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I'm hoping to make this a nightly ritual. I am usually online around this time and there are certain things I do.

For instance I have stopped hovering around the Long Suffering Wife and just watch TV until she gives up the box for the night. I then look up Comics Kingdom (the Oregon edition) fully aware that Dan's ex-wife hails from that state and I read: Amazing Spider-Man, Bliss, Brewster Rockit, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Funky Winkerbean, Mary Worth (she is addictive even though most the time I want to strangle her in her own self righteousness), The Phantom, Prince Valiant and finally Rex Morgan M.D. (huge crush on nurse now wife June--and yes I despise the kid). I have to wait for the Dayton Daily to read Pearels before Swine and we're done--though Marmaduke gets looked at occasionally as well as Dilbert but neither is a have to read.

Next up is a visit to the Atlas Archives - a site devoted to a comics company that lasted less then a year in 1975 and has been trying to make a comeback past year or so. They run a daily puzzle of comic book covers which normally takes me about 16-20 minutes to do depending if I recognize the cover or not and I often do. Last month being Christmas got to see some old Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer covers--a set I privately covet but he would so far on the back burner he'll never get finished let alone started.

After that I actually glance at Litnet just long enough to see if I have any mail or notices from a very long lost moderator. Hang in there Scher you're going to be moved up a notch any week now.

I check out any comcs news on icv2.com and newsrama. Grumble about upcoming DVD sets I can't afford from tvshowsondvd.com and then I go into phase two of my online time.

Solitaire mah jong gets played-badly-for about a half hour. I'll win one out of about 30-40 games and feel like I'm staving off dementia that way.

Some chatroom activity if I can find anyone I know which is hit and miss then off to bed.

Yesterday being the first I was off from AAA which is becoming all I live for lately. The merger/takeover is finally finished. My job is secure--for now--however they cut the call center personnel to weekdays 7 am to 7 pm with people in Kentucky taking calls afterwards. My blood pressure is back to being high again at 7:02 pm. The calltakers have been trained to takle the information as quickly as possible and it shows in lack of detail -oh let's say for instance what business parking are you in. A business sign is so much easier to see then an address and I can almost guarantee most workers at your friendly local McDonald's won't have a clue what their street adress is.

Oh well this is by way of easing back into blogland. As to literature I did finish reading online here The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as I am attempting to get through the Holmes canon ever so slow but surely. Mind you I started it about six months ago--sigh.