Entry 99 and Civil War Reenactments

Wow, entry 99 snuck up on me like an Aborigine hunter-gatherer. To be honest, I have misgivings about even doing an entry 99. It's pretty much just there to take up space before 100. Knowing that, you're stepping into a bowl of trouble stew if you decide to burden yourself with entry 99. It has no confidence because all anyone cares about now is entry 100. We look right past 99, and it knows this. And so you let it into your site and it does nothing but weep and eat all your baby carrots. Finally, you manage to calm entry 99 down, only for it to make an awkward pass at you during a quiet moment. I'm not having any of this, 99. You're on your best behavior or you get thrown out on your ass. Don't give me any of that "I got nowhere else to go!" crap either.

So, yes, this is entry 99. Tomorrow, entry 100 featuring BFS, the event that the shamans have been predicting for centuries. And since I'm having a little bit of a problem with this here entry, I will share with you some random crap.

Last week, someone asked me what I did for fun after work. For years, I had a standard answer for that question: "I spend most nights reading the Bible by candlelight." But now with this site, I feel like I should talk about it whenever I'm having one of these conversations, since I devote a lot of time to obsessing over this crap. However, have you ever actually had a conversation with someone about their personal website? It's like talking to a crazy cat lady about her "babies". I do not want to be one of these people.

At the same time, I think goulash deserves some props because I really like what I do here. I don't want to be ashamed of something that I take a lot of pride in. So, I decided on the spot that I'd come up with code talk I could use whenever I wanted to talk about goulash without talking about goulash. I told the guy I did Civil War Reenactments, since that's probably about the same lameness level as someone with a personal site. I said I devoted like an hour to it every day, I talked on the reenactment message boards, and I was having a big reenactment party on the 22nd. He was terrified by the intensity of my devotion to reenacting, but sometimes, that's the way it has to be.

I'll still talk goulash with the inner circle, but here's how it works with everyone else: if I'm talking about Civil War Reenactments, I'm actually talking about goulash. However, if I'm talking about goulash, I'm talking about the Civil War. If I'm talking about eating goulash during the Civil War, I'm talking about the Paris Hilton sex tape. And if I'm talking about a civil war in which the two opposing forces are fighting each other solely with poisoned goulash, I'm talking about what a farce the United Nations is. Are we clear on this? Prepare yourself for tomorrow night, peeps!

Posted by Cody at November 16, 2003 6:40 PM