Words I Nominate for Re-consideration: Prosaic

Why does the word prosaic have to mean "unimaginative" or even just "matter-of-fact"? It doesn't sound like it should mean that at all. It sounds flowery, maybe because in saying it you hint at the word "rose", and it ends in "-aic" which always makes me think of something Greek, curlicued, with a lot of parts to look at.

It sounds like it could be complimentary and insulting at the same time. This property is actually outside of the meaning of the word, as in my mind it should actually mean "overwrought, gaudy, or ostentatious". Like a baby blue moped covered in orange fleur de lis, or a gold bar which has been silver plated and covered with diamonds which spell out "GOLD BAR INSIDE".

I suggest everyone start using prosaic the way it was meant to be. Do it enough, especially around people who don't know the meaning anyway, and in time my meaning will become the meaning. Ahh yeah. I'm waiting.

I'm restless, but not without rest

Well January officially sucked in a lot of ways. Lost my job, power went out, furnace froze up, and I got a brick through my car window. I can only hope this is a month-to-month level of suck and not an indicator for the year as a whole.

Ah February, when the honeymoon of a job-free day begins to wear off and you start to run around like a mouse in a humane trap. Oh did I mention I caught a mouse in a humane trap? He kept coming into the conure room through a little gap by the heat vent to grab bits of food they had dropped/thrown onto the floor.

Finally got him by putting a trap right under the gap and I guess he just fell right into it. Drove him out to a field and let him run free. Though now we have another one (or the same one found his way back) in our bedroom, so he must be dealt with as well.

Well, at least it gives me something to do during the day. Not that I have nothing to do, there are tons of things to do around the house. Cleaning, laundry, dishes, tiling, all that exciting stuff. Yet at the end of the day, which is usually around 8 or 9pm, I still feel like I should be doing something. Which is why I'm doing this.

Don't feel like drawing or coding. I'd like to work on my 3D board game, but I need some plans for that, which I might work on tonight. Oh and we got a dart board, so that's been put to use as well. Man, this is pretty engaging.

If you're still reading this, I'm sorry, my fingers are kind of just typing everything that's running through my head at the moment. I need a shave. I like the jeans I'm wearing, glad I did laundry today. I taught myself to play the intro to "Down on the Corner" by CCR last night, so I'm pretty proud of that.

Also, it's really hard to play Hall & Oates songs recognizably on the guitar. I could only get "Your Kiss is on My List" to sound close. Hey, do you ever sniffle and it sounds just like the opening to "Insane in the Membrane", and then you try to replicate it and it just sounds like a sniffle again?

Wait a second...I just listened to both "Insane in the Membrane" and "Jump Around"...they both use that same sound, one's just higher than the other.

Surprisingly Bored

I was searching YouTube a few minutes ago, you know, to find videos of cats falling asleep, when I noticed in the search results that lately it's becoming difficult to find videos that no one has seen before.

I don't mean ones that have less than a hundred or so views, I mean nobody. Zero. Not even the people who uploaded them.

Well, I found one, and it's as exciting as you probably think a video that has been shunned by its creator would be.

The only upside to the video is that the bit of dialogue at the end could be used by a DJ somewhere as the intro to a great mix.

But why even show a crap video with no redeeming value? Because I think floating around out there is a non-crap video with some redeeming value which no one has seen. And it's fun to have something to look for when you're bored.