The Search for Intelligence

Gotta love it when your boss gives you a piece of legislation to read and it's all about things you can't talk about outside the office. Whee. Even more fun is when it comes with a 'cheat sheet' (explanations of provisions) that is only half as long as the original document. :-/

The task for today is to be more mindful about how I sit at work. I've been slouching too much of late.

Worship the iPod. :)

Leaden Hatred

The DC Water and Sewer Agency (a.k.a. "the organization that brought you ridiculously high lead rates in your drinking water") hates me.

Invited them to my comission meeting for Monday, no one showed.

Trying to invite them to another meeting now, no one is calling me back or answering the phone.

I am not amused.

If no one calls by Monday afternoon, I'm sicking my Councilmember on them.

Why we love the Onion

( Virulent Strain Of Soy Flu Traced To Single Tofurkey )

In Sickness and in Health

Finally broke down and took some sudafed this evening. Hopefully that will prevent the total loss of my voice. Pretty sure this is a spring cold, but the recent new use of the neti pot is somewhat suspect as well. One hopes that it is simply lack of practice and not that the beast is a cold-generator/agitator.

Ripped more CDs, read some more in my (recently repurchased) swimming book while lounging on the bed listening to the iPod itself whilst the CDs were being copied, occasionally hopping up to change discs. I switched from the 48x DVD rom drive to the 52x CDR drive and I'm finally getting faster speeds there (as in 4.3x-5.0x on the DVD and upwards of 7.3x on the CDR). I seem to remember some problem early on using the CDR, but that seems to have gone away.

Undecided on going to the gym tomorrow to swim as well as going Sunday or only going on Sunday. We'll see how I feel in the morning.