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Why

I’m sure you’re asking yourself: Why hasn’t he had a blog entry in a while. Oh, he rambled on about music and what-not but not a whole lot lately.

I’ll tell you why. The hottest part of the summer my air conditioner broke down. I woke up in the morning like I had just gotten off a water park ride. I didn’t feel much like turning the computer on let alone writing in this blog.

I got the air conditioning replaced and all is well in that world. Then work picked up. I worked 12-hour days all Labor Day weekend (yes, I’m aware of the irony) and long days Monday through Wednesday of the following week. I wasn’t sleeping well any of those nights. My boss gave me Thursday and Friday off but ended up calling me in on Friday and, again, ended up working a long day.

That’s not an excuse – it’s my reason. I want to tell you what’s going on in my world. I want to explain why I am the way I am. I want you to understand why women cringe when they see me coming toward them, even when I don’t understand that one myself. I want you to believe me when I’ve had 5 requests for my picture in e-mail conversations only to never hear from 4 of them again.

I actually had a date with the other one only to hear very little from her again.

And here I am, with football playing in the background, trying to explain to you what’s going on when I don’t even know myself. I had plans today with no less than 3 people (plus Superman who called this morning to come watch football).

Here I sit, by myself, watching football having heard barely a word from anyone. I’m making a call.

Left a voicemail. I’ll try to keep this thing updated a little more often.

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