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[dexfarkin]

Yes, all the important people are back.



Not that my return is really anything like Doc Halladay's, but since I've been infecting friends into the cult that is Blue Jay's baseball, it's a good excuse to mention that the Doc had his appendix out three weeks ago, and came back to pitch last night, allowing no runs and striking out seven to notch his 100th career win. That is the very definition of 'nails'.

For those of you unaware or not sure about why my account has been reading as deleted for the last couple of weeks, an explaination in very brief.

UpdateEdit: I have finished the bid and submitted it! I am victorious! Bring me the finest bagels in all the land!"



Due to various issues and escalating stress, I decided to limit the crap and distractions going on in my life in order to focus on some specific things that needed doing. One of the things that had been especially bad for the three and a half weeks prior was LJ. Since I'm a weird complusive, I can't not check it if it's available, and since it was sucking away my will to live on a daily basis, I decided to use Disa's process and delete it for a couple of weeks to get clear of some things and get other things done.

Turns out that it was one of my few excellent choices this year, since in the last two weeks, I have been balls out at work to an insane level (which also had me working this weekend and every night on top of my days), I was sick for a solid week with a still unidentified stomach bug, and happened to be working on my largest fan project since the CBFFAs.

However, as of today, I have my major work project done (and a brand new one to obsess over, but I digress), the fan project nearly done, and other than my Typhiod Mary roommate giving me a slight cold, I am hale and healthy enough to drink too much again.

I apologize to anyone who might have thought this was an Audrey-esque 'Goodbye' and swanning off into the sunset. Mind you, everyone who was worried about that e-mailed me, so if you didn't e-mail, you deserve it. How about that, you unfeeling bastards? *grin*

So, what did I miss?

Comments

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

There seems to have been a huge kerfuffle here on LJ.

I was wondering why you had deleted, but completely understand your reasoning... LJ is like crack.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Well, I wrote Canadian fanfic. (In fact, it was in writing that specific entry that I realized or noticed that your journal was down because I had wanted to use as an example of a BNA.)

Since then, I got a nice note from the person who requested the fic, and another nice note from someone else who read it. I think that's very encouraging, don't you?

[alestar]

Oh man-- I thought maybe you had been deleted in the big incest purge. ;D

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I miss all the good stuff.

[maureenans.livejournal.com]

I worked too much...that's about it :)

welcome back :)

[deathpixie]

Yay Doc! Dammit, I knew I'd miss something good, but pub + no voice at all = exercise in futility and frustration.

And Kos had the cold too. Blame her. ;)

[ferox.livejournal.com]

Mmhalladay.

And that's unfeeling bitch, thank you. Even though I've kept most of my entries unlocked so you could keep updated when you got weak. Oh, maybe that's very thoughtful? Or coniving? Or. Is two-thirty too early to start drinking?

[pebblin.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Have you learned nothing? Have you forgotten to whom you are speaking?! Too early?! It's not about when to start-- it's knowing when to stop.

[ferox.livejournal.com]

I think you missed the part where I'm very sneakily asking his permission because I KNOW HE'LL SAY YES. Er. No. You know what I mean.

...is it August yet?

[pebblin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I must've missed allat. :)

And, no. Sadly. Just gotta hold on a little bit longer.

[qbmuses.livejournal.com]

Yay!

And I thought Canadians were immune to the Canadian Death Cooties (tm).

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I'm with Alestar -- coulda sworn you were swept away in the pedo-purge. (And to that end, you missed a minor sign of the apocalypse with me finding Warren Ellis eminently reasonable and tasteful on a matter involving perversity.)

Halladay's return was pretty cool (and so was the game time; Send 'Em Home Early Buehrle strikes again), but can't you teach people about real baseball? The kind without a DH?

And, finally, if you were going to go swanning off? It would not be with a whimper or a sigh and a strikethrough. It'd be with gold glitter and a full orchestra.

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

Oh hell no. If I leave, I'm burning the mother down behind me.

As for baseball, I'm an American League baby. I like the DH. However, I see your Mets are tearing it up, with Tom 'Big Nuts' Glavine and Billy 'Can Even Close Yo' Momma' Wagner. They have former Jays Green and Delgado, so there is a legitimate reason to like the team.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

... and they can beat the Yankees. Which, granted, doesn't have as high a level of difficulty as in years past, but the Yankees feel it more than, say, when Tampa does it. There's never a down side to embarrassing the Yankees.

Glavine's on the same pitching schedule as Jamie Moyer (and Randy Johnson when he's not too intimidated to come back to NY). It's Oldtimer's Night in the NL at least once a week. Especially with the way the Mets are going down to injury and forcing Julio (I Taught Methuselah How to Catch) Franco to play in the infield.

[pebblin.livejournal.com]

Baseball is boring as hell if you aren't there in person and drinking. And eating. But, congrats anyway. Handling your shit that soon after surgery is real shit. He womaned-up f'sho.

Per your disappearance: HAH! I wasn't worried, you queen. I knew you'd be back.

Per me: So, uh. You got couch space fo' a sista, just in case, come the Con? *cough*

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

I think I can make arrangements, although the apartment will be catted by then, so we'll have to stick you in the non-cat area.

[pebblin.livejournal.com]

Catted? What? Where's this new pussy comin' from?

[deathpixie]

That would be me, I'm afraid. I posted about it post-birthday - I'm getting two kittens, tonight, actually. Sorry. :( I'd wait until after Dexcon, only they're my birthday present and all. I'll try and keep them in my room during people time.

[pebblin.livejournal.com]

It'll be murder. Or, at least just a lot of kleenex. ;)

[medievaloracle.livejournal.com]

Well it's about damn time.

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

"How about that, you unfeeling bastards? *grin*"

Only my prostate is unfeeling...

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to the mad house, mate. :)

[hex-16.livejournal.com]

I continue to rock the $3.30 + R on PokerStars. I just missed the final table twice in as many weeks, a score of over $100 a pop. :)

[qodarkness.livejournal.com]

Erm. I didn't notice you'd gone. Does that make me a bad friend?

Probably because I have the opposite problem to you - when my life gets insanely busy (which so far all of 2007 has been) LJ gets reduced to minimum interaction.

I would have missed you if I'd noticed you were gone *g*.

I promise to make up for my bad friendness by buying you beer when I get to Toronto :)

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