No I'm not dead. Just being a slacker. Last week was strangely busy. Not horribly busy, just more than usual. That, and the fact that I had nothing in particular to say equals no posts. I'll start posting again some day.
My rear fence is being removed/rebuilt. That's a rather strange experience to have no fence between your yard and your neighbors. That was the only time I thought (seriously) about putting curtains on my big picture window. But the fence is mostly up, and the ivy mostly gone. There are a couple more bits and pieces to be done. I'm glad I have the wherewithal to pay someone else to do it, because I sure as hell didn't want to have to do the work.
Work is still a pain in the ass. I did consider whether I could take a year off of work and go do something... anything... (is it too early for my mid-life crisis??). While I can afford to do it (if I sell enough stock), I'm not sure what I'd actually do with myself. And being the masochist for emotional pain that I am... I think I'll just stay a while. Right up until I go postal. But then then won't probably let me travel... Hm... I may need to reconsider this taking time off thing... The real reason I don't want to go is not because I think I'll be bored with a year off (although that might be true). I think it's because I might never want to come back, and I definitely don't have the money to stay gone permanently. (Ah... I pine for the good old days when I was going to retire by 35 because the stock was going to keep going up forever...)
Posted by cshell at November 2, 2003 11:33 PM