I am lucky in that I don’t need to take a freeway to go to and from work. In fact if I had to take LA freeways on a regular basis again I would probably slit my wrists and drive off an overpass.
Not taking the freeway means I do a fair amount of driving through residential areas between 8 and 8:30 AM, and in that time I pass by at least three elementary schools.
I have begun to realize that kids these days don’t wear backpacks. They roll them!
When I first saw an army of kids rolling along the sidewalk it looked like they were all going to catch a flight at school. I chuckled. Then I realized that a big, heavy part of my childhood was gone forever.
In my day we carried seventy pounds of books in a backpack slung over just one shoulder and we LIKED it. It built character! Endurance! A permanent curvature of the spine was a small price to pay for hands-free convenience.
The first pioneering child to switch from a carried backpack to a rolled one was no doubt the recipient of many fists to the face, heels to the groin, and peer emotional torture the likes of which few children have ever tolerated. In time, however, others were brave enough to follow his example.
The end result is a new generation of straight-backed students who are ready for a life of air travel and trade show conventions.
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Boy oh boy do I love health insurance.
I just got the bill for my little emergency hospital stay in Albuquerque earlier this month.
Without insurance, I would have had to pay $1704.67. Thanks to Blue Shield I’ll only pay $100 – and half of that is for the ambulance.
Pretty sweet!
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This morning I received an invitation to the Shadowrun beta test. I almost forgot I applied for it back in November or something.
Shadowrun is supposed to be the first game that both 360 and Windows gamers will be able to play together online.
Somewhere along the line I must have agreed to an NDA because I’m not allowed to say anything other than “Yes, I’m playing the Shadowrun beta.”
If you’re in it too, add me to your friends list and we’ll play! My gamertag is “Elbow Macaroni”:
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The new DreamHost Web Panel is now up and running for all customers. The past two months I’ve been clocking 10 and 12 hour days pretty regularly…and even a few 16 hour days there last week, skipping the little things in life that make it worth living like “dinner” and “alcohol” and “sunlight”. I do not recommend doing this.
Anyway I’m looking forward to resuming a regular sleep/eat schedule starting tomorrow night when I plan to get royally drunk and treat myself to a rib-eye cooked to my exacting specifications in my backyard.
If you’ve got bug reports on the new panel send them to tech support and they’ll make their way back to me.
Hahoo!
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