As though I've had something better to do

I've been so absorbed in the money making/not making dilemma that I haven't been writing or reading or whatnot. Time instead spent figuring out my income tax, for example, which I owe lots of because I'm a contract worker.

So gauntlet picked up, I guess.

At this point, I'm so far behind I'll never get ahead, but in the interest of playing catch-up:

scalpel and merry
prankstering I could see
this was not a secret
conditioning for stopped
and left my leaving