Oddball Update

As my workday comes to a close, and my efforts gladly wind down, I think that what I’m most looking forward to this evening is going to bed.

Greetings from Southeast Asia! It’s our second and last day in Bangkok, Thailand, before we head to our final destination in the nation’s south. So far, our travels from the U.S.

Our travel date nears, and so, as you might expect, preparations for said trip have just about reached fever pitch around here.

I went to pick up some homemade soup for Apple today. Her Thai friend down at her workplace had made her something special, so when I stopped in to get it, we got to talking a little bit.

Hard to believe it’s only Tuesday, after how taxing this week has already been. It seems like everything I’ve done so far this week has been met with an inordinate amount of complication and frustration.

Nothing really important has happened in the last week or two — at least, nothing that I could craft a well-structured and thought-provoking article around.

Following our trip to Thailand, we’ve been back in the U.S. now for just over a week. It seems like much longer.

I don’t often write about politics on this blog. Okay, to be more specific, I never do. One post does not a trend make, so I haven’t created a “Politics” category or anything, but this one post simply had to be written.

I have a ton of stuff to say on so many different topics, there is absolutely no point in trying to name this post after any of them. So I’m going for the “mash-up” theme.

Okay, so I never saw the movie 300, in which Gerard Butler screams “THIS! IS!