Where have I been? What have I been doing? What is new with me? Am I still alive? How are the boys? How’s the love-life? How’s the family? How’s the job? Seen any good movies lately? Take in any good shows? Dine anywhere I would want to go? Take any cool photos recently? Read any good books? Ya dead man?

I know I have not been around lately but there is a very good reason for that. For the last few months I have taken the time on my days off to be with a special someone. For whatever reason I felt that being with her was more important than writing. I took the time with full intent to return to the blogging when the two would not conflict.  Now that her schedule is back in session and I am off when she is at work, I can, once again, enlighten the world to my skewed point of view.

As to the list of questions above, here is the quick response:

I’ve been in Las Vegas doing not doing much of anything. New is the list of pills I have to ingest on a daily basis. Well, yes I am… otherwise why would I be taking all those pills? The boys are fine and growing up fast. Excellent, when it is happening. Don’t know, seems the rest of my extended family has forgotten about me. Boring but paying for living. Yeah, I would recommend “The Night Listener” for a good flick with an excellent cast and good performances. The last performance I saw was Phantom of the Opera, the Las Vegas Spectacular and it was excellent, especially if you have not seen a Broadway performance of POTO. Same night as the POTO I ate at Pinot Brassiere and was very happy so I can highly recommend Pinot. Man it has been hot here, so no I have not gotten out since that last long trip in June. Yeah, pick up a copy of “Confessions of a Street Addict” by JJ Cramer, it’s wild. Ja man, ‘m dead…

Oh but there have been time that I have wanted t sit down and write. Some of the topics I wanted to cover are: The Jon Benet Ramsey case, Joe Lieberman, Iraq and Iran, Tipping in Las Vegas, Rude Cabbies, Cultural Disrespect for Property, Parental Responsibility (Is there such thing as too much?), Drug Side Effects, Have We Been Visited?, Horny at the Wrong Time, Getting It all Together, and more. In fact I have started some of these, but I was just not inclined to finish them immediately. Then something would come up and again I was put off from publishing.

For me I need some time to write. I require an environment that will not distract me from the writing with comforts and such. I need to be left alone for a while. I need time to compose my thoughts and usually that can be accomplished outside of the house in either a bar, restaurant, or coffee shop. If the shop has a place to plug in, great, if I can smoke, even better. Best of all worlds is a spot that has free WiFi so that I can get on the net to do research and find pictures if I need. Also, with a hot spot I can post faster and get the post out of the way and move on. Alas, the last good spot I found for my writing is now off limits to me.

Why I hear you cry? Because they fed me a burger with something hard in it and I broke a tooth. When I asked for their insurance information I then became persona non grata, even after they turned down my claim. Since I was not willing to search through my feces for the tooth fragment and the hard shard, I will have to pay for my tooth repair and loose a favored writing venue. Sometimes life sucks.

So here I am in yet another restaurant, having breakfast, writing and not finding a WiFi connection I can hump off, not to mention there are no power sockets for me to plug into conveniently and no smoking. Looks like the Frog will become a hang once again but they do not open until 11am and I like to work in the mornings. I will have to figure out a way of working, move and then continue. What a distraction.

It has been a while, looks like I’m back again.