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Wow - looks like it’s been a while since I’ve put anything new up here. I have a good reason though. I didn’t feel like it. Honestly… I just couldn’t be bothered. But I know you’ll forgive me, because you’ve all come to expect this kind of flaky behavior in these nearly two years I’ve been doing this. If you’re angry, blame it on The Real World, which has a way of cutting into my goof-off-online time.

Speaking of The Real World, I’ve been spending a lot more time in it lately. Recently, my wife and I have been lamenting the ever-increasing sizes of our respective asses. The first step in realizing our goal of achieving smaller asses is to spend less time sitting on said asses. Less ass time means less time for writing on this weblog. After all, the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. There is wisdom here. Call it derriere Taoism.

Today, for example, we spent the day at the Los Angeles County Irish Fair and Music Festival. This is one of those things where you head out to a fairgrounds in the middle of the desert and drink over-priced (but quite good) beer and listen to raucous neo-celtic rock bands, cheered on by legions of revelers wearing newly-purchased kilts in honor of their 1/16 Irish heritage. But it was a good time, and I didn’t get sunburnt.

This new cultural awareness movement is interesting. It seems that after 200 years of the “melting pot” mentality in which long Polish names became short anglicized names with a more favorable vowel to consonant ratio, there is now this drive to reclaim all this lost ethnicity. Just 100 years ago, “No Irish Need Apply.” But now Americans by the thousands are attempting to rediscover the history our grandparents worked so hard to put behind them. It can go too far, certainly, but overall I think it’s healthy enough. Anytime I get to eat sausage and drink beer, how can it be other than a good thing? Still, it’s probably also a good thing that St. Patrick’s Day and Oktoberfest are half a year apart.

So, anyway, I’m back from the dead. And hopefully, I will be spending a bit more time on the site from now on. And maybe I’ll even come up with something funny to write about soon, but I’m not making any promises. Either way, I’ll talk to y’all soon.

Bye for now.

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