Making The Time

Now that I’ve moved down a couple of posts, Heroic Portraits isn’t getting any traffic from The Absorbascon.
Of course, it’s not like it really matters, as the hits I was getting didn’t drum up any business.
(Despite what follows in this entry, I have actually been doing some work towards upgrading the site, such as looking through tutorials on generating Flash-based sites, and working on some new pictures.)
Today found me once again failing to stick to my new schedule.
This was due in no small part to the fact that I didn’t wake up until nearly 10, a point at which, per my schedule, I should have already had breakfast, showered, and spent some time dicking around.
Yes, that’s right; I built “dicking around” time into my schedule.
In doing so I followed the wisdom of Carl Brutananadilewski of Aqua Teen Hunger Force: “I don’t have all day to jack around. I mean, I do that; I make the time.”
Of course, I don’t follow Carl’s example by peeing into an empty coffee can, though given the environmentally hostile nature of my forty year old toilets, maybe I should. After all, when you conserve water by peeing in a can all day and then just flushing it all at once, you save a lot of water, which is good for the environment, and make those tree-hugger chicks moist as a result.
Okay, too many ATHF references, I guess.
Once I did get up, I extended the dicking around time considerably, then finally showered and ventured out into the world. I went to Super Target to pick up a few sundries, including a cheap ($6) phone to put in my office, as that’s where I spend most of my time, so I might as well have a phone nearby to make it that much easier to answer all the phone calls I’m not getting from prospective employers.
(And to answer the call I am getting from a fax machine with a blocked number every morning)
I actually put the new phone in the kitchen and brought the kitchen phone to the office, as it has a caller ID display, and isn’t really working that well as a wall phone, since I broke the clip for the battery cover when I was putting in the batteries, so now the cover is held in place by tape, and, when vertical, comes loose and interferes with the ability of the handset to rest on the base. That’s not an issue when it’s lying flat as a desk phone.
Anyway, after Super Target I went to the McDonald’s drive through to get lunch, as I figured that playing their Monopoly game is probably at least as effective a way of trying to secure an income as applying for jobs.
In that regard I was mistaken, as there was no game piece included on my drink or my fries.
Oh well.
(For he record, though, I did actually apply for several jobs today.)
And that’s pretty much been my day up to now.