For those of you who may not know (which I assume is an overwhelming percentage, though I also realize the vast majority don't care), it is now "a quarter after 2" in the morning on May 23, 2014. Three hours ago, it was still the 22nd of May. That's simple Math for many of you, & it probably matters little, if at all.
However, it means a lot to me, as I got an E-mail around 10:30 that night (when I read it; it was sent much earlier that morning) from a guy my "simple Math" estimates I have now known (& considered my "best friend") for a quarter-century.
Something many of you are also probably not aware about, & may be more-interested in, is the fact I am typing this on my personal computer, bought legally for me (by which I mean both it wasn't stolen & the purchase had to literally get OKed by local courts before it was made; read earlier blogs if you forgot/are unsure why). However, my "game plan" right now is to save this when it's finished on what I've been referring to as an "external hard drive", & post it online later today/tomorrow/oh, whatever... Friday via Mom's computer, which I have been borrowing yet again periodically.
The reason for that is my computer is (the "taskbar" tells me) unable to get online right now (or the last few weeks). I plan to send it in to the "Geek Squad" again soon to try & fix this, but that will be the 4th time I've given it to them, & I have barely owned this machine that many months.
One reason I am hesitant to give it to them is I believe I was overcharged in a few different ways the other times. Another is I am working on saving a lot of documents, programs, & media (videos, pictures, & music) via that aforementioned "external hard drive", & am in the process of organizing it so it will take-up less space on the drive when I do so.
One major part of this organization is compiling bands that are listed under different names, but (I believe) are the same exact people. [No joke: I recently combined the "Black Eyed Peas" sections spelled both with &/or without a hyphen in the first word(s), & only minutes ago combined "AC-DC" spelled with a hyphen &/or the slash I just-now used.]
One of the reasons I admit this is taking so long is I spend a lot of time searching for different songs on my Media Player, & listening to them. (That takes maybe 4 minutes, after which I do what I'm choosing to now call "Six Degrees of the Bacon Brothers", searching for similar titles, & listening to those songs, in a neverending list.)
I don't know why, but a few nights ago, I was feeling more religious than I have in a while, & simply searched the word, "Confession". (Maybe I was feeling the need for a religious observance between Mother's & Memorial Days.) As you might expect, the majority of my results were songs by Dashboard Confessional. Again for a reason I'm unsure of, I ended-up listening to a song called, "Ender Will Save Us All".
I admit that this very second, I'm not positive who "Ender" is, or if it's even a person, thing, or maybe some sort of machine. ("Final Jeopardy!" tonight got me thinking about Kubrick & "Artificial Intelligence".) I seem to recall reading someplace it was the middle name of lead-singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba, but can't be sure of that at the moment.
"SPOILER ALERT!": The song, while great, never tells you who or what (if in fact anything at all) "Ender" is, nor how it/they "Will Save Us All".
Regardless, I have spent the past few days (including hours all over my alarm clock, or the one on my digital-cable box, or the one on this PC) listening to that song, watching my favorite episode of the long-cancelled "Sports Night" (which I did at 1:30 this morning, with my "Complete Series" DVD-set well within reach, part of me wondering why I don't see any pronunciation mark at the end of Peter Krause's name in the credits, as I believe there should be the way people pronounce it on TV these days), & having a meal with Mom at the local (& self-proclaimed "Original") Hot Dog Shoppe, recalling the days I spent debating becoming a part of the Facebook Group I read about dedicated to that place. (I forget my final decision; Let me know if you find me in it!)
Why am I doing all this?! Because I recently-learned getting rid of the "legal guardian" who was involved in the original purchase of this machine is a much-longer & more-complicated task than I originally imagined. I'm quite-well-aware I could stop doing this work if I were to, say, stop taking my Lantus or the roughly-2 pills I take each night (about an-hour-and-a-half ago), thereby reconnecting me with the "LG". However, if I wanted that, I never would have begun the work to disconnect us 4 months ago, which my immediate family is well-aware was all begun due to my choice & (thus far, largely) my individual action.
--Blog Complete 5/23/14 @ 2:49 AM
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