Song About Nuthin

Friday night all alone. Beer and some David Bowie music help with the bored and the lonely, but not all that much. I really need to move the rest of my music to my new computer. It's really not that new anymore, I've had it almost a year. Sometimes I think it would be better to live in an isolated cabin in the woods somewhere, then at least there's the chance of being kidnapped by aliens or something. On second thought, maybe that wouldn't be so great, who'd feed Emily and the birds? I need to go buy a weedeater this weekend. Hmm, why does the spellchecker suggest that instead of "weedeater" I might have meant to type "beefeater?" That kind of scares me. Perhaps it's just suggesting that I'm doing a yeoman's job with my blog type thingie here. I could live with that, as unlikely as it is. Freeform blogging, I think I might be on to something here. This is much more entertaining than trying to organize my thoughts into a (marginally) linear format. Format--that's another word I think is kinda strange. I suppose it makes sense, eytmologically (oooh, now that's a good word), coming from a root verb that means "fashion." Maybe the reason it seems weird is due to its evolution in usage. "Format" has gone from something of a jargonistic (I'm on a roll here) word that existed mostly in the vocabularies of secretaries, writers, and printers to an everyday word common in popular culture. It's a theory, anyway. I'd call it a hypothesis but then I'd feel obliged to investigate it further in a pointless attempt to prove or disprove it and that would just be silly. If there's one thing I don't want to be, it's silly. Absurd, sure, but not silly. That just isn't dignified.
Okay, out of a lack of anything better to do I've looked up the origins of "silly" and "absurd" and found something interesting (to me.) "Absurd" comes from the latin "absurdus," which means discordant or unreasonable. Very straightforward. Very dull. On the other hand, "silly" originally meant blessed. I didn't know that. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the meaning of "silly" has progressed from "blessed" to "pious" to "innocent" to "harmless" to "weak" to "feebleminded or foolish." That's either really fascinating or just silly.