Category: ramblings

Today I got the best birthday card ever – a web-based one with a disco psychedelic dancing monkey on it. I am speechless. I am loved.

So, as it turns out, it’s my birthday today. Yay me! Another year older, but still dumb as a bag of hammers.

On Friday (Mar 1st) I bought myself a present from everyone: a shiny new iBook 600/Combo. I have to say that it’s really, really cool to surf the web from the couch. Of course, AAl also got tickets for us to see Pablo Francisco! Woo! I am just spoiled rotten. 😛

Anyway, gotta go for now, make up some facts and figures for the meeting in about an hour, to see if we can justify all the stuff I want to get for the NIH Event Management section. You know, stuff like an editing system that works and a couple rendering stations, things like that, that we just maybe need. 😛

Toodle-oo, ass!

I wish it would snow already. Gloomy skies and butt-freezing temperatures just aren’t charming and magical without the snow.

So… this bottlecap from my Nantucket Nectars lemonade says “Christopher and Rebecca Sears, of Bedford, N.H., have collected hundreds of Nantucket Nectars bottlecaps.” I suppose they’d have to be as bored as I am right now. Bored enough to resort to actually posting something in my blog to pass the time. Thankfully, Lauri interrupts me to ask what effervescent means. So, I pull up m-w.com (Merriam-Webster, the best damn dictionary ever), and out comes:

Main Entry: ef·fer·vesce

Pronunciation: “e-f&r-‘ves

Function: intransitive verb

Inflected Form(s): -vesced; -vesc·ing

Etymology: Latin effervescere, from ex- + fervescere to begin to boil, inchoative of fervEre to boil — more at BREW

Date: 1784

1 : to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes

2 : to show liveliness or exhilaration

– ef·fer·ves·cence /-‘ve-s&n(t)s/ noun

– ef·fer·ves·cent /-s&nt/ adjective

Indeed. Like I said, all bubbly an’ shit.

I’m sitting at work, talking to AAl over AIM, as usual, and punching holes in pieces of paper that seem important, but in the long run, really aren’t. Need to figure out what I did this month, so I can bill NIH’s clients for them, and so I can prove I can do the hours that the higher-ups want to see me doing before they’ll get me some new Macs. It’s a dirty job?