what a day

work is kicking my ass this week. i had to come back to work at 1 in the morning last night for several hours and then drag my butt out of bed to be here by 8. fortunately, it was very easy to wake up once i hit the shower as the hot water heater went out last night. in my haste to prevent shrinkage, i managed to ram my big toe underneath the door and extricate a sizable chunk of the cursed appendage. by this time, my desire to go back to bed had been replaced by the desire to cuss. a lot. a whole lot. my colorful tirade directed at the bathroom door was only made worse by the fact that i could find no clean boxers. thankfully, the gods decided they had tormented me enough for one morning and i spotted my gym bag which i had packed last night with some fresh undies. crisis averted. having made it this far, i went in to work to discover that pretty much anything that could have broken, did. now it is night time and i'm considering sleeping in the lab but i don't want the security guards to think i'm easy and get ideas.

long time no blog

wow, it's been almost two weeks since i wrote in this thing. i guess that means i've been busy. two weeks ago, i went back to campus to get rip-roaring drunk and hang out with the boys (and girls). timmy and zack gave me a thorough ass kicking of a workout when we toured the park that i used to spend a lot of time running in. and then the illini inn gave me a second ass kicking in the form of a hangover. we topped it off with napoleon dynamite (terrible movie...i can't understand why this is popular).

last weekend i headed out to Vail with the geek-squad where we talked business and tech and did some skiing on the side. these guys always push me hard both mentally with all the geek talk and physically since i suck at skiing. at one point, we started jumping off 4 to 8 foot rock outcroppings. i have no business doing such retarded things.

so that's the update. more random thoughts and rantings forthcoming.