And that leads to...

I've been reading an introduction to philosophy these past couple of days. Rereading, actually. I kind of like reading philosophy every once in a while, but since I don't have a background in it at all I tend to forget some of the basic history and need a refresher on who was thinking what now and then.

It ain't easy to get those tenets into this short-attention-spanned brain, you know. Especially since, as I read about the great thinkers, this keeps playing over and over again in my head. Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course. It's a nice little tune, and one that I happen to be fond of. It just makes it a bit harder to pay attention to David Hume figuratively ripping the rationalists a new one when my internal voice (well, one of them) is gleefully reminding me that he could outconsume Hegel.

Oh, and if you happen to enjoy the philosophic stylings of M. Python, you might like this as well. I know I do.

Yeah. I'm that deep.

Anyway, this all has nothing much to do with anything except how easily my mind is led astray. Another example? Well, with all the talk of Remembrance Day lately my own personal music station has found itself playing God Save the Queen a bit too much. Except not exactly with those words.

More often with these words, sadly.

I'm such a product of my times.





And... because I took so long looking up the links (and finding others along the way, naturally), I now have no idea if I was going to make a real point with this post. Or non-post, as it turned out to be. I should be able to come up with some sort of a non-pumpkinising point, though. Let's see...

Ok, this'll do. If you've found yourself singing along with either of the musical clips (odd that they both have the Mitch Miller thing going on, really), you might want to stop before your yak snaps.

I'm done now.

Decisions, decisions

I'm facing one at the moment. No, I'm not going to tell you about what.

There's a lot not being said on the blog lately, isn't there?

Anyway, I have a decision to make and I'm not sure yet which way things are going to go.

I hate uncertainty.

I'm such a massive creature of habit. It bugs me even to have a piece of furniture slightly off-kilter in a room, so you can imagine what it's like when my actual life becomes slightly off-kilter.

I'm a poster child for discomfort at the moment.

Ah well.

Looks like this post is going to end pretty much the same way the last post did: a great big pile of nothing.

Ahhhhh well.

What can you do but go with it in the end, right?






Yep. And I'll keep trying to convince myself of that.

Still working on this whole blather thing

I need to work on the photo-taking thing as well. It's been a while since I've gone out with the camera.

Ah well. Nothing like doing a bit of nerdstick cleaning.

Anyway. Mood today is better, but I really don't have much I want to blather about. You might have gathered that my time's been taken up with actual real-life things for a change, and I don't mind telling you that actual real-life things are overrated. I'm looking forward to going back to living in my own personal little world, thank you very much.

I'm also looking forward to going back to living amongst my own stuff.

It's funny, that. I'm not a terribly materialistic person, but when I'm away from my stuff for too long I really start to miss it. My books, my food, my silly little time-wasters... my space, I guess. I mean, there's nothing at all wrong with this space, but it's very definitely not mine.

Not most of it, anyway.

Ah well. It looks like I might be seeing my stuff again soon, and those of my two fans who know what's going on know that the fact that I can honestly contemplate seeing my stuff in the near future is very good news. Especially when the news could have easily been so much worse.

Occasionally I've forgotten just how much worse it could have been.

Odd how the brain does that.





This is all I can muster for blather today. Tomorrow? Well, I'm not promising much, but we'll see how it goes.

Bugger

I was going to post. I really was. Not about what's been going on in my life (that falls under the category of None of Your Business), but about... something. Anything.

Well, something's happened and now I'm too worried/pissed off to think about the blather.

The pissed off outweighs the worried, thank goodness, but they're both there.

Someday I may actually get my life back, you know. It might not be as soon as I'd hoped last night, but someday it'll happen.







Please say it'll happen.

Yep, and another from the trail

While we were out on this walk something occurred to me.

Do you think the vivid and wonderful colours of Autumn are Nature's way of lulling us into thinking the changing of seasons is a good thing?

I mean as I'm walking through the woods or driving down a street and find myself surrounded by these hues of Autumn, it lifts my spirit.

Then *bam!!* A month or six weeks goes by and it's necessary to put on those dollar-store skinny gloves when you next go driving so your hands don't freeze from the steering wheel.

It couldn't be a conspiracy on the part of the universe, do you think?

I'm just sayin'

She's right, you know

I don't get by here nearly as much lately. Life is happening around me. It's got no business doing that, you know. Heaven knows I try to keep it down to a minimum.

Have a bit of what we saw on the trail whilst walking the pups the other day then.

Just as an aside I'm up to here, or wherever, with election coverage first from the Great White North and now the U.S.

But soon there will be new hype to ignore. And on this dreary November day that's about as exciting as it gets.

I should add that the tone of this post was brought to you by the letters B and X and by the chest cold-becoming head cold-becoming infection I seem to have contracted from Alberta.
Does that make it a computer virus then?

And now...

Hey, all.

Just in case you wondered, my personal train's had somewhat of a derailing in the past day. Definitely not in the mood to attempt blathering for now. Things should be ok, really, but it'll take a bit to get the cars back on the track.

See you in a while.