4:02 PM >> Not Billing

It's Tuesday and I'm not billing this afternoon. I hate it when I'm not billing, not because I am not making any money (I make the same amount whether I am billing or not billing anyway), but because someone will eventually come to my office and say, "What have you been doing?" I've been not billing, and I've been not billing because I can only ask for work so many times before I feel like I become a desperate pest.

Now that I am almost a licensed practitioner of the law (meaning I am allowed to read a statute and tell you what it means, you stupid citizens, and then make you pay me for it - just kidding, I don't know what the statutes mean either), I try to keep very busy and am usually pretty good about it, but I do run into downtime where I have already abused my work-seeking privileges, and I've recently become very bored with everything, especially the internet because there are about five interesting web sites in existence to me, so today I guess I decided I'll start blogging instead of trying to think of something interesting to wiki, though I might still wiki and then blog about what I find. By the way, the five sites are: Drudgereport (because I am always waiting for the world to end and I know Drudge will have the story first), Weather Underground (because I like watching Doppler track the storms coming into metro Atlanta and Weather.com sucks), Wachovia (because I am interested in how much money I don't have yet and what it is being spent on), eBay (because I am going to win a ghost in a bottle one day or something equivalent), and HughHewitt.com (a conservative blog because I am a conservative libertarian but I really don't enjoy HughHewitt.com so much anymore but I still visit it). As you can see, I suck at being interesting on the web.

I see that Corporal and Ensign have been blogging now and then for years, and I have made about four entries in the history of this blog - and all blogs put together. They are much more experienced than me ... I ... me ... this blogger. But I can catch up quickly.

Well, I've already forgotten what I really want to blog about today. I had an idea in my mind and forgot it. And usually the process goes that I make a blog entry and act as if I will be back shortly to make more and more entries but in actuality I disappear for a year before my next entry. Therefore, I am never making any blogging promises. If I post, I post.

Oh yeah, I think I am going to start a book in the winter, everything else in my life quiets down. Stephanie and I just finished the end of a very long run of busy weekends that started in April of 2004 and culminating in her sister's wonderful wedding at which I spoke and thus embarrassed myself, so we are going to be excited to have our time back (to do things like yard work and housework - because that is how we are required to dream about using our spare time). I have two main ideas for my book, which will be on the short side (at least as of now), and neither idea relates to anything funny, wry, or ironic. I am a very depressed and sad writer, so if the book gets published, don't expect any hilarity or poignant phrases. I am saving those for later in life to save my parents the embarrassment of my relating my family life (that's where all of the action in my life has happened - nothing has ever been as exciting as my intact nuclear experience, except for being married of course which is family + romance). So expect my ironic family romance comedy memoir sometime far away from now. In the nearer future, expect not that.

This post doesn't even come close to matching the mood of the other posts by Corporal and Ensign. Plus, Ensign apparently has been taking control of the ship according to his photographs which displeases me. I'll have to take some disciplinary action on his skullduggery.