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It's about time we blogged again, so I decided tonight's the night ... we'll make history (Nice one, Billy Joel, but no one would have caught that one.)
We are done with Holidays. No mas. Nein. Nyet. Jamais.
They were great and lovely and we thoroughly enjoyed every bloody moment we spent with the bulk of you at your parties and get-togethers.
I particularly enjoyed my boss closing the shop three days in two weeks. It was just fantastic and I hope that all you who still work in retail will find employment elsewhere so you, too, can feel the benefits of temporary unemployment. 'Tis a blessed thing.
To those of you who sought to spoil our children -- Shaaaaaame on you! A pox upon thine house!
And to those of you who didn't -- shaaaaame on you! Now I got pox all over my house!

I began school today. I set myself up for a tear-wrenching disaster by taking 18 credit hours whilst I work nearly full-time at the shop. For those of you who can't remember (or were never acquainted with) how college works, slave labor is tallied in credit hours. If you earn enough of these hours, you are released into the green pastures of LalaLand where you are allowed to think for yourself (usually meaning less liberally) and work for money (usually meaning not much). I am, as of tonight, signed up for two management classes (small business management and project management), two communication courses (advanced audio/visual production and interpersonal/small group communication), two English courses (Eminent Authors: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Intro to Fiction) and finally two Engrish courses (Japanese-American authors and Japanese poriticar phirosophy).

I do have an announcement to make as well. I will begin my new blog. My good friend Mike Wheeler came up with the title for me: Intermittent Ridiculousness. So come one or come none. Go there. It'll be good. Or maybe it won't. It shouldn't suck outright, though. So there you have it. I'll have silly columns, and maybe a couple videos, clowns and maybe even Batman (ya know, for the kids.) Whatever I put there will at least be funnier than this post. I'm actually surprised you made it this far. That's really incredible. Truly.