confusion

As the title says, this post is a big heaping pile of nonsense that most people would be better off just skipping completely.

There seems to be an endless supply of interpersonal interactions in life that I don't have a clue how to handle.  How did I ever make it to this point without mastering, or at least familiarizing myself with these skills?

Case in point...names...I cant remember them for the life of me.  I know that this situation could EASILY be remedied by making a point of saying the person's name every time I talk to them, even if it is a bit odd at first.  Perhaps some sort of word association would also help.  Rather than fix the problem I stick to my regular routine of never saying names in fear that I might forget one someday.

There are countless other examples, but I don't care to enumerate them at this time...

ernesto strikes

With much needed rain and a cool breeze, Ernesto moved through on Friday. Left behind was a path of leaf destruction and a power outage in my neighborhood...what a surprise! Fortunately, as I mentioned earlier, I purchased an oil lamp for just such an occasion. Since I had never used one of these archaic devices, it took me a while to get it going (apparently, you have to let the oil soak into the cloth wick thingy which takes forever). Burning cloth also sets off fire alarms pretty easily, so if you have a hypersensitive one like I do, might want to rip it out of the socket and throw it at something before you proceed. Anyways, I survived my fourth night without power this summer with neither bumps nor bruises...and managed to read a few chapters of my latest book in the process :)