Three

I missed "Four."  I should have known I couldn't do ten straight.  Yesterday was busy.  Today will be too.  I probably won't have time to blog so I'm doing it now.  It's almost 1:30 in the morning, I was tossing and turning, and remembered I didn't write a blog before midnight.  I didn't have anything to say, then or now, but as I've said ad nauseum, that never seems to stop me.

And now it's after 1:30 and I can't get Blogger to load.  Oh well, I'll post this later today.  You oughtta be asleep now anyway.

But three days from now I'll be retired.  (And hopefully asleep.)

YOU HORSES GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

Five

I almost forgot.  (Me, forgettin' to blog.  Whoda thunkit?)  I got nothin' to say.  It's 4 o'clock now, I might not get this posted on time.  Oh well, I will by midnight.  (I hope.)

I've been blogging for 1019 day.  You'd think I'd come up with SOMETHING worth saying in that time.  Nope.  I scrolled all the way back to the first one.  Not a darned thing.

In that first one I did make a few obscure references to amuse myself.  I'm not sure whether anybody else got 'em or not.  I do notice that I assumed a morbid tone from the very beginning.

Okay, my usual publication time has come and gone.  I've been reading from the beginning.  (I skipped the movie review, and my two-part whine on identity theft.  There's only so much punishment I can take.)  I'm kind of surprised at the number of typos that slipped by me.  I didn't find the first 2 or three to be a total embarrassment, either.

Okay, I just went through the first 14.  Minus the three I admitted to skipping, that means I just read 11 of my own blog posts in their entirity.  What's wrong with me?

(Please, don't answer that last question.  We don't have the time.)

And I still don't have anything interesting to say, but five days from now I will be retired.

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!

Six

It's Monday morning.  I guess I'm going to have to get used to not going to work.  Maybe I'll blog instead.  I figure Monday will be a good day to blog about politics, or my post-retirement career.

Let's see, what subjects have I threatened to cover?  Religion, Politics, Freemasonry..., and of course I'll continue to be a smartass.  And whine a lot.  What else?

Technology, there's another subject.  I can do a lot of whining there.  For example, I have an iPhone 4.  (Yes, I know the 6 is out.)  I use an app from Chase to keep up with my bank account.  Recently I tried to check my balance, and was told I had to upgrade to the latest app.  That didn't bother me much, since it's a banking app and security is pretty important, but I couldn't upgrade the app until I upgraded iOS.

I really dislike iOS 7.  No, that's not true, I HATE iOS 7.  I don't understand why these technology vendors think it's a good idea to constantly change user interfaces.  Different is not the same as better.  Different is not even necessarily the same as new.

Oh well, that's the sort of whining you can look forward to.  Excited?  Me neither.

But I will be retired 6 days from now.

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!

Seven

It's Sunday.  A week from now I'll be retired.  (And it looks like I may have this posted at the usual time.)  If I start Writing multiple blogs, I think that on Sundays I'll blog about serious things.  Like Religion.  Or Masonry.

I may have mentioned somewhere along the way that I'm a Mason.  I have a card that says "Take a Good Look at YOURSELF * You're SomeBody's IMPRESSION Of MASONRY."  (I use it as a book mark in a "Masonic Lectures" booklet.  It's currently marking the Fellow Craft Lecture.  I should probably be studying that instead of writing this.)

In his first message to the membership, our newly installed Grand Master has said:  "You need to examine your reason(s) for becoming a Mason and how you live your life and practice the purpose and lessons of Masonry.... Others should see Masonry through you and how you act."

No pressure there....

In a way I regret ever mentioning it.  I want to be my usual smartass self in this blog.  But since I'm known to be a Mason, I have to give more consideration to what I say.  I'm not even sure expressions like "smartass" are appropriate.  But that's who I am.  Then, Masonry is a big part of who I am.  I couldn't be me in this blog if I left it out.  I think I've also mentioned that I'm pretty good at being a bad example.

There are two things we don't discuss in Lodge:  Religion and Politics.  As I said yesterday I'm looking forward to blogging about Religion and Politics.  We'll see how that works out.  Actually, the forbidden subjects would be more accurately described as SECTARIAN Religion and PARTISAN Politics, and the reason they are forbidden is their tendency to disrupt the peace and harmony of the Lodge.  As I say, we'll see.

Anyway, I will be retired in seven days.  YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!!

Eight

Okay, so much for posting this at 4:45 PM.  It's 11:20.  I never did think of anything interesting to say.  I was going to finish tomorrow's blog and set it to post at midnight.  Best laid plans ....

Last thing on Letterman.  I promise.  (Unless I start counting down to his retirement,  8 days from now.)  I can't even remember whether I watched him last night.  I don't think I did.  I won't watch tonight..., it's Saturday.

I have threatened to clean this thing up, archive the old stuff, maybe even correct some errors.  I'll try to do that when I retire.

Which will be in 8 days.

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!!!

Nine

I set yesterday's blog to post at 4:45 PM, but apparently while I fought to get the countdown widget to work it reverted to draft.  I clicked "Publish" around 10 PM, but it still said "4:45 PM" when my screen went blue.  Maybe it did publish on schedule and my screen wouldn't refresh.  

Then I started working on the first draft of this blog (at 10:23 PM) with every intention of setting it to post at 4:45.  It is now 8:12 PM.  Oh, well.

I did the first draft of this while watching Letterman.  I mentioned earlier that I used to be a fan.  I took about 10 years off, but I don't seem to have missed anything.  (Okay, Marty Short was pretty funny, but he always was.)  I just can't ignore Dave's left-wing slant any more.  Of course Colbert will be far worse, but I'll never know.  I may watch Dave until the end though, just for old times' sake.

When I was trying to get the widget to work yesterday, and didn't think I was going to, I did a Google image search for "Phil Donohue Countdown Calender," and couldn't find a single one.  Go figger.  When I search "phil donahue countdown calendar" I get 5 pictures: 1 of Dave, 1 of Dave with Bill Murray (go figger,) two guys I don't recognize and a Late Night with David Letterman logo.  (Remember Late Night was his old NBC show, but that's where he was when he did the countdown calendar.)

(Am I obsessing on this?)

When I break the search term into "phil donahue" "countdown calendar" I get a bunch of stuff, most of it ragging on George W. Bush.  There are also a lot of pictures of Charles Grodin, and one of Regis Philbin.  Ain't the interwebs great?

Maybe in 9 days I'll start counting down to Dave's retirement 103 days from now.  

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!!!!

The Countdown begins....

I can retire in ten days.

I'm going to try blogging daily until then.  Wish me luck.

Monday night I watched Letterman for about the fourth time in the last decade.  (I used to be a fan.)  I did laugh while Jack Hannah was on.  But during the top ten list, I was thinking about how it originated as a replacement for the Phil Donohue Countdown Calendar.  (I told you I used to be a fan.)

I'm in the same boat.  I've been wondering what I'll do when I don't have a retirement date to count down to.  I guess I'll think of something.

Once my retirement becomes official, I will no longer be restricted by civil service rules.  As I've said before, this is supposed to be my "smart ass" blog.  I'm thinking about starting other blogs for other purposes (religion and politics, for example.)  If I can pull of blogging ten days in a row, we'll see where that goes.

If I'm going to blog ten days in a row, I guess I should save something for tomorrow.

In case I didn't mention it, I can retire in 10 days.  Now you kids GET OFF MY LAWN!!!