Posts written today but not posted until now because they were on my laptop...

5:40 PM

I am now awaiting for pyschology to start, which is somehow completely and totally disinteresting to me...I would much rather be at work checking drawings than be here...unfortunately, I'll get my wish tonight but not until 9:30...which is only slightly tempered by the fact I can do it at home on the dining table. We're supposed to have a meeting a work to discuss what direction to take estimating after a bad year and major restructuring of the division...the first thing we need to fix is deadlines and understanding of what exactly we taking off...even if it's simple shit like what I'm checking. So needless to say now, but my day is ending on a sour note...I can only think of that quote from Office Space because it's so true... "Every day since I've started working is worse than day before, so you are seeing me on the worst day of life every day..."

hey, my day got marginally better...I didn't flag the quiz I took basically cold last wednesday after being sick and finding out that I'd have to ask someone for the notes (which I didn't because I don't know anyone)...4 out of 5 is more than adequate although I had no reason to miss the last one...ah, well, that's life...

psychology has started and I'm now wondering what I'm doing here...

12:00 PM

Here it is lunch and I have more work to do...it seems like that every time I stop to relax for two minutes, I just get further behind. I was actually reasonably productive last night and got homework done in spite of beer, tobacco, and The Simpsons.

Now I'm screwing around and writing a journal post instead of working on The History of Henry IV. It actually isn't too bad to read, I thought it would center so much on English history and obscure historically references (it does have a few) as to be too dense to really suck the reader in. However, it centers on the characters rather than the events and Falstaff is pretty good reading, if you can get over the constant sexual inneudo...

CDs I have been listening to (despite being hopelessly out of date, it seems))

Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
Warped Tour 2002 Compliation
Nirvana - Greatest Hits Collectors Edition (Between You Know You're Right and The Man Who Sold the World, I couldn't pass up this CD...I do wish Lake of Fire was on it, tho...)

I have about a dozen hulks of P166s in various state of disassembly in my garage...I keep mean to paw through them and screw together a linux server but I just didn't get to it this weekend...nor did I accomplish my goal of sleeping until noon and then watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday. I flipped it on at like quarter after 4 and found it was delayed for rain...it blows that they ended up declaring a winner after barely half the race, I would consider that a hollow victory if it happened to me, but, hey, a W is a W...although history will invariably have an asterick as the 2003 Daytona 500 being 1 of 3 Daytonas ended early due to rain...

NASCAR is BACK!!! Bring on Spring! And pox to those who don't appreciate the great american sport...fuck football, fuck basketball, and baseball's golden age is gone (like when ballplayers being paid 2 million dollars a year struck for being underpaid...humpf), the american sport is NASCAR...oh, how I wish it was like it was in the bad old days...with cheating galore, real cars, and horsepower wars...but hey, where else is good old american excess celebrated with such aplomb?

A moment of silence for the heyday of straight 8 Hudsons and other such forgotten beasts...