riveting.

i've had blogger eat posts before, but never The Best Post I've Ever Written, and never when i'd taken every precaution not to have blogger eat posts. apparently, blogger now eats your cut and paste memory from other programs. yay.

we are going to see Return of the King tonight! yay! the geek equilibrium is preserved.

i called in sick yesterday. today, now that i'm back at work, i'm actually sick. karma?

today, we're having an engineering department gift exchange. i bought the Office Space DVD. it's pretty funny (okay, it's not fucking funny at all) that today the printer decides to act up. and by "act up," i mean, "ruin everything and make everybody miserable." we're about ready to take it out back and beat the shit out of it. PC Load Letter? what the fuck?!

no really, it's that exact printer. the PC Load Letter one.

we finally listened to Over the Rhine's "Ohio" last night. wow. buttah.

and have i ever publically thanked matt and sarah grace for sending us the VINYL copy of "ohio"?? vinyl! beautiful.

i am needed at work. this feels fabulous, for the most part. unless you called in sick yesterday and you're now rushing around trying to put out yesterday's fires.

someday i'll rewrite what blogger stole from me. it was fun for me to write and reread a few times (not to rub it in). it was about the sweet old man who sits outside the coffee shop every morning, drinking coffee and chain smoking.

a line from Over the Rhine's "Cruel and Pretty" mentioned that she'll meet someone in the "backroads of heaven." this got me thinking about relationships. in whatever shape our afterlife takes, will we have relationships as we know them? will we meet people in the backroads? surely, everyone has to get along. it's heaven, for crying out loud. therefore, human relationships cannot exist. they're intrinsically flawed and never unconditional. also, what about old ladies who remarry after their husbands-of-50-years pass away? if we have interpersonal relationships, who will be her "husband" in the hereafter? there's no way it can happen. however, what is heavenly about not feeling that personal bond with someone else, idiosyncracies and all?