My hat, is a very very fine hat

The headline has to be sung to the tune of Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to sound anything but arrogant.

So, as promised, here's a look at my new hat!

And from a different angle:

Hate it? I don't much care.

Maybe this is more your flavor: I also bought myself a kind of birthday present/necessity item (if you define necessity as the need to have like 100 of an item). A new tea cup.

It was the second one I picked out, after worrying that first one was too feminine. Tea stuff can be so girly sometimes. But this seemed masculine enough. Masculinish, at any rate, I suppose. And I like it; despite the fact that it appears to have, for no discernable reason, a Maple leafesque leaf on it. I'm familiar with tea leaves, and this one would be something I'm not all accustomed to seeing as a tea leaf. Maybe it is and I am just not aware. You can kinda see it above the large "a" on the cup. Its not the single, slender leaf that I usually associate as a tea leaf.

Anyway.

I haven't posted anything in a God-awful long time

The title pretty much sums it up. But in case you were wondering, "God-awful long time" is apparently defined as 14 days. 14!

I'm not exactly like J.D. Salinger in my disconnection from the world; but hey, I'm not exactly J.D. Salinger in my writing, either. And I'm not dead. So, basically, I'm not like J.D. Salinger any way. Other than that we are both males.

What have I been up to? Uh, wish I could remember. Work has been busy. And we tore out the floor in the kitchen and bathroom. That has taken large chunks of time that I wouldn't have spent blogging anyway, so that is a piss-poor excuse. Its mostly that first one, I guess.

Mundane.

Oh, and I'm tremendously saddened, actually saddened, that President Obama's health-care bill has passed. I do not think it is a good thing. I actually thought of blacking out this site for a day or two in... what, respect, protest, mourning? Mourning, I guess. I still might, though now it just seems silly.

It is now just 10 days to tea time!

Oh, and I got a hat! If you know me half-way decently, you might know that I have a thing about hats. And that my head is sufficiently large, shaven, and oddly shaped that most hats don't fit right. I'm not talking about baseball caps, I'm talking real hats here. Anyway, my sister in law found one that worked. I'll post pictures if I'm sufficiently up for embarrasment.