The World According To Chris Brewer

Chalk up my living the single life to not even paying any attention to the fact that today — er, yesterday, since it’s now 2:13 AM — was Valentine’s day.

While it means that yes, I didn’t have to spend any money that I don’t currently have on someone, it also means that I don’t have anyone to spend any money I don’t have on. Kinda sad when I think about it that way, but really honestly at second glance I am in no position to even remotely search for the love of my life at this point in time. I’ve got some stuff I need to work out first.

But time is growing short. Bear with me here as we calculate this together.

According to Table 27 of the CDC’s Chartbook For Trends in the Health of Americans, since I was born in the same era that made Prince a star and Olivia Newton John was getting physical with everyone, my life expectancy is 70.7 years.

70.7 years, let’s just round up to 71 to make this easier and more optimistic. So 71 years x 365 = 25,915 days to live.

My current age is 23 years and roughly 200 days. 23 x 365 + 200 = 8,595 days that I’ve already lived.

Now take that 25,915 days that I can be expected to be on this earth and figure that 8,595 of them are gone already and I’VE ALREADY LIVED 33.1 PERCENT OF MY LIFE WITHOUT HAVING FOUND THE RIGHT ONE FOR ME.

My situation is dire, and I will leave it at that.

On another note, have any of you ever seen the movie The Ringer? I find it quite hilarious and I must admit I am not with the times — I saw this movie for the first time a week ago.

I wish I could get a hug from Katherine Heigl about now. Sigh.

I had to drive out to Tulsa, Oklahoma today to pick up my mother from the airport. When flying to points west, it’s always cheaper to fly out of Tulsa (unless you get some insane deal) than Springfield. By at least $150.

So I drove the three hours and 181 miles west and encountered some more ice, but the main roadways were clear. It was full speed ahead.

Then I saw this right before I hit Vinita, Oklahoma, home of Dr. Phil:

That’s right, the sun made a nice little cameo appearance but it was kinda tough to enjoy it because the sun sets in the west and that’s the general direction I had to travel.

Mom called me while I was about 30 miles from Tulsa and told me her flight would be delayed until 8 PM. So I decided to take a detour and visit the Woodland Hills Mall, and more specifically, the Apple Store. I hadn’t been in an Apple Store since I worked at the one at Washington Square. I took a gander at, and tried out, the new MacBook Air. Stunning little thing, it is. But I don’t find it useful. It’s only pleasing to the eyes, and at this point I think it only serves as a prototype for the laptop of the future.

After my visit to the mall I headed out to the airport, which was only about 8 miles away, and waited there for Mom. Cris Birch called and we talked about his plans to get married soon. Dude’s only 20 and he’s beat me to marriage already. I’m a real chump.

I drove Mom back home and kinda scared her a bit when I decided to shortcut onto MO Hwy. 174, a very boring route into Republic that cuts off at least 15 minutes travel time. Mom spotted ice everywhere, I kept driving and got us home safe.

Now it’s bedtime.

Check this out. I snapped this off the tree in front of my house. This is insane.

And let’s see how much ice is on there compared to the size of my finger.

And it’s still coming down. Expected to until midnight. Tree branches have been snapping for the past half hour, including one in my backyard. House still intact, power is still on, and we’re having a wonderful time in the Spirit, as they say in church.

MANICOTTI TIME!!!! I’m gonna sit in on Jason W’s liveblog of Springfield City Council’s meeting tonight (nice job with the blogs by the way J).

They’ve been rattling off the list of school closures on KTTS for over two minutes now. It’s getting bad outside, we’ve got some massive thunder outside and the ice is already building up.

I pray we don’t lose power. I would hate to be without heat (and to a lesser extent, entertainment).

They’re also saying most of the roads are impassable and are urging people to stay home from work and call it a day already. And it’s only 9 minutes until 8 AM.

Okay, they just now got done with the list of school closings. That took them four minutes. Wow.

I may have to snap some photos later.