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March 21, 2007:

THE ROADRUNNER (BEEP BEEP)

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Well, dear readers, I don’t know what a Vernal Equinox is, but yesterday was a Vernal Equinox and it was one of the most infuriating days of this year. The entire world was askew and akimbo, if you ask me. Frankly, I don’t care to see another Vernal Equinox for at least another year. It was a crazy day – it ranged from the good to the bad to the ugly. I didn’t know if I was coming or going and sometimes I didn’t even know if I was going or coming. For example, I got up. That was good. I went right to the postal office and shipped a humungous number of packages – luckily it was fairly empty there. I then came home and wrote a page. That was good. Then I did a few other things, then went to pick up my package from the mail place. Only the package wasn’t there. That was bad. The DHL man had been there, and he’d delivered four packages – none of which were mine. I was told that this nincompoop (poopmocnin, spelled backwards) did this sort of thing all the time. I got on the phone to DHL at one, and for five hours they attempted to contact the nincompoop, who simply refused to respond to their many, many calls. While this was going on, I wrote five more pages. That was good. Then I was told that I would definitely have the package, even if they had to deliver it to my home. Then I never heard another peep. I went off to deliver some CDs. Speaking of CDs, they never arrived. That was both bad and ugly. I’m now told they’ll be here in the morning, which probably means the afternoon, or maybe even the next day. Every day that it’s late I will deduct more money from whatever the bill is, because whenever I finally ship I’m going to ship via expedited service. Plus I will deduct some amount for the aggravation. If she doesn’t like it, it’s tough, and I’ll find someone else to do the CDs. I then came home, got a call from DHL saying the package would be here within twenty minutes. Ninety minutes later, it arrived, but by that time I was so annoyed, I wouldn’t even open it. It’s sitting here like so much fish – today maybe I’ll open it. Then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I received a letter in them mail saying it was time to migrate from Adelphia to Time Warner and roadrunner. The letter contained all the easy instructions on how to do so. Easy for whom is another story. I did the first part of it just fine. In fact, I got through most of step two. But step three, the migration step, was so full of things I didn’t understand or want to do (security downloads, etc – all for PCs and not Macs, although it didn’t state that clearly) that I finally called Time Warner and a nice gentleman basically told me that whatever I’d already done was enough. We set up the roadrunner page to be my Safari home page, and all my Adelphia mail was brought over just fine, as well as my secondary Adelphia address and its mail. I have to change the paypal address we use for Kritzerland, but I have a year to do it. So, beep beep, I’m now a roadrunner.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled The Blue Dahlia, which was a damned sight better than The Black Dahlia. The Blue Dahlia’s original screenplay is by Raymond Chandler, and the excellent cast features Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, the divoon Doris Dowling, Howard da Silva, William Bendix, Hugh Marlowe, and a lot of other fine character actors. It’s not a great film (it somehow should be better than it is), but it’s nicely directed by George Marshall, and I sort of enjoy it despite its weaknesses. The region 2 DVD has a decent if unexceptional transfer.

Well, beep beep, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below and hope that now that we’re now past the official Vernal Equinox that today will go down a lot smoother than yesterday.

Today is a curiously busy day for the likes of me. I have to get up fairly early so I can write at least three pages before I toddle off to a noon lunch meeting with Miss Alet Taylor. After the meeting, I’ll come home and IF the CDs have arrived, I’ll get them shipped out quickly. Then I have to toddle off to rehearse with Miss Joan Ryan, which will immediately be followed by a rehearsal with Miss Merissa Haddad, both rehearsals (four hours worth) taking place at the home environment of Mr. John Boswell. So, I won’t get home until about eight-thirty, and I’m sure I’ll be quite tired by that point.

Tomorrow, I’ll be able to concentrate on writing for most of the day, and then we’ll be taping a special radio show for The Brain From Planet X. I’ll be there, as will Mr. Kevin Spirtas and Mr. Cason Murphy, and perhaps even Mr. Benjamin Clark. I’m sure it will not only be wild and wooly but also wooly and wild.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write, meet, lunch, ship, rehearse, rehearse and then come home. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings as I ponder being a roadrunner (beep beep).

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