… For the darnedest of reasons.

It’s been a couple of weeks since anyone has seen me here, and there are going to be a few more before all is said and done. For the curious, no, I didn’t give up writing, I haven’t been pronounced dead, and I have yet to run off and elope with wolfshine, so no congratulations are yet in order.

Or maybe congratulations are very in order. After all, in less than a month my mother will become Mrs. Mary Johnston. I’m pretty sure the name will suit her better than Morris ever did, and I can be whatever about it, because she’ll still be my mother and I’m not the one who will be changing my name. As for my wolfshine, I’ve yet to ask the question but I have finally paid for the ring. I’ve plans to do the asking after Mom’s wedding, and yes there will be pictures of it - we don’t have it in hand yet because we had it specially made.

Walmart in typical fashion, is typical. Nothing’s come of the hours change yet, but something else has gone somewhere - mainly, our managers. It’s been decided that there were too many managers in not enough of the right places, and now we’re cutting one level of management, while rearranging the departmental structure, meaning in two weeks or so I get a new manager over twice as many departments, that will have to learn some responsibilities he didn’t want while I learn to work around another person I hardly ever see. Woe to us, inventory is only three weeks or so away.

If this were usual, I’d be dead by now. I believe I can say that with confidence because cheap products from China are still cheap. I ran into a round of what should have been excellent bicycles (Schwinns no less) that were not working properly, and we didn’t know because you couldn’t see the problem unless you tried to ride them. Hence in front of a customer I lost all sorts of face and had the most aggravating time of looking like a fool. Couldn’t sell him a bike, couldn’t fix him the bike he wanted us to sell, looked like a fool (or so I figured - I became one shortly after.)

In aggravated exasperation, so pissed at the world I couldn’t stand myself, I did the ultimate male oriented tension buster. I punched a wall. While I was able to go smile at the customer afterward, there were several things I couldn’t do so well for a couple of weeks following. One of which was write, another being type. I can do both again now obviously, but the week after I’d rearranged my knuckles against a steel wall, things turned hot out here. I’ve been mentally limp ever since. Each day I sit to write my nose touches the notebook more than the pen does. Techno is limping along, in the middle of rolling car chases even.

So we’ve been trying to keep getting on with getting things going. Wolfshine and I are putting in our hours at work, making her birthday last week a good weeklong time, and piddling at preparations for all the things we want to be doing in the coming months. The rest of it, we’ve been cruising, napping, or what have you. And there promises to be more of that while we take care of business. Between Walmart’s inventory bru-ha-ha and two week’s vacation coming right after that, chances are pretty good there’ll be a couple more weeks off in my future, if not a couple of months.

Until then, I’ll be along and posting as I can. This DA thing is too permanent for me to set aside forever. Blessings to everyone!

k

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See that picture over there in my webcam space? I didn't draw it! If it's yours, and you want me to take it down, I will gladly do so, with proof of ownership and a polite request. (Signature in your gallery will do.)

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So - I’ll continue to continue - to pretend
My life - will never end
And flowers - never bend
With the rainfall

~ Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall - Simon and Garfunkle ~

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy

"So you want to know the best way to address a dragon do you? Well, keep this at hand. Pencil and paper. You thought I was going to say "wit and wisdom" or such no? But you're wrong. For when dealing with dragons, if you're face to face with one, then you've already left wit and wisdom far behind you." ~ Taleron Kindrake

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