance, a few weeks ago, as I was walking through the parking deck of my office building, I heard a loud bang. At the other end of the parking deck was a van and a man who had just slammed the rear door.

There was nothing sinister about the scene, the van, or the man, but my imaginative mind pretty quickly built up an action/thriller scenario. For the fun of imagining, I mulled the idea in my brain for the remainder of my walk through the parking deck. It’s fun to play “what if.”

I’ve played this kind of mental exercise a lot over the years. I think it’s a part of having a very imaginative mind. But usually, the scenario I create based off some random, mundane occurrence gets no more attention than the idle time I have to give it when it happens.

This time, though, I thought I’d write it down to see how it ends up reading as text rather than just as a thought in my head. And this time was also different in that the location of the imagining was handy for going back and taking pictures of the locations and sights. So, I wrote it all down and took photographs.

After writing it, I considered whether to post it to this site. Everything else I post here are anecdotes from my real life, so I wasn’t sure how something completely fictional would go over. Would some take it as true? Would some take it as an attempt to fraud?

I decided I did want to post it here, but I couldn’t do it without some disclaimer or warning. But prefacing it with such would kind of ruin the feel. Then I rewrote it as present tense rather than my normal past tense. I felt this would make it obvious enough to not seem fraudulent while skipping a preface.

I don’t know. It was a fun experiment, but it definitely doesn’t fit with the rest of my posts here.

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Me and the boys had a fun time this weekend, just the three of us (it was Cowgrit’s weekend to work at the hospital). Going to a couple of parks to play, going to the pool to swim, going to a picnic with his Cub Scout Pack, reading comic books, watching cartoons, playing Bionicles, playing Pokémon, so on and so forth.

The building permit for our new house just finished its trip through the red tape last week. It normally takes 3 weeks, but this took 7 weeks — so we’re 4 weeks behind schedule. OMG! We had our initial sit-down talk with the building supervisor this morning. I like him. Actual construction will be starting this week. Yay!

Our Disney World vacation is just two weeks away! Oh god, we need this fun, so much. I’m almost shaking in anticipation.

I really don’t have anything insightful, interesting, or even funny to say today, but I have to post something if just to bump the whole “The Gay Lifestyle” post series down the page. All the ads popping up here are for gay and lesbian cruises or dating sites. Someone coming here for the first time might think this is a gay-blog.

What do y’all think of how I broke that series up over several days, instead of posting it all in one or two longer posts? I didn’t initially intend to have it run five days, but there were some natural breaks in the narrative that let me spread it out for a week’s worth of posts.

Does breaking longer stories up over multiple days make for easier or more difficult reading? Is it helpful or annoying?

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