Smokin an Drinkin
Ever have one of those days?
My day was strange...and I had lots of things running through my head today, things I wanted to put here but those are all gone, in favor of this important event:
Robert Jordan is dead.
Not only is he dead, he died in the process of writing the LAST MOTHER FUCKING BOOK in his impossibly long Wheel of Time series.
That series and I have a history. Well, sort of. See, I started reading it when there were three books out (around 1997?) and thoroughly enjoyed them. I read through most of the series, but honestly with so much time between books (and the books being incredibly massive) I kind of lost interest. Honestly I had no idea how much longer the series was going to take, and apparently I quit with about two books to go. Damn.
But come one, his last few books covered so little ground, it was like five different stories all saying, "Ain't it funny how men do this and women do this?" That may be harsh, but that's how I felt when I put the last book down.
And now he's dead. He's got a backup writer to finish it up, but it's like...damn. The timing is just...wow.
So anyway, my day was indeed strange. I woke up dizzy and in a cloud, which lasted till about 1 pm. Another weird thing was I kept seeing people in public that I thought was someone I knew but turned out not to be. I mean, this happened three times today in three different places. Strange. I didn't eat lunch, but as it turned out it was ok because I wasn't hungry until about the time that I left work. Took it home, got some Chik-Fil-A, threw in some laundry, did some job hunting, made some food for lunch tomorrow...pretty productive for me; usually when I get home from work I can't do anything but stare at a computer screen.
Saturday my friend Will brought over the Yamaha street bike that he had just bought. I gotta tell you, the thing looks really sexy, and it makes me want one. I've always loved motorcycles, but been kind of wary about driving something that doesn't have a few feet of metal between me and the road. But I dunno, I've been so blase lately it might be just the thing I need to get into right now. We'll see, I don't exactly have the money right now anyway.
So smokin an drinkin? Because I just lit up a cigarette and opened my beer bottle with a lighter (my newest skill I acquired Labor Day weekend).
My day was strange...and I had lots of things running through my head today, things I wanted to put here but those are all gone, in favor of this important event:
Robert Jordan is dead.
Not only is he dead, he died in the process of writing the LAST MOTHER FUCKING BOOK in his impossibly long Wheel of Time series.
That series and I have a history. Well, sort of. See, I started reading it when there were three books out (around 1997?) and thoroughly enjoyed them. I read through most of the series, but honestly with so much time between books (and the books being incredibly massive) I kind of lost interest. Honestly I had no idea how much longer the series was going to take, and apparently I quit with about two books to go. Damn.
But come one, his last few books covered so little ground, it was like five different stories all saying, "Ain't it funny how men do this and women do this?" That may be harsh, but that's how I felt when I put the last book down.
And now he's dead. He's got a backup writer to finish it up, but it's like...damn. The timing is just...wow.
So anyway, my day was indeed strange. I woke up dizzy and in a cloud, which lasted till about 1 pm. Another weird thing was I kept seeing people in public that I thought was someone I knew but turned out not to be. I mean, this happened three times today in three different places. Strange. I didn't eat lunch, but as it turned out it was ok because I wasn't hungry until about the time that I left work. Took it home, got some Chik-Fil-A, threw in some laundry, did some job hunting, made some food for lunch tomorrow...pretty productive for me; usually when I get home from work I can't do anything but stare at a computer screen.
Saturday my friend Will brought over the Yamaha street bike that he had just bought. I gotta tell you, the thing looks really sexy, and it makes me want one. I've always loved motorcycles, but been kind of wary about driving something that doesn't have a few feet of metal between me and the road. But I dunno, I've been so blase lately it might be just the thing I need to get into right now. We'll see, I don't exactly have the money right now anyway.
So smokin an drinkin? Because I just lit up a cigarette and opened my beer bottle with a lighter (my newest skill I acquired Labor Day weekend).