Inside Darren

In the last few months, my readership has been steadily declining. What is the cause for this, you might ask? I believe it can be summed up in two words: Fewer posts. And what is the reason for this lack of posting? There are many factors:

1. I got married. This kinda threw a whole extra factor into my usual single-man’s schedule of regular video game playing, microwave food-eating, planning my own cult, and taking long baths while reading various classics of western literature. I also used to devote a good hour each night to blog-writing. Now I have other things occupying my schedule, like showering my wife with affection. (You know, this is one of those times when the spoken medium would have lent itself to a good joke, if I had paused a few seconds after the word “wife” in the sentence above. Alas, in writing, the joke cannot be conveyed)…

2. I got a new job. Working at a Viet-Thai restaurant is by no means hard labour, but it does mean a lot of hours on my feet with very little opportunity to sit down. Consequently, after walking home from work, I feel lazy. Too lazy to sit at the computer and churn out another interesting post. But not so lazy as to neglect showing affection to my wife (see number 1 above).

3. I’m losing storage space. My website is hosted by a free service that only provides a minimum of storage space for posts and pictures. Since I have an aesthetic policy of including a nice picture with every post, I only have enough space for maybe 4 or 5 more posts, before I’m forced to go with another hosting service. I’m currently in the middle of checking out a new host, and there’s a good chance that this site will be moved to a new address in the near future, but until that happens, I’m going to have to be careful about how much more I post here. I suppose I could stop putting up pictures with my posts, but then you wouldn’t be able to see as much of my beautiful wife (see number 1 above).

As far as what’s going on in my life lately, here are some highlights:

- Got the djembe: Been playing Abba songs on it. It sounds awesome.

- Made my own pad thai this week: Using a professional wok for the first time is like learning to drive standard - too many controls with a lot of potential for disaster.

- Need to take out the kitchen garbage: We’re currently hosting a fruit-fly colony.

- Trying to lose some weight: When you have to go an extra belt-notch, you know you have to start taking it seriously.

- Need more local friends: We can’t drive to Hamilton every time we have the urge for socialization.

- Fireflies: We saw some outside our balcony the other night. Who doesn’t like fireflies?!

- Cheap Chocolate: Food Basics has Caramilk bars on sale for $0.50. Makes wanting to lose weight a whole lot more difficult.

That’s it for now, boys and girls. I’ll try to squeeze in some more posting this week, and hopefully, I’ll have this blog moved over to www.darrenconley.com in the very near future…