Labeled floors rule.

Not sure I want to put it there.

Does America look different?

Maybe better lit.

Even better.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

If you have to go anywhere and get 5 hours of sleep to go to a bunch of meetings, this is a good way to wake up.

My office is in the basement away from other people.

I am back at work, so naturally, I will start actually writing blog posts again. Only when getting paid to do other things can I find time to write a blog, apparently. I have spent my entire "semester break" (read: "vacation for a religious holiday that all state institutions are pretending just worked out that way by coincidence") away from computers and stuff mostly because I have had other things to do. This has proven to me that the only reason I spend any time on the internet is because I use it to procrastinate. Are other people like this? Is there real value in this thing? Occasionally I go to my computer to look something up, but I am usually done with it in less than 5 minutes and move on to other things. Perhaps the reason the internet is so ubiquitous is that society has moved away from jobs that are totally focused on results. Old professions are immune. Hookers and mechanics rarely spend their day on facebook.

So I hear.

About hookers.

Dammit.

Gonna wait til the midnight hour.

The curse of being a night owl used to be no one to share it with. Now it feels a little crowded here in the living room.

Just call me Bing Crosby.

Today is the day before the day before christmas. I have spent a great deal of the last few months, (or maybe decades) thinking that perhaps the world was a place full of assholes. States exhibit A: Me. To lessen this feeling, there is always watching the news around christmas time. There's always a great story about someone giving all their time and money to those less fortunate. This will often temporarily suspend my pessimism.

Today someone gave 1 million dollars to the people made homeless by the huge apartment fire in Burnsville. That's $17,500 per household. Then there was a story about a woman who has put together an organization to make homemade cookies for soldiers abroad. (She has now added hand knitted hats and cast covers for wounded soldiers traveling to germany)

Thanks everybody for letting me hang out and watch you be good at this "human being" thing.