Boy, have I seriously set myself up for utter failure and disappointment. October seems to be the month that I have set some pretty lofty goals for myself. Being that I tend to take things pretty hard, I am going to concentrate on following through on these goals. Typically, these would be goals set January 1st as some sort of New Year's resolution. Either I am really late in getting to this, or, as I like to think, extremely early.

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I think that I will split up the week with a little one hitter, if you will. It is about the days of last week. I will try a little brevity and give just the details. I will not try to go into some cosmic connections and signs that I must heed. No, just the facts.

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*This is a tip o' the hat to my favorite (and only, that I know of) brother Jason. I like music, he loves it. 'Nuff said.

I have spent the last few days listening to the music of my youth, more specifically, of my days in high school. I have not been doing this as a way of fondly looking back at days of yore and remembering the good old days (I was a total geek, the Apple IIe and sheets of dot-matrix printed BASIC code were my best friends). I have been listening much the same way one would look back at history to gain a greater understanding of where I was and how I came to be as a better way of looking at the future (my head hurts now). Who knew that hard rock and heavy metal could have caused such introspection? It is not, so much what lies in the lyric of the songs (Love is like a bomb, baby come and get it on/Living like a lover with a radar phone? Keats is super jealous) but the songs, as a whole, and the where I go upon hearing a certain song or band.

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I know that it has been a long time since my last post and I agree that there may be no reason to return to it. But, what the hell, I am going to do it anyways. This time, I have made a pledge, nay, a deep heartfelt promise, to post at least once a week. Why, you may ask? You'll have to just accept the very parental answer of “because I said so”.

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A few months ago, I was asked if I would like to partake in the workplace beer club. The obvious answer would have been “yes”. But, there was some hesitation in my answer to accept the invitation. The biggest reason I would ever decline the offer would be that I do not have a refined palette and my vocabulary in describing the array of flavors from

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This is an exchange between my boss and I. Fun stuff, I say, fun stuff.

To My Dear Friend Jeff Loop,

It was a dark and stormy night. After driving many miles through rain, lightning and thunder, I arrived at my humble abode. Exhausted as I was after such an arduous journey, I could barely make it into my house. I was very happy to see my beautiful wife and son and greeted each of them with a kiss and long hug. They each looked at me with a smile and I knew I was truly happy to be home.

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Having worked (currently working) in retail, I have come to really understand that nothing is shocking. Mix necessities with the general public and you have a front row seat to the greatest show on earth. Unlike rummage sales, which provides me with a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives, real or recreated in my head, of ordinary folks, the retail outlet store is a place where people aren't guarded and are how they are in real life.

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Why is it that the smallest things can cause the biggest reactions? Typically, I am not an angry person or live on the brink of having the biggest meltdown this side of 3 Mile Island. But, sometimes, there are things people do or say that make me want to hand out business sized cards that simply read “Just Don't”.

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Dear Bed,

Oh how I love you. I love to lay upon you and bury my head into your soft giant pillows. Our flesh touching and you accepting me into you. And, as morning calls, you wish not for me to leave you but I must. I will return to you, with my hot, South American love, coffee. You accept her and she, you. Our blissful menage trois could last forever but, alas, it will not. Sadness, infinite sadness. Night is but a few hours away and the thought of you puts a little smile upon my face.

Yours always,

Jeff