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I’ve gotten more done at work in the last 5 hours of late night coding/email frenzy than in the last month combined. It feels great.

Working half time sucks. That’s mostly what I’ve been doing while Angus is in his cast. It sucks because the half that you’re at work is in meetings, which leaves no time to do anything useful. But it’ll all be over soon. Whoopeeee!

My daughter Fred was raised to love Randy Johnson. When he wrecked his knee she kept asking if he was going to get better, and if he was doing alright. One night she even said, “Who’s starting tonight daddy?”

The plan has backfired, however, a casualty of modern baseball economics. Now she wants to see Randy Johnson all the time, but that’s not a viable option. My attempts to explain the situation haven’t worked very well, as she continues to ask daily when we’ll see him pitch again.

Tonight though the situation cracked me up. She’s just started a t-ball league, and on the way home from practice tonight she said, “Am I going to be traded?”

* Reply to this message telling me which of these 20 artists you have also seen.
* Take the ones from my list that you have seen, and post them in your own LJ.
* Add more until you have 20.

Aerosmith
Rush
Sting
Barenaked Ladies
Van Halen
Harry Connick, Jr
Stryper
John Tesh
Poison
White Lion
Bobby McFerrin
Lewis Black
Styx
Prince
Semisonic
Warrant
Andrew Dice Clay
Guns ‘n Roses
Soundgarden
Monster Magnet

As a recap since I haven’t posted it on here, our son broke his leg. He’s doing fine.

In fact, he’s learned to get around pretty well. For a visual of how he gets around with basically no legs, think of Terminator, Act III.

I have to go to traffic school tomorrow for a speeding ticket. That sucks. When I got the speeding ticket there were 4 other cops busting people left and right. That sucks. There must have been a dozen people busted in that revenue generating sink hole. That sucks. I get to spend $125 and 9 hours of my life on this stupid thing. That sucks. Driving school only takes a money order or cashier’s check, they don’t even accept cash. That sucks. My credit union used to offer one free cashier’s check, but now they charge $3. That sucks. When I asked if they used to be free the teller looked at me like I was insane because they roll through new cashiers on a weekly basis. That sucks.

I took my $125 over to 7-11, gave them $.99 for a money order, and was treated better and faster than at the bank. That didn’t suck.

Why don’t more cars have keys that you put in the dashboard? That’s a cool place to put a key.

From my George Carlin day calendar:

There’s an odd feeling you get when someone on the sidewalk moves slightly to avoid walking into you. It proves you exist. Your mere existance caused them to alter their path. It’s a nice feeling. After you die, no one has to get out of your way anymore.

For an interesting study of newtonian motion, watch how little baby poop particles swirl around the tub as it drains.

In my High School the calculator of choice was the TI 31, except for the one weirdo who used an HP with it’s RPN. I remember being so familiar with it that one day I decided to scrape off all the keys. It was study hall and I put it on the floor, stepped on it with my foot, and rubbed the face until it was devoid of any print.

All is right with the universe again. Spring Training baseball was on yesterday! Well, it’s almost right. The game was NYM – WSH, which will take some getting used to.