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it's about 11:36pm - I have an 8:30am meeting, and I am about to go to sleep.

today I got semi-wasted in front of two managers... one who subsequently paid my tab...

how nice.

that's two days in the past week that I got free alcohol from someone to whom I report.

I guess that isn't such a big deal, but at least I have an excuse for my bad sean connery accent...

I believe the people around me called it an impersonation of someone impersonating sean connery...

it was funny..

my sean is terrible.

but I still laughed.

I heard that the speed of light could actually be slowing down.

that from the the moment of the inception of the universe, for less than an instant, the speed of light was almost infinite and has since slowed.

so I looked it up.

most of the sights I found were creationist sights, which from experience, I have found to be less than solid in regards to fact checking. Although I can appreciate the sentiment and enthusiasm, I would like to leave the science to the scientists.

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really quickly though, the ramifications of the speed of light slowing down could have huge implications on science and religion... the universe could really not be as old as we first believed, special relativity et al would need revision, creationist could really have something on evolutionists...

first of all, I don't think creation and evolution are mutually exclusive - there really is no frame of reference during the first five days in which God created everything up to man - I mean, no one was there but God, so who is to say what is God's time? Maybe that first day was five billion years, and then he went by the Earth's rotation after that...

whatever.

in any case...

so I found that perhaps light maybe isn't really slowing down at all, according to people at nasa... something about annihilation of particles from a black hole or something...

whatever.

the big bang and creationism are not mutually exclusive.

and special relativity is nothing more than tautology...

[and I'm not ashamed to say that I just learned that word - so I just felt like using it]

you know...

I just realized that I could probably go the whole day at work without even talking to anyone. It's strange, but I can actually communicate via e-mail and AIM much more efficiently if I only need a short bursts of information from the people involved. The client has made in painfully clear that they do not want us using the telephone because there is a ridiculous code that one must punch to get an outside line that isn't toll free.

REE-DIC-YOU-LUS

by the time I find the code and punch it in, I could have fired off three e-mails, an IM, gotten a response, and been back working.

most of the time, if I need to call someone, I'll just use my cell, because I don't want to have to mess with the stupid dial out code. Plus, my cell phone plan has more than enough minutes for me not to care about using them at work...

[pausing to take a phone call]

so there goes my attempt to not talk to anyone today.

a plan ruined in its inception.

normally, no one calls me or asks me questions because I usually just spin out what they need through e-mails and IM...

but I see the merit of actual phone calls...

sometimes it is much easier and faster to talk to the person if the issue is more complex.

most of the time though, issues calls are resolved by the person doing the talking because the person who is called is just there as a listener for the person doing the talking, and if the person doing the talking would just take two seconds to think about what they were asking they would not have needed to call the listener in the first place...

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I'm getting coffee... maybe then I'll be able to focus on something worth my salary... something productive... productive words...

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words like violence...

not that they so much direct my life, but they sure do keep me busy...

not to mention taking up most of my time.

this entire weekend I felt very lazy.

very unmotivated.

I think it was probably the result of several weeks of flurried activity, although one would not come to that conclusion by reading this blog...

whatever the case, I barely made time to mow the lawn this weekend - what, with all the vegging-out I did, it was amazing that task was even on the radar.

I think vacations are, really, the time-that-you-didn't-have-during-the-time-you-were-working-to-do-the-things-that-needed-to-be-done-at-the-time-you-were-working-but-since-you-were-working-you-couldn't-do-it-then-so-you-must-do-it-during-you-vacation-which-means-that-you-will-need-a-vacation-from-your-vacation-to-do-absolutly-nothing-to-recover-from-the-vacation-that-wasn't-truly-a-vacation-so-much-as-it-was-time-that-you-didn't-have-to-work.

I have several to do lists, in the form of text files - probably scattered over three different computers and a pda.

I must find time to consolidate these lists so that there is a single master to-do list which will be managed at one point - probably my pda - so that it will always be available.

here's the problem.

out of site out of mind...

I do much better when I have a huge dry erase board in front of me... staring me in the face...

when it is on my pda, it is usually in my pocket...

and I forget about it.

that's what happens...

I should make that my next to-do...

to look at my to-do list on my pda...

to do what I am supposed to do when I am supposed to do it....

bap-bara-bap-bap-bap-bap-bampa todo todo

bleh...

modays...

yeech.

of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. -ozzy osbourne

I think I might actually know what that feels like.

today. I flew into dulles...

I completely forgot that I was flying into dulles.

I really hope that I remember that I am now flying out of dulles as well.

it would suck for me to drive to the wrong airport and then miss my flight.

I'm tired.

I'm hungry.

I miss my wife.

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what the heck am I supposed to be doing today?