{"id":27,"date":"2002-06-16T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-16T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=27"},"modified":"2002-06-16T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-16T00:41:00","slug":"what-is-life-but-a-mere-shadow-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-06\/27-what-is-life-but-a-mere-shadow-of-reality","title":{"rendered":"What is Life, but a mere shadow of reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so suddenly I find myself in One of Those Moods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a miserable day overall. There&#8217;s really no other way to put it. First, there&#8217;s the weather&#8230; for the past two days, it has been a combination of heavy rain with thunder storms and overly hot and muggy in between more rain. All of which means I can&#8217;t do any <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.badinage.com\/xoozland\/H2231E-531X.jpg\">more work<\/a> on the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.badinage.com\/xoozland\/H2231E-532X.jpg\">front garden<\/a> today. Something about not wanting to use power tools in the rain, I guess. Call me a wimp, but <b>electrocution<\/b> is just not one of the <i>fetishes<\/i> I am into!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fetishes, another reason for my weird mood at the moment is I just discovered some more <b>&#8220;net porn&#8221;<\/b> of a former friend of mine. (I&#8217;d mention names, and she has a livejournal account, but I don&#8217;t think she knows I have one now&#8230; and I think I&#8217;d like to keep it that way, at least for the time being.) Oddly enough, a few of the pictures aren&#8217;t too horrid!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s been rainy all day. Do you think I could have gotten any work done <b>INSIDE<\/b> the house? Something like the already late June issue of <b><i>The Zero Card<\/i><\/b>? Well, I tried. But no matter what I did, I either got side-tracked by food or television, or just plain lost my creative train of thought. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>And of course there&#8217;s my current lack of female companionship to deal with as well. My life is a soap opera&#8230; aren&#8217;t we all? Which is why I don&#8217;t need to <b>watch<\/b> them on tv! I thought about calling one of several female-type friends, just to see if they were around and could be talked into doing something&#8211; anything&#8211; with me today. Then I realized that I was probably just trying to avoid working on <b><i>The Zero Card<\/i><\/b>, and didn&#8217;t call any of them. Chances are they would have wanted me to go over to their place&#8230; which meant having to take extra time away from my attempts to work on <b><i>The Zero Card<\/i><\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I finally <b>DID<\/b> manage to get some work done on <b><i>The Zero Card<\/i><\/b>. A few more finishing touches, and it might actually hit the streets tomorrow! That will depend on whether I can get it done in time to sneak into the office to use the photocopier <i>(you didn&#8217;t hear that confession from me, even though I <b>do<\/b> use my own paper when I do it)<\/i> and then drive downtown to distribute it before the few stores it&#8217;s at close. <i>(ugh, there must be a better way to write that last sentence, but I&#8217;m not going to bother to try to fix it now!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>so&#8230; how was <b>YOUR<\/b> day, dear?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. A note about my music at the moment: Rhea&#8217;s Obsession &#8212; Re-Initiation. This is an EXTREMELY TASTY album, and &#8220;Memento Mori&#8221; in particular. I highly recommend you track down this CD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so suddenly I find myself in One of Those Moods&#8230; It&#8217;s been a miserable day overall. There&#8217;s really no other way to put it. 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