Yeah, i know it’s been a long time since I blogged.

ya know, I just haven’t been very sociable or talkative lately in my real life, either.

I just noticed today that my journal, which I’ve kept rather religiously for many years now, no matter what was going on, had not been touched since Sept. 7.  I had a little bit of a hard time journaling because just not that much has gone on to journal about.

Oh, that’s not so honest, now that I think about it.  I’ve worked and gone to Wednesday Paseo and seen Juliet when she’s not staying in Tulsa or working on a “shoot”.  About the same as always, just not so much on my mind.  I’ve picked up a sponsee in AA for the first time in a rather long while and I’ve been taking him from his rehab. center to Tuesday and Thursday night meetings.  I’ve also taken down my MySpace page and the world didn’t even notice the ripple of that disaster going under.

However, mostly, i’ve focused on coming home for lunch and dinner and not eating out so much and doing other money-saving things and since I’m also focused on making money, I go to bed about 11 p.m. and get up before 7 a.m. and actually go to work and bill hours, but one effect of that is to keep me out of places like Rococo on Monday and Thursday nights to hear the live jazz.  I miss some of that, but I like how thick the stack of billing slips is getting this month.

I watched the Oregon-OU game this afternoon and it was a heartbreaker for Bob Stoop’s team to watch that field goal go through with only 40 seconds to go and there were a couple of undeniably bad calls.  Nevertheless, a really good team does not have three penalties in a row on first and goal from the two.  OU is not a really good team.  OU will also lose to Texas and maybe even more.  Too bad and oh well.  Not every year is a championship season.

I still get the feeling that most people are not putting two and two together about the gasoline prices.  A 1/3 drop in a matter of a couple of weeks after polling shows $3/gal gas is killing Bush’s approval rating.  Now, with $2.25 gas, his approval rating is going up and so are the chances that the GOP will retain control of both houses of Congress.  Nothing political about Shell, Exxon and BP, though.  NOOOOOOO.  Not so much.

I made beans and cornbread again this week and it’s still f’n good eats.  I spent $175 at the grocery this week, stocking up on a bunchacrap that will keep and get used up like deoderant and contact solution and that expensive stuff you buy at the grocery but don’t eat. 

I brought work home this weekend because I’m really jammed up on one case and as yet have not touched the file, much less opened it and worked on it.  I just don’t seem to be able to learn that trick.  However, I’ve been productive around the house, doing laundry, taking out the trash, doing the dishes, and — hold onto your undies — SWEEPING THE KITCHEN FLOOR!  Stop the damn presses, it’s a five star bulletin.

I hope this gentle weather is breaking OG&E, the lowlife scourge of working people.  The economics aside, I hate monopolies and can’t wait for every one of us to buy wind and solar power crap for residential use.  I wonder how efficiently a propane powered electric generator would work as an alternative?  If I can produce moving electrons cheaper than OG&E, I would do that so fast it would make heads spin, even if it meant a big metal cylinder in my back yard.

So, anyway, these days I’m reading other people’s blogs and enjoying them just like you guys. 

John X has been particularly interesting and I absolutely love his new, grainy, black and white noir series. 

MCARP has been rightfully nominated for an Okie Blog award and you should vote for him as often as you’re allowed. 

My daughter has started blogging on MySpace, now that I’m off, I guess, and she’s as funny as my sister and I know a lot of you read Mary’s funny stuff (she and I are one on politics this week).

If  you haven’t ready Erika West’s Karmic Ironies lately, she recently lost a beloved cat and mourns it lyrically on her blog this week.

Mike H, studied non-blogger that he is, provided this week’s Paseo Wednesday movie, “Winter Passing” with Oklahoma’s own Ed Harris and Saturday Night Live’s Will Ferrell.

I was bushed Friday afternoon and after an hour or so on the Paseo sidewalk, parted company with my Lido-bound buddies and went home and stayed there.  I’ve needed the rest, apparently, since I slept until 1 p.m. this afternoon, about 12 or more hours.

Love you guys and I’ll do my best not to go off the charts for so long again without some kind of warning — like, I’ll be gone Dec.2 for a long weekend to see my neice get married, that kind of thing.

oh! almost forgot!  Mary Beth Haas is a grandmother!