Signs of Life

Posted by danleone on January 13th, 2008 filed in blogging

For both of you that were worried, I am alive. Just lost my network at home last week and trying to pick up the pieces with minimal F-bombs (I am up to 25 F-Bombs in the course of three days!). Still working on it, but I won’t be done this weekend. It won’t be done because apparently I have these three baby goats that I am supposed to toss a bone to once in a while. This weekend is one of those “once in a whiles.” Curses! Doesn’t the Mistress Goatkeeper understand that I DON’T HAVE THE INTERNET!? Of course she doesn’t. She would rather we dust the effing lightbulbs or pay bills or feed the kids or look the kids in the eyes when they speak to us or…choke….gasp…..PLAY WITH THEM! JEEZ! No internet! You might as well rip out my liver with a rusty putty knife!

Temper tantrum – I can take that off my todo list.

Stay tuned for my latest and greatest post: My 5th grader is not smarter than a 5th grader.

In the meantime, look over to the right and click on anyone else in my blogroll. These people are more eloquent, funnier, entertaining, smarter and more huggable than I will ever be. They all cast giant shadows and all I can do is bask in their coolness.

By the way, this is gross, but I just noticed that my hands still smell like the Nuclear Meltdown Buffalo Wings I ate last night during the Pats game; despite having washed my hands 8 billion times. So much for being a vegan! But if God really wanted us to be vegetarian, he wouldn’t have put wings on those poor buffaloes!  ->Even if you are not laughing at that, I am! Sometimes I surprise myself.

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15 Responses to “Signs of Life”

  1. ender Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    ACK! no internet????? everything in the universe must stop until access is restored. there are no exceptions to this! it’s unnatural.

    and talk about a bad visual break in the lines of the post … the first line ends with “Just lost my home” and by the time i get my old and ancient eyes around to line two and “network last week” my heartrate is already acclerating and the adrenaline is already pumping its empathetic cocktail into my bloodstream.

    glad you’re relatively all right. though loss of internet is right up there with loss of limbs, imho.

  2. danleone Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Thanks Ender! I changed it so everyone reading your comment will think you are crazy. You don’t mind, do you?

  3. terri Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    I don’t think Ender is crazy. I can still figure out what that paragraph must have said before you changed it!

    That being said, I am suffering sympathy pains here over your loss of internet. The internet is a staple of life, isn’t it? And what’s with that Mistress Goatkeeper? Doesn’t she understand that being without the internet is like asking you to give up breathing? Of course, the mommy side of me has to agree that she might have a point in regards to giving the kids some attention now and then.

  4. Gina K Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    Oh no! No internet??? How will you survive??? I didn’t have a phone for like a half an hour yesterday because they had to switch our service over and I thought I was going to die…I didn’t need to call anyone or anything…it was just the knowing that I couldn’t if I wanted to. I hope you will be ok and also…give those baby goats a big ole round of attention for me…they are the cutest things I have ever seen!

  5. ender Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    big meanybutt … hey, you want me to host your background image like i host mikster’s??? :D

  6. mikster Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    ender is crazy, natch. ;)

  7. Deb Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    Dude… dusting versus the internet? I get that thing up and running in every house before we even move in. The internet is as critical as air for me. Dusting… not so much.

  8. Lyssa Ireland Thomas Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Glad you’re back – I can go on living!

    I was really hoping I’d be able to say our little Jags wiped the football field up with your Pats, but no such luck. Congrats anyway (it’s still sorta my victory since I lived in MA and all my family is there, right?)!

  9. bmgmom Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Whew! Glad you’re back.

  10. Avery Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 1:44 am

    Have I ever told you how funny you are? No? That’s odd.

    ;o)

  11. melissa Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    um…have you tried showering? that usually removes most unwanted odors…but, you have to use soap because, that usually will do trick. just a suggestion…hope that helps!!
    xo

  12. Dan Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    I too am without internet at the moment.

    Good job I don’t do anything at work or I’d not be able to blog.

  13. meleah rebeccah Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    “These people are more eloquent, funnier, entertaining, smarter and more huggable than I will ever be”

    Will you STOP saying that about yourself? You are a WONDERFUL person and blogger!

    No more talking bad about yourself.

  14. danleone Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Thanks Mel! Clearly, you have picked up on my feeble attempt at getting compliments.

    You are so much better than I am for even saying that! [insert wink here]

  15. meleah rebeccah Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Oh God!

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