Every morning I wake up at 6:15 when my alarm goes off. The plan is to hit the snooze button once and be out of bed at 6:30, shower, dress, out the door by 7 so that I can be at work at 7:30 or 8 depending on the traffic. So the problem is that this week that hasn’t been happening. The alarm still goes off at 6:15 but when I hit the snooze button it instantly becomes 7:15 and I look up at the clock and say “Oh crap”. I swear that I don’t remember hitting the button more than once, and at 15 minutes per snooze that’s four times? I definitely support the theory that there is some kind of time displacement field happening in my room. Perhaps I need to get Jordi in there with a tricorder to investigate. Perhaps there is a leak in my warp core, that would explain the weird green spot on my TV.

But I think we may have won the battle with the fruit flies. It’s been like the Hatfields and the McCoys around here for a couple months. We would fight in waves. The flies would build up their numbers slowly and then seem to attack all at once. We would counter with furious slapping. Later we developed more devious weapons (cleaning spray and paper towels) but they were no match for the shear numbers of the fly armies. I envision the older flies telling their eggs how they would someday grow old enough to torment the humans while they were watching TV or using the computer. But like America, we the apartment dwellers eventually developed weapons of mass destruction. With one fell swoop we obliterated the hordes before they could mount another attack. The last fly just surrendered to me in the bathroom, just before I swatted him. VICTORY IS OURS!

On the way into work today I was listening to Elliot in the Morning and he was having people call in about obsessive compulsive disorders and other mental problems. So the weird thing is he had a caller who had to smell everything then the next girl that called in said she had to pick all the zits on her husband’s back. The third caller who’s name was Crystal was bi-polar. The first two were definitely my Crystal all the way, I only think the third symptom was her. But kind of freaky anyway. And btw I think I may be a little compulsive at times also…

I’m really not used to this yet. For those of you that don’t know me very well I’ll explain my situation. I’ve been single since August last year. So that’s about 6 months, no big deal right? I’ve been talking to people my age and it seems like I’m a bit off. This stretch is the longest time I have been single since I was 15. And I think it might be longer than that. When I was 15 I started dating Crystal and dated her until my first senior year of college. After that relationship exploded in my face I set out on my single life. Unfortunately I found love too quickly. At the restaurant I used to work at I saw a beautiful young woman that I fell flat on my face for. I should have waited longer but I didn’t want to. I thought the year with Faith was great… but that was about 6 months ago… which brings me to right now. I really just like to be a boyfriend. I’m good at it. Maybe it’s because of who I was dating but I haven’t even had many friends that were girls, so even that aspect seems strange to me. I’m not good at the whole “when to call, when not to call” situation. I’m trying not to just jump into another long term relationship, but in truth, that is what I want. I was at IKEA today and I saw what I wanted. It wasn’t a new bed or dresser it was the cute couples shopping together. Maybe they were shopping for their first apartment or maybe they were just touring the store. I just really like having that person to connect with. I’ve met a couple of cute girls but for one reason or another I haven’t found the right one. Don’t get me wrong I’m not giving up on any of them! I think I just need a little more time?

So I’ve been slowly working on this monstrosity that I call a blog. Blosxom is great in the beginning, So many plug ins so many options. And then you realize that it’s up to you to get them to work. I’ve added a RSS reader, random image generator, Category list, and Counter. I think I’ve gotten this ramshackle contraption to work well in most situations. A side effect of the counter in particular is that it keeps a log of visitors to the blog. I went through it today just to see what was up. The usual people were there Suleman in RI, Caroline in MI, My Sister in GA, GMU people, VT People. But the unknown is the most interesting… Who are you person from Amsterdam and Person from Wisconsin? And why have you graced me with your presence? Anyway everyone thanks for stopping by. Even though I know most of you are away message stalkers…

I played basketball last night. And miracle of miracles my knees didn’t fall off my body, or even hurt. Mainly because my elbows were killing me. I think this was because on Saturday I spent the morning and most of the afternoon chopping wood over at the Schlotter’s house. We finished the day with an assload of wood. And yes that is the technical term for it. I still have the wood in the back of my car. I’m hoping to sell it to one of the guys I work with. I really should go over and talk to him about it. Otherwise I’m going to drop most of it off at my parents house. oh well it was a fun time anyway.