Attack of the brain, umm, eater things

As is inevitable, I have fallen behind in posting. Work stress has hit real life stress and the result isn't pretty. My brain has decided it doesn't want to work properly all the time. Last night, I drove to the wrong cinema. Luckily, it wasn't too far from the proper one and we made it to the film (Coraline, very good) during the previews. I have also been unable to get it together to make a bunch of posts that I want to. Who knew that keeping peoples' spirits up took so much out of a person. But there you are, then.

So, to anyone waiting for me to post proper concert reviews, more food stuff or my backlog of pictures and travel stuff (all two of you), patience please and I'll have some more posts soon. In the meantime, I will console myself following the Panthers 4-0 loss to Chicago by reading Calvin and Hobbes and listening to Scorn.

If it's not one thing...

It's been a rough few weeks. Liz's grandmother has been in bad shape since a week or so before Christmas. Liz has been in Virginia since a week after Thanksgiving, first helping out after her mother's stroke, and more recently assisting her grandmother. I've been home trying to get our apartment into decent shape, broken by occasional travel. Liz's grandmother passed away on Monday, and the funeral was today. Now, she has somewhere between 6 days and two weeks to get her apartment cleared out. I will not be able to help much as I have to be back in Florida on Tuesday. In the meantime, I have managed to lose my cell phone. I think I left it in a restaurant last night, but no one found it there. We've searched the apartment and not found it, so it appears that I will have to replace it, at full price. It's not been the greatest week, but hopefully I'll be able to get out and finish the roll that's been in my camera far too long, and upload the pictures that have been sitting for far too long. There is also one bookshelf left to be assembled. Next week will be busy. This week was busy. It's always something.

Am I a Complete Egomaniac?

In a word, yes. In the words of a man with whom I attended high school, "He's a bit of a bastard." Why do I ask this question, you may well ask. One must have a reason to put one's self out there with a site such as this one. Often the reason is exhibitionism. I don't think I'm an exhibitionist, although I suppose it's possible. Sometimes the reason is boredom. Generally, I don't have much time to be bored. I think it's because I'm an egomaniac. Since my taste in just about everything is better than everyone else's, I feel compelled to share my opinions with the world.

And if the world doesn't care, it's certainly not my problem.