I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.

Did you miss me?

I doubt it. But here I am nonetheless.

And I will shortly be deserting you for the very nice weather that is currently gracing the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Sorry, kids. Iron hot. Striking. That sort of thing. The husband would like to have a conversation with one of his Cuban friends over at the lake (if you have no idea what I'm talking about know that the friend is not legal and he smokes quite nicely. If you can't figure it out from there, well...sorry) and I need to get outside and kill the creeping charlie that is profusely sprouting all over my flowerbeds. The junk that I have for creeping charlie demands that it have two days without rain to work. Since it finally appears as if we've got that with the weather forecast, well, this means you're screwed. Sorry. Life is occasionally like that.

I would like to thank my very nice guest bloggers, Robert and Sadie, for chiming in over the past couple of days. I hope you enjoyed their contributions---I know I did. Steve-o, I believe, was peeved that I did not allow him access to upload images, hence no participation. All I can say to him is that if you live by the sword, buddy, you'd better be prepared to die by it.

On the whole, I had a very nice few days off. I feel refreshed and probably will have a few things to say about this, that, or the other shortly. It was probably a good time for the blogmutes to settle in as I really did have "other things" to do. Which included some cleaning, some laundry and painting a sandwich board for the sidewalk outside the husband's new computer fixit shop. This meant coming up with my own stencils (thank you photoshop and acetate sheets!) and then hand-painting the letters in. Since I'm no Rembrandt, well, this took some time to get right. Hopefully this thing will bring in some customers. All I can really say is that I'm glad it will be leaving the premises tomorrow and I never have to look at it again.

As far as the archival transferral is concerned, well, that's an interesting thing. I asked the husband to help me out with it, and utilizing his high-level of logic, he decided it would simply be easier for him to do it rather than telling me how. Hmmmph. Go figure. Anyway, the reason you're not seeing almost two years worth of monthly archival listings over on the side is because he couldn't do it. He was able to package everything up according to MT's instructions, but as far as loading them onto the server, well...he couldn't do it. He didn't have the access to get them into the right spot, so he sent them to God Himself and hopefully they'll get uploaded sometime over the next couple of days. Keep your fingers crossed. In any case, since we have the archives elsewhere now, the old blogspot home has been BLOWED UP! Yep. That's right. I deleted it. It was a curious experience. I used to wait and wait and wait to upload a post to the blog yet the deletion of said blog took about three seconds...total. Hmmmm. Quite weird.

I don't quite know how I feel about this development. It's not really bothering me per se, but I do kind of feel like I've just blown up the trailer park from which I sprang forth. Every time I surfed over to the old home, well, I felt like poor white trash who'd gone off, got themselves edumacated, and went off into the big wide world only to come home and see the old homestead with a new pair of eyes---a new pair of eyes that thought the old homestead looked pretty damn shabby and simply couldn't understand how anyone could live like that. Which is a pretty snotty attitude to have, I gather, yet is one that I am completely unrepentant about holding. I'm spoiled rotten right now and I like it like that. Sue me.

Anyhoo, expect some posting after the sun goes down.

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Allrighty kids.

You'll undoubtedly have noticed that I haven't had much to say over the past couple of days. I have a serious case of the blogmutes settling in and instead of forcing you to suffer through it, I've decided to take the rest of the week off. There is no point in writing what, undoubtedly, would be crap just for the sake of keeping this thing up and running.

And besides, I've got other stuff to do. Around the house, and here, as well. I can no longer put one particular task off: I must transfer the archives from the old Blogspot home to this one. This task will take some time. Actually having to come up with content in the meanwhile? Well, that sort of puts a damper on getting the basics done.

I know. You're undoubtedly heartbroken, right? You, my devoted Cake Eater Readers, are afraid you will not know what to do with yourselves and are wondering if you're going to be forced to resort to surfing Asian Lesbian pr0n, like you did before you found The Cake Eater Chronicles.

Well, have no fear my children. I have lined up a few guest bloggers to entertain and enlighten you.

I may regret my choices later, but I am handing the keys to the kingdom over to my dear pals Robert and Steve, aka The Llamabutchers and to The Goddess of All Things Bloggy, and another dear pal,Sadie, who despite her busy schedule, has promised to drop by later this week. Between the three of them they should keep the lights running on this production and they should have a good time running amok in my playground while I'm away from the keyboard.

Besides, as an added bonus, this will be good for Mom. She tells me she never clicks over whenever I include a link. Which is a habit I'm trying to disabuse her of, but she does it nonetheless. I feel she's missing out on some good stuff, so, instead of forcing Mohammed to come to the mountain, well, I'm bringing the mountain to Mohammed.

{Kath checks pockets for her keys. Nope. Not there. She remembers that she handed them over already. She says, "good" and moves on to other things}

Have a great rest of the week, kids and I'll see you on Monday!

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1 I don't suppose you could links up at the same time to some of the aforedescribed Asian materials? Just in case we get bored while waiting? Just asking.

Posted by: RP at May 25, 2005 12:29 PM (LlPKh)

2 D'oh. That was "put links up".

Posted by: RP at May 25, 2005 12:30 PM (LlPKh)

3 Enjoy the breather dearie! I shudder to think what will come to pass in your absence

Posted by: silk at May 25, 2005 04:10 PM (KDoVK)

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Die trackback spammers, DIE!

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A few months ago, when I was sorting out how I felt about P.G. Wodehouse, I posted this bit linking to an article Hugh Laurie/Bertie Wooster had written a few years back. I also learned during this Wodehousian adventure in Googling that Laurie had also written a novel, The Gun Seller.

It seems as if the guy who plays Dr. House is a talented gentleman.

I finally was able to lay my hands on a copy through the library and I have to say, it's just a wonderful read. It is, truly, something very special, or maybe I just feel that way because it's right up my alley. Who knows? Anyway, I finished it last night and I'll be purchasing a copy when I finally have some spare coin for such things. I was curious about some of the reviews, however, because they seemed to think this book was a "spoof" or a "satire" on the spy-novel genre. I don't think so. It's a thriller with a sense of humor and to imply that Laurie was simply spoofing the genre really doesn't give him the credit he deserves.

Ah, anyway...there was one part of the book that had me chuckling more than usual and appreciating the author's cleverness, so I had to share it with you. If you're interested read on after the jump. more...

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1 Stephen Fry has also written several books worth reading. His autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, actually made me tear up. And his fiction can be quite wickedly funny.

Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at May 06, 2005 04:43 PM (XBUdh)

2 Hugh is a genius. We went to the same University (he was a few years before me) and I remember having the pleasure of meeting him and Stephen Fry (who played Jeeves) a couple of times. I recalled when they filmed 'J&W' in the USA - except it wasn't but took place in one of the London museums! Jolly nice chap and I was so chuffed to see his face on the screen when I arrived on these shores. A touch of home! /claimtofamemomentover

Posted by: Hugh Laurie at May 07, 2005 12:09 PM (ddzYA)

3 And I am a completed retard of a tool this morning. I woke up about 5 mins ago (give or take) and just typed Hugh Laurie in the name box on the last entry. Duh! I really shouldn't be allowed to surf at this time of day!

Posted by: Puffy at May 07, 2005 12:11 PM (ddzYA)

4 yeah, thanks for giving me a momentary heart attack there, Puff! Not like I suspect for one big fat, flaming moment that Hugh Laurie is a lurker here, but stranger things have happened. Fortunately, I saw the email address next and relief flooded. Phew. Don't do that again! That's very cool that you've met him. He seems like he'd be a decent guy to know. I can only think that meeting Stephen Fry would be intimidating as all hell. Probably a nice enough guy, but he seems to have one heck of a brain on him. People who are that smart scare me Then again, maybe I should be scared of you, having gone to Cambridge and all

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"I mean, seriously. Blog feuds are like watching Trekkies fight over who has the more authentic-looking rubberized Spock ears."

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