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So apparently my problem is A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. Let me explain. I have been making an attempt to blog something at least every other day. Last week, I hit a stride where I was posting every DAY. It felt pretty good. Yesterday comes and I have this great post planned out. It was random crap and I notice that I'm doing more of those lately so I created a new category for it. Well, I had a question and hit the help menu on my publishing platform only to get a 404 error. This kinda pissed me off! I did some detective work and saw that somehow the help documentation didn't get downloaded when I initially installed the system. So I immediately start a search and rescue mission to see if I didn't just put it in the wrong place. I didn't. It looked like I didn't have it anywhere so I got on the website of the provider to see if the file was downloadable. While there I remembered (mainly because I ran across a page that mentioned it) that my publishing platform had an upgrade that I needed to install. So off I go, downloading, unzipping and trying to remember how I did the last upgrade. I mean there are over 1300 files in the upgrade and I don't wanna replace them manually. I'm a busy man, I have a post to write for you fabulous people after all. What do they say? When in doubt, read the instructions. So I'm reading the installation instructions to see if I can't figure it out and flipping back and forth between windows and realize that one of my plugins isn't working anymore. So I do some investigation and can't find anything wrong. I guess it just doesn't work with the upgrade (the last upgrade. I still haven't figured out how to install the latest upgrade yet.) So I'm surfing the plugin library and dicking around in my publisher to see if I can get it to work or at least add some more "gee whiz" shit to improve my blog when a window pops up that says McAfee has found a suspicious file and I should run a scan. I run the scan and while that is going on I remember that I wanted to get a registry cleaner to take care of some maintenance on the laptop. Off I go to google some free registry cleaners, which reminded me of an article I had read by a computer columnist that made some recommendations on this very subject! I finally found the article and she had links to all the recomendations so I downloaded a bunch of them. I ran those scans and got my registry shit cleaned up a bit and was happy about that. So I decided to utilize my free music downloads from Walmart for buying 12-packs of Coke products. (two songs per 12 pack and I had four 12 packs in the garage. Shit that's almost a CD ya'll!) Of course that involves downloading and installing yet another program. I am doing that and at the same time trying to do some organization of my files. See I have this 160 gig hard drive that I use for storage and hadn't organized anything in a while. I finally got that taken care of and was pretty happy. In the midst of all this, I inadvertently open up my browser which is open to my Bloglines page. (It's a great service. If you surf a lot of blogs, it would be worth looking into.). Well damn! I see some of you have posted and I start reading. Reading leads to following links and before I know it, I'm thinking about entering a photo contest I saw by following one of the links. My ass is asleep ( you laugh but literally ... my gluteus maximus is tingling) so I get up, grab the tripod, fire up the camera and embark on a quest for some awesome macro photographs that will win me millions of dollars and allow me to quit work and blog full time and get little Timmy that operation he needs so badly. (The top pic is one of them. See the continuation for more pics.) I'm taking pictures and my computer lets me know that Adaware has finished its scan. I give up the photograhy and get back down to the computer. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up surfing again and following more links and just happen to realize that it's awful quiet in the house. I look up at the clock and then back down at the screen. I see I've been surfing porn for the past hour or so and never commented on the posts I read. SHIT! I go back and comment on some of them. The original virus scan finally finishes and tells me the suspicious file is ... (are you ready?) freaking Limewire. All that worry for nothing. Of course by the time I remembered my original plan was to post a brilliant post that would keep you laughing and talking around the water cooler all week, It was 3 a.m. and I forgot what the fuck I was going to blog about anyway. I decided to call it a night and head to bed. So you tell me ... A.D.D. or A.D.H.D or am I just nucking futz? I know what I'd put my money on if I were a betting man. Today is another day though and it's a good one so far. Yesterday's rain turned into today's sunshine and much cooler weather. So far, I've made an orange cheesecake from scratch, the Houston Texans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars and most importantly of all, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Philadelphia Eagles! Life is good. Now I'm off to see if my kid knows a kid who knows someone that can get me some cheap Ritalin. How was your weekend?