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I’m taking the day off work tomorrow – it’s a sick day, but I actually took a vacation day because I’ve got more vacation days than sick days. Follow?

I’m about to take NyQuil, so I’ll be asleep ‘ere long, but since I’ll be home tomorrow, I thought I’d take a stab at liveblogging. That means exactly what it sounds like it means: I’ll be blogging all the minutiae of my day throughout the day. It’ll be one entry that keeps getting updated, and I apologize in advance to anyone who follows the site with an RSS reader – I’m sure this will mess it all kinds of up.

So tune in tomorrow if you want to know just exactly what time I hack up a lung or feed the kitties.

I knew it was too good to last. I’ve gone from having no neighbors to apparently having 1,000 of them. I’m not sure how they’re fitting all of those people in the apartments next to mine, but I know exactly how those people are getting from wherever they go during the day to back here: in one of the 8,000 cars parked in front of my apartment.

Seriously, if I get back later than, oh, say, 7 p.m.? No place to park at all. Up until last week I could choose any of about ten spaces, and now? Nothing. I’m parking in front of apartments I didn’t even know were apartments.

Grrrrrr.

Funny thing is, this is what it’s taken for me to start seriously thinking about buying a house. A lack of parking. That’s what it took. Even in my frustrations there’s a quirk factor that can barely be believed.

I don’t know if this is the sort of thing a person ought to mention on their blog or not. I worry a lot about appropriateness, if you hadn’t noticed. I like for people to have a pleasant experience when they show up here, and I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.

But this seems like kind of a big deal, so I thought I’d chance it.

I’m not even sure how to put this, so I guess… well, I guess I’ll just say it like this, separately spaced, centered, and bolded:

It’s taken me some time to come to this point, but I’m finally ready to announce it. Sure, it might not mean much to some of you – most of you, even – but for a select few, it might put a spring in your step, a gleam in your eye, or a flutter in your heart. To those select few I say this: contact me. My email address is in the upper-left corner, the comments section is open – I’ll even give you my phone number if you want. Just give me a holler.

We’ll have fun, I promise you. Oh, there’ll be rough times, but if we work through them, we’ll come out on the other side of them a better team, more prepared for the next challenges. But if you’re up for it, so am I. With enough work, maybe we’ll eventually be able to take a crack at something a little scary, very difficult, but ultimately rewarding: “Freebird” on Expert.

Considering I’m just now starting to try songs on Hard, it might take a while. But if you’re available to work on it, I am, too. So if you wanna play some Guitar Hero until your fingers fall off, give me a holler.

I’m totally available. For playing Guitar Hero.