random thoughts and thoroughbred selections

Saturday, October 15, 2005

I'll Break It Down Simply

I'm not one of those bloggers that quotes song lyrics, but there's this one line that's been bouncing around in my head, a small part of a pretty awesome larger whole:

I'll break it down simply / I'm horrifyingly empty

In context, it's actually a pretty awesome little phrase, and I found an occasion to use it in another short story from the criminally under-written "Langston Saga" that's destined for this or next month's Truckin'. Not the whole phrase, just the "horrifyingly empty" part. Oh, and Doc (not Doc)? I (probably temporarily) named the ex-wife character after you. Absolutely no similarity intended.

Anyway, I really don't have any reason to bring that up other than it was on the iPod on my drive home and I just find the whole verse surrounding that phrase just astonishingly impressive. I don't feel "horrifyingly empty," if that's where you think I'm going with this. I don't think that's even something that's remotely close. I'm full of a lot of things, existential nothingness would not be one of those things.

I am nearly empty of patience most times, as evidenced by my day today. Apologies to the Princess if I was a little short at times today. One of my worst habits is jumping over the top of people trying to talk to me, assuming I know where they're going, which makes me find a way to take them there faster. Of course, my tolerance level for that behavior back at me is absolutely minimal, and in a chat today I snapped back pretty hard. And then I end up at this birthday bar night where the mother of the birthday boy's girlfriend was in attendance. She is a woman for whom I have zero patience. I find the snark dialed up into the high nines when she's in my ear, which isn't "Nice BG," but isn't quite yet "Overtly Abrasive BG" either.

For example? Sure...

One of birthday boy's seldom-seen friends was in attendance, and showed up wearing a Transformers T-shirt. No biggie, it's the bar. Anyway, somewhere down the line the drunk mom of dude's girlfriend says (not to me specifically, but to anyone in earshot), "Don't you think James looks nice tonight?" I snapped back, "That T-shirt says 'insouciant,' with barely a hint of immaturity." One of the guys across the table nearly choked on his beer.

(Side note: If you're reading this, and think I'm making that up to seem witty, quippy, pithy, whatever... you really don't know me at all, do you?)

Anyway, I only let shit like that come out of my mouth to taunt her. I don't know why I let a fifty-something woman crawl under my skin like that. She's a nice enough lady, I'm a nice enough guy most of the time, but she's just one of those people who know the code on the keypad to activate launch sequence, if you get where I'm going with that.

I'm irked tonight already, then I come home to see another shot fired across my bow on my side project. I'd ignore it if it wasn't so riddled with errors.

You know, and I hate to be this guy because it's not coming from a good spot in my head and all, but when someone is so fucking wrong in their assumptions and obviously too fucking lazy to check their facts before they post said assumptions, I have a hard time letting it go. If you want to use Bloglines stats as a barometer, make sure you're recording a complete set of data before jotting down your conclusions, because as it stands? OJ > Rini on Bloglines, which - if I'm not mistaken - would put OJ in this supposed top ten of yours. Of course, were you to want to amend your data to include the PokerFilter project under your umbrella (+48), then don't forget to add our other projects too (121 for RTATS and 77 for BT). If you want a popularity contest, whip it out. Poker bloggers cannibalize each other, that's the truth underlying the average poker blog's stats. Let's see where your growth is coming from in comparison to what we're doing. I guess I don't have anything really to say about that in general. Keep it up. I'm working too hard at what I'm doing to be impacted by some hastily prepared assumptive swipe.

No one's ever asked you to like it. Just so you know.

[>>]posted at 12:05 AM by BG - click to email
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Friday, October 14, 2005

For The Record

Subscribers to feeds, as reported by Bloglines:

All subscribers to all feeds listed when http://www.billrini.com/index.php is typed into the "Add" feature on Bloglines: 13+6+6+115 = 140

All subscribers to all feeds listed when http://www.oddjack.com/ is typed into the "Add" feature on Bloglines: 62+13+48+4+3+19+0+0 = 149

For the record.

[>>]posted at 10:58 PM by BG - click to email
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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Sneak Preview

Wild Mushroom Asiago Risotto finished with Fresh Pesto

[>>]posted at 6:35 PM by BG - click to email
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