October 05, 2009
Rusty's Effed Up Life
Most of you have noticed I've been gone lately. I apologize for that. Also, apologies for getting way behind on my email.
Last week it was because my hard drive got fried. Monday I took the a "sick" day off work and went fishing. That evening I returned to get caught up on some things and my computer crashed.
It's tempting to blame the crash on Barbarossa. He sent a link to our group saying that some government types were suspicious about it. So, I checked it out. Didn't seem fishy to me. Until I clicked on one of the outgoing links and my computer crashed.
Doubly tempting to want to blame that particular website because the last time my computer crashed it was because a member of the Taliban finally got the better of me and was able to infect my computer with a virus.
Well played Adil. Well played.
But I think that my initial reaction was a classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. That is, to assume that the timing of two events mean that the first one caused the second one.
The guys over in IT think it was physical failure on the hard drive. Which means that Barbarossa is in the clear.
So, the good news is that I have my computer back. The bad news is that I'm moving this week.
The worse news is that the remodel on the new house isn't done yet. As of right now, I don't have a functional kitchen, no flooring in 1/4 of the house, and one of the two bathrooms isn't complete.
Over the past few years I've blamed HGTV for slowly sucking the life out of me. HGTV's plot is now complete. My life is totally effed up.
I probably won't be blogging much this week. Most of my time will be spent trying to get the new house in working order, and then in getting us moved in.
Again, apologies.
If you feel like you want to contribute to the Shackleford remodeling fund, then I would appreciate any tips given through paypal in the left hand column of the blog.
Thanks in advance, keep me in your prayers, and if you hear about any class action lawsuits against HGTV for misleading bored housewives into thinking they can take on any size remodeling job then let me know.
