Today, every­body at work noticed that I sta­pled the sta­plers to the walls.

Also, today noth­ing is bro­ken.  My car had been in the shop since Sat­ur­day (a pre­vi­ous bad break pad instal­la­tion com­bined with a loose bat­tery cable–which I SWEAR I checked).  My phone/organizer had been bro­ken since Fri­day (shat­tered screen), and the replace­ment finally arrived.  I am glad to be able to drive myself around (and I am sure that Kate and BC are happy to not have to tote my ass around).  Com­bine the repairs with the new tires from two week­ends ago, and I have been drained of money.  Good thing the pay­check arrives tomorrow.

Thanks to Burningsky's post, I now have sev­eral Tom Leher songs stuck in my head and will have to locate the appro­pri­ate MP3s.  Thanks to Marmot's post, Meta_kate and I rented An Evening With Kevin Smith on DVD from Net­flix.  We both agree that it is darn good, and we both agree that the part with his wife and the ouchy could have been left out and we would have been just as happy with the DVDs, pos­si­bly even more so.

I was think­ing of writ­ing a ran­dom band name gen­er­a­tor using Markov Chains.  It would be a nifty lit­tle exer­cise in Objective-C pro­gram­ming.  Unfor­tu­nately, it looks like most of the band names are one or two, pos­si­bly three words long.  This does not make for good Markov Chain fod­der.  I may write an engine or library/bundle any­way, just to get the prac­tice.  That way, it will be prewrit­ten for the next time I think of incor­po­rat­ing it into something.

A thought occurs.  Most peo­ple know that I dis­like (or despise) Fry's Elec­tron­ics, the local com­puter super­store that mus­cled out Com­pUSA, which mus­cled out Soft­Ware­house, which mus­cled out the Laser Tag arena.  They have large signs posted out front that says pho­tog­ra­phy and film­ing video are pro­hib­ited while in the store.  So.…I thought it would be funny to go into the store and PRETEND to take pictures–putting the cam­era to my eye and squint­ing, but not actu­ally take the pic­tures.  It would be even more funny to pre­tend to take pic­tures of the secu­rity cam­eras they have installed in every aisle. 

Pump­kin ale is the best thing ever.  I got it on a whim, not know­ing whether it would be any good, based on Harry Pot­ter.  The kids in there drink pump­kin juice and but­ter beer, but for some rea­son my brain crossed the two.  When I saw the pump­kin ale at the store, I thought that was what they drank.  I thought I would try it to find out just how hor­ri­ble it was.  It turned out to be EXCELLENT!  Yeay!

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