Yeah: I took a month off. No real reason, except that there wasn't really a lot to mention, in general.

Not that there's a lot to mention now, either. But, after a month of downtime, I suppose a few things have happened.

In no particular order....

The whole dental thing is effectively finished now. For reference: I started getting stuff removed, replaced, implanted, and so on about six months ago. At this point, we're approximately finished, notwithstanding a few routine monthly appointments to ensure that nothing's being rejected. As much as I tend to reject things like bacteria and virids, the various precious metals used for the implants seem to be happy where they are now. So that's good news, I think.

Without any particular relation to anything dental, I also wandered in and got my hair cut a couple days ago. Which wouldn't be worth mentioning, except that it's the first time I've done that this century. Which is the reason I did it at all: my hair had got out to about two feet long and stopped; or, more likely, had kept growing invisibly, since it was trashed enough that it kept breaking off at the other end. Now, apart from dealing with the general Sampson's Syndrome of suddenly lacking much hair, things are all better. Incidentally, I did the same thing this time that I did last time, in the summer of 2000; the difference is that, this time, it's actually in style: that basic Sid Vicious look from about 1981. So, it's shorter, but still a death sentence for any employee of the Disney Store. I guess I can live with it.

Also, it grows back. They assured me of that. It might even count as a sort of warranty.

Which leads to the next unrelated thing. As of tomorrow [if I finish this in the next ten minutes, that won't be 'as of today'], it's been two years since the whole JestBuy mess got as close to conclusion as I suspect it ever will. Which I happened to notice today, for another unrelated reason; so I looked through the site as it was online, and through the backend where all the older, replaced stuff has been hiding for a couple years; then I updated the site to have links back to the older stuff: mostly the recorded calls to the various 'tards [I tend to call them jesters, in fact] who lied to me for the 2,475 hours I went without a laptop, merely because they're conclusive criminals. So, have a look at the site when you've got an hour to go through all the evidence; not only is it conclusive: it's actually pretty funny, if you're not me.

Speaking of links, which is as close to relation as this currently gets: I'm supposed to mention that Deophagy are running some sort of contest at the moment: their fanbase [after Corey started calling SlipKnot's fanbase 'maggots', I decided to start calling Deophagy's fanbase 'fodder'] can throw together potential logos or something, and then submit them. If someone wins the contest, something probably happens. I actually have no real idea what's going on with that, except for the obvious: that I'm in the band, own the URL, and still have no idea what's going on. Not that anyone out there seems to know.

At the risk of derailing the runaway train: the general idea was to invent this band, and then do nothing for a while. Just let it exist, kinda, and see what it did. To date, it seems to have developed a fanbase [people who have never heard any of the songs we've never recorded or even written] and, reportedly, led to people setting the band up for gigs, mostly in Denver. How the band are supposed to play a gig without having any songs, instruments, or members is anyone's guess. But: the train's a runaway now; so I'll just sit back and see where it manages to go.

Incidentally, when I'm done sitting here hearing how cool and popular this band has become, without any merit at all, the next phase will be to release the band's first disc: Greatest Hits. Because it's really, really goofy; and because, apparently, I can.

Also, everything I just wrote is technically untrue. Deophagy have kinda got a song...or something like a song...a recording...I'll start over on that one....

Deophagy have an .mp3 online: a somewhat mobied molestation of a recording I'd made of an idiot in the VoiceChat module of the chatroom. It's lurking over at http://www.deophagy.com/extras/Sex.mp3.

Other than that, nothing much is going on with the band, for the moment. At least, nothing I actually know about. Its merch is controlled by...um...whichever member of the band is actually Morphia [I'm not even sure who's who in this mythical thing anymore; I think I might be Balael, this week] so any sales for Deophagy shirts and stickers and stuff would be in his account, not mine. At least for the moment; I might get round to adding stuff to Wasted too, since, if the band did exist, I'd be in it, and I could grant me permission to do that. Probably. I'm not sure how the USPTO handles mythology, if they deal with it at all.

Nuts. I took too much time looking up all the links. It's tomorrow now, according to ZuluTime. Oh well.

More later....

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