“Stuck in sleep mode with black screen”

Is what my samsung 740n monitor has done (not recommended - this is a common problem) and hence the reason for my silence lately (well, that and being in mourning for Porter Wagoner, you all know I how I felt about the Wagonmaster.)

But I did manage to rouse myself from sleep mode to join Paul and Alex for a Porter memorial/bday lunch yesterday and we had a grand time. Naturally I brought along a bag of “I was going to throw these away, but I thought of you” things for Paul (why do I do that? Is it some kind of Boston-Filene’s basement thing?) and Alex and I had a few chuckles over the fact that when we first met, he was so drunk that he didn’t remember what I was wearing. Which makes me think of Ray Milland in “X, the Man with the X-ray Eyes,” one of my favorite movies as a kid:

“I like a man who looks urgent.”

I’ll be on vacation the rest of the week, heading to my little cabin in the sky, sans fires this year, then return to work and blogland next week. If the world hasn’t turned any more upside down than it already is. Oh, and my vote’s with Colbert.

PS. I am going to Springsteen tonite so you may hear from me before I leave town!