This should be in the list, but I needed an image for the post, so it all worked out in the end!

Vacations, as you all well know, generally mean coming back to a ton of backlogged work which invariably leaves you stressed out, overworked and in desperate need of a vacation. It’s fucked up if you think about it. Partly in an effort to keep that from happening and partly because I got a bit too distracted in the run up to the election and didn’t finish all the work I wanted to get done before I went to New York City, I ended up working a bit while I was there. The tactic worked somewhat, but not totally, and I still returned to a ton of emails waiting for me to do something with them and a big ol’ game of catchup to play.

I’m happy to report that I won that game and except for a few loose ends (Let’s face it, does anyone ever really have a completely empty inbox? No.) I am feeling like I am on top of things. One of the ways I got here was by setting aside a number of items I wanted to share with you gentle readers, and promising myself I would post on them later. But we know how that has gone in the past don’t we? I want to post all these items, but they just sit there in tabs on my Firefox taking up memory and making me feel like I have a ton of posts to get to. Then my blog sits fallow because I swear I am not going to post anything until I get those items out the way first. Invariably, I put them off “till I have time,” and finally, they become completely untimely or I forget what interested me about them in the first place.

Before we know it, weeks (or months) pass by and Zeke is my last reader (yet again) and he’s pestering me about being a quitter via email and IM.

So I thought I’d try a new tactic. I have a few things here I’d like to share with you that I’ve been saving up until I got the paying work under control. Instead of giving them each their own post, I’m just going to put them all together in a handy list of items I thought were worth posting over the past few days. Then I will move on and try to keep up on this blog and paying work in a more productive and less catchall fashion.

I hear you scoffing (ZEKE!). But you watch thanks to the wonders of Remember The Milk, I am a new man. I actually do get things done on time now.

But now, to the list!

• First up is the last item I found. Actually, it was sent to me by Dayna so I didn’t find it, but it’s the most interesting and entertaining, so I thought I’d put it at the top. The blog of Mick Feeble (aka Bob, the new guitar player in The Purrs who doesn’t know me from a hole in the wall even though he’s in a band with Dayna’s boyfriend) is just good. I just read a bunch of posts and added it to my Google Reader. You should too. (Oh, in an effort to help him really take advantage of “an experiment to see if proper blog titling will get lots of traffic,” I want to give a special link to his post on French Press technique. It’s about words AND links Bob. Click on that last link and give him a little thrill.
• Next, I think it’s my duty to share with you interesting and unique Star Wars ephemera when I come across it so please, enjoy this autobiography of Carrie Fisher. Most of it is not Star Wars related, but all of it is amusing and enlightening for those of us who never read Postcards From the Edge (Apparently Carrie Fisher told the world about her bipolar disorder in that book, according to Alexis).
• I’m a sucker for cheesy commercials from the 70s. When they come from Japan, all the better. When it’s Sammy Davis, Jr. selling alcohol by humming a made-up ditty, it makes the blog.
• Last but not least, we have an homage to shameless consumerism. And sustainability! An  all-organic-wood docking station for your Ipod. OOOOO. Pretty. Did you know my birthday is coming up?

Wow. Now that all those tabs are closed, Firefox is just humming along. Whopee!

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