So I'm going on 3 months since being laid off, and pulling my hair out trying to keep my mind in shape. I'm reading like 10 books at once, trying to catch up on my game cube playing, and applying to jobs by the dozens. I'm kinda stuck in between the "just qualified enough" and "overqualified" levels for most gigs, although I've gotten some bites.
Anyway, I discovered Jenga XTreme, or rather, discovered that it was like 60% off, and I figured, if nothing else, it's 54 parallelepipeds for $8. I'm a sucker for 120 degree angles.
Since I'm at least as obsessive as I am lazy, I've been writing down all the words I come across whose meanings aren't clear to me, or that are used in a sense I don't recognize. They say most people's vocabulary stops growing at 22 or so, so I figure I'll keep at it and maybe sound educated even when I'm senile. Judging by my parents and grandparents, this will happen around age 26 for me, and I just turned 24.
I don't want to keep my reader(s) in suspense any longer, so here in all its return-delimited glory, is my list (as of yesterday):
I tried to write a macro in Excel to look up all of them and put the definitions in the next column over, but then just gave up and alt-clicked on all the words to use the English dictionary. Then I fixed it using CONCATENATE and the simple URL syntax from Merriam-Webster.
Well I'll be; this Blogger deal is smarter than I gave it credit for. Looks like it interpreted my range of cells as a table. I can feel the power swelling within me.
Anyway, I intend to use this as a place to dump those thoughts that would be unwise to inflict upon people in casual conversation, or, more likely, the ones that I'd like to inflict on them but have trouble finding listeners for.
Might as well try to paste a link while I'm at it. Jenga XTreme
That ought take you there when clicked upon.
We need to come up with some synonyms for click, b/c it's kinda overused on the web. I guess a right click could be a clack, maybe. But that won't solve the problem I'm starting with.
If anyone is interested, I'm gonna post my listing on match.com (no endorsement implied (for the site, that is, I'm plugging myself shamelessly here)). Since the Match people are stingy with their access, I'm just gonna use a pdf file and save everybody the trouble of logging in and trying to search for me (or of having to lie about your gender or orientation to get to it). It's all accurate, although not up to date. The pictures are old, but that's OK, since I look better now. I'll put pictures on here later if the mood strikes me.
OK, so I'm a moron. Blogger doesn't host photos, or PDF files for that matter. Time to call the alumni people and tell them I want my webpage. I certainly paid for it.
Later
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