Yes, it may seem like I've been away for a long time, but that's because I've been travelling. More details soon. I am trying to build your enthusiasm for coming back and reading more, after my (gulp) 3-year hiatus.

no i'm not dead. yes i know you don't care.

still kicking. so much for motivation.

i'm going to try to be motivated to post here again more often. i know the template has been broken forever so finally i just replaced it...need to resuscitate some of the missing links.

i'm alive.

work the last couple of days has been kind of exasperating and frustrating. yesterday i spent most of the day working with our junior developer solving some build problems he was having. i'm afraid i'm not a good mentor. i'm too impatient. i can't stand stupid people. i know that's mean and probably a lot of people consider me stupid too but geez...most of the stuff we're doing isn't rocket science. maybe it's not exactly trivial but it's definitely not rocket science. it always amazes me how many people have poor problem solving skills. people will take a cursory glance at an error message and will go off on some completely unrelated tangent or they'll do some kind of a test that has no hope whatsoever of narrowing down what could be causing the problem. at times like this the song "here's your sign" by jeff foxworthy, travis tritt and bill engvall is a comfort. ;)

today was stressful for a different reason though. i was in pretty much an all day meeting. this wasn't a planned meeting. it was one of those impromptu things that came up when the scope on our project started getting out of control. meetings are no fun anymore. it used to be i could sit back and just listen (at my old job) now i'm looked to for guidance and for my opinion on how things should be designed.

gotta go...more later...

this place is suffering from a dearth of goods that can be readily turned into something edible. what to do? i don't feel like going outside (the weather is miserable) and i don't feel like ordering in pizza. how shall i ever survive. survival in modern times is so difficult. (i'm not being sarcastic...no not at all.)

woke up with a sore throat. spent most of the day in bed. oh the excitement.

survived yesterday's halloween festivities (actually i stayed at home despite having the option of attending a party -- i was feeling anti-social) and the blue moon.

i need to send this to my roommate. not that i'm never guilty of being a little lazy myself but my roommate has been bad for piling dirty dishes and cups on his computer desk and leaving food wrappers on the kitchen counter all the time lately. we have a dishwasher so there's even less room for excuses. when it comes to kitchen utensils and containers my motto is: if it can't be washed in the dishwasher don't buy it. another note to self: must take tours in London more seriously. mom and roommate need to be diverted, entertained.

ok so it has been awhile again. i'm tired of talking about war; about anthrax; about myself and talking about the weather just doesn't look like a reasonable alternative at the moment.

if compromising is such a good thing why is being found in a compromising position such a bad thing? just something that rattled through my bored little mind.

did you know that the bbc may have had no small part in the taliban's decision not to ban the radio? read about it here. thought provoking.

if there ever was a good time to be a postal worker now is definitely not it.