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work.

I needed to go to the detroit office today because I am getting a new work laptop. (it is a new HP, but I do not know the specs because I have not had the chance to play with it... but it looks dope)

so I got up at the prescribed time to beat the downtown rush hour traffic (the drive really was not that bad) and I parked at the Joe Louis Arena Parking, because $5 for all day parking is dope, plus they have these shuttles that will drop you off in front of which ever building you need to go...

the catch is...

you need to get on the right shuttle.

but that is later... first comes the actual parking and getting out of the structure.

apparently they are doing some kind of renovation, because the sign that said exit lead me to a walk way that took my to the arena and not the sidewalk.

so after about ten minutes of walking around in the joe and in the parking lot structure, I found my way to where the shuttles were parked.

I see a sign that says comerica-fort, so I assume that it meant that it was going to comerica towers...

except for... not really.

it went to another comerica building downtown that was between fort and lafayette.

so I jump out at the first stop, and hike to the comerica towers.

it was a whole six blocks away!

can you believe that?

so I ended up showing up late for dropping off my laptop at the place where they exchange laptops.

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A grasshopper walks into a bar and sits down in front of the bar tender.

"Hey! We have a drink named after you!" the bar tender exclaims.

The grasshopper says, "You have a drink named 'Glenn?'"

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that is it. :-P

I have been stuck in the detroit office for the whole day, thinking that I would be able to connect to the network to which I need to connect,

but noooooo.

there is something going on over here where my clinet VPN does seem to be wokring on our office network...

figures.

all of this security.

first I talk about needing more, and now I am talking about how I cannot get work done because of it...

only if I knew anything about security.

maybe I will try to work that into my training plan...

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security (and medicine) is ironic.

we create all of these measures to combat a virus (of either variety) and all we get are stronger viruses.

one of these days, either viruses will stop trying to beat us or they will beat us.

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I have to download these forms so that I can work on them.

I missed a few last night.

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as far as I know my train of thought is more like a pogo stick of thought.

I keep bouncing around everywhere...

or maybe like a tether ball...

because it seems my mind is on a leash right now. how does one expand one's mind? that is to say, without using drugs?

but please take into account time factor.
one does not want oneself to burn out from over activity.

what is over activity?

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I was told that once you have kids then your stress level automatically jumps up into a new bracket that you have never seen.

kind of like getting married and jumping into a new tax bracket because your incomes are combined.

but I think they are trying to defer that "penalty" for the next few year...

do not ask me. ask my mom. she is smart like that.

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crazy sexy cool is definitely one of my all time favorite albums... albeit old. in five years, the cool kids will not even know who TLC is...

ask some of the kids graduating now, and they could not tell you who slick rick is, and they probably have no idea who the A-Team, or that megatron was actually a gun, or that herbie hancock put scratching on the map with rockit.

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I have not used my mp3 player on my pda in while... I did not have a laptop for the last couple of hours, so I sat around reading printouts and listening to the mp3 compilation I made over a year ago.

do you think that late-twentysomethings/thirtysomethings stop paying attention to pop culture because they are just to busy with things that have so much more weight to it? that and the fact that MTV does not seem to play videos anymore... at least nothing outside of TRL which plays the same five videos...

but that does not really matter to me right now, because I do not have cable...

hell, I barely get the local channels.

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I have rediscovered 3gforfree.com - I knew about it a while ago, but I stopped using it because I got bored with it, plus there was not that much content in it at the time...

now it has blown up and there are a million ringers, screensavers, and games... so I spent a good hour downloading to my phones capacity.

I got through all of the screensavers, but I am only at 'J' in the ringers...

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I just noticed that our office in detroit has about half the space that it used to have... before we used to have one and a half floors... now we have three-quarters of a floor... and to get to the bathroom you have to go all the way around the center cubes because they closed the wall that would have connected the side on which I am sitting with the side where the batch room is located...

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what songs do you associate with people? I have songs that automatically bring someone to mind...

what is your song? as in, the song by which you would like people to remember you?

I do not know myself... do you have a song for me? ony if you knew me you would...

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you know, people seem to like Jay-Z ringers, because there are a few screens full of his stuff... granted there are only 9 listed per screen but I have gone through about four or five now...

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I just realize that I associate smells with people... I think I could honestly identify people by their smells, that is if I know you well enough...

well enough to get close enough to smell you.

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my mp3 player is on random... shuffle...

kind of like my head right now...

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