It has been my experience that when you are waiting upon someone’s arrival who is not technically late but could get to you at any moment the best way to expedite that arrival is to start a blog post.

I think this mostly because doing the dishes, going to the bathroom and pulling out the vacuum haven’t worked.  So, basically, maybe blogging is not the BEST, but if it works then I’m not going to knock it.  Especially when this has been a month of blogging FAIL on my end.

So first I’m all “oh hai! I have a blog! I’m going to be writing in it again!”

And then I was all “wait, what day is it? Oh crap.  Behind on a project!”

And, um, I didn’t start writing again.

I don’t really have anything useful to add to the blogosphere right now at all but I felt guilty for neglecting this space again so. Here I am. Typing away. About nothing.  Look, it’s like a really bad episode of Seinfeld, right here on my blog! (Would now be a bad time to tell you that I was never a really big fan of Seinfeld and only watched because it happened to be on between other shows I wanted to watch?) (Does that destroy any of my uber-television-fan-geek cred?)

Here are some tidbits from the world of Snarke:

1.  In spite of reading Twitter over my shoulder when I open up Tweetdeck on my laptop and in spite of, on several occasions, yanking my phone out my hand so that he could read my Twitter stream, Will absolutely refuses to join Twitter himself.  I jokingly set up a @mrsnarke account for him a long time ago but he refuses to use it.  He refuses to set up his own account.  Why? Because “meh, it’s okay but its nothing I get excited over or think about.”  This, from the man who more than once has come home and before even saying hello has asked “anything good on Twitter today?’

2.  Remember how we were all financially borked (okay I didn’t actually spell it out beyond a few comments in my last post but for a while we were financially borked) and have just now finally gotten things back on track?  Well, last night we may or may not have very nearly bought iPhone 4s. Thank God Best Buy was out of them or we might have them right now.  We are still thinking about doing the upgrade when they get more in.  Why?  Because we have iPhone 3Gs and the latest service pack/upgrade thing has made this phone all but a fancily clad brick.  Nothing is working correctly or even at a semi-usable pace on these phones anymore.  They’re freezing up all the time and they’ve become more than a little bit irritating.  Yes they are still worlds better than the phones we had before these and we don’t want to go backwards but seriously.  At this point we’re pretty sure it’s worth the $400 ($200 per phone to upgrade with an extended contract) to get something that we can actually use.  What we’re torn on is whether or not we really want to stay with AT&T for another few years.  Verizon is supposed to get the phone in January but it’s bound to have some serious growing pains once everybody flocks to their network.  Plus, with the whole Verizon/Google being evil and trying to undermine net neutrality thing I’m not sure I want that company to get our money…though I guess AT&T is supporting it too so… who knows.  Is there a non-evil cell phone carrier out there with a kick ass phone that rivals or is better than the one I have now?

3. It’s hot.  I know, I know.  Portland’s 90s highs the last few days are nothing compared to wherever you are and it’s triple digit heat.  They aren’t even that bad compared to recent summers up here.  This summer has been absolutely the mildest summer I have lived through since I lived near San Francisco (where 70 is the end of the world hot).  For this summer, though, the high 90 degree temps the last few days make me feel like my brain is melting.  I’ve spent the last few days holed up in the bedroom with the air conditioner blasting away.  This is not going to help us save money on our electric bill.  Thankfully tomorrow its supposed to drop by somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 degrees so things will be more livable.  This kind of has me scared for how cold the winter might be but I guess we’ll take that as it comes (like we have another choice).

4.  I have finally started watching Dr. Who!  After W00tstock and the many Tardis jokes and seeing so many people talk about how awesome it is, I thought “hey, it’s on Watch Instantly, why not?”  and it is super fun.  I STILL think that the Daleks look like some primitive form of R2D2.  I know that they came first but seriously, look at the two.  How is R2D2 not at least inspired by the Daleks?

5.  PAX is in just a few weeks!  The schedule is finally up and I have to say that while I’m looking forward to the experience (having never been to a convention before) I’m a little afraid that I won’t be able to get a ton out of it.  I mean I’m not all that into gaming and this is a conference that is centered on it.  Will has been geeking out over the schedule and making notes about the panels he wants to attend.  There are a few that have caught my eye too (not the same ones because that would be too easy for us) but part of me just wants to wander around for the two days that we’re there and soak it in–get a feel for the thing and then try to plan for things maybe the next year if we decide to go back.  I’m sure that, if nothing else, it will be a great place to take photos and learn about stuff.

What else?

Oh! Yes! on Sunday I had Panda Kitchen for the first time in weeks and it was So! Tasty! NOM NOM NOM.

You would think that, after a two week absence on the blog, I’d have some wild and crazy tale of where I’ve been.  And I do! Oh how I do! Except, well, I don’t.

I don’t have any fancy excuses or tales of adventure.  My life is pretty boring.  So where have I been?

I spent the majority of the last two weeks working.  I worked like crazy.  Our finances this summer have been, for the most part, a clusterfrak of “we owe how much on that card?” and “wait, what’s overdrawn?” and “oh holy sh*t, how is the rent due in four days? Isn’t it still the sixth?”  I’ve been working like crazy fora couple of months now trying to keep up and it all came to a head during the last couple of weeks of July.  I won’t lie to you: it was pretty craptastic.  It felt (and still does but to a lesser extent) like every single conversation Will and I had was about money and our lack of it and why it was being spent on frivolities like food.

The good news is that now all of our bank accounts and credit cards are on track. I intend to keep them that way.  I did, after all, work fourteen hour days (also known as 20-30 page days) for weeks to get them there.

This past weekend Will had his annual WoWapalooza over in Bend with his friends from the game and I? Well, I worked on Friday and then I crashed.  I crashed hard core.  I rented half a dozen crappy chick flicks and spent all of Friday night, Saturday and most of Sunday lying on the couch and watching them.  I’m pretty sure my IQ probably dropped by a few points but it felt so good to just relax.

So now it is back to normal. I hope.  See you tomorrow!