Using my hand to show off my "TouchDown Buddha" (name props to fallingforward)... and that buddha came from landmark when he came back from the land of way-too-may-Thia-Fighters... :D Yeah, so much for the no smiling... It seems I can't actually do it. Lets see... some french guys are rebuilding my back yard... what started as "lets even out the ground where the garden and fix the grass..." became ... a complete rail-tie rim around the yard and a 6 square yards of earth carted in and spread about..." and next will be sod... gasp... And... and a very burly dude is on my deck as I type... he showed up at like 7:50 ... to try and fix the problems with our deck... it's all (in theory) nice British Columbia Red Cedar but that freaking wood is seriously bowing and all the nailing the deck-builders did is sucking ass... so Dude is all over the deck fixing stuff... and blah blah blah... it's stuff we're getting the contractor to do before the warranty runs out... wearing ~ black stripee ftls ~ beige p-z jeans ~ dk blue button up shirt... letterman day... planning ~ um... adding a scrolling news window to the internal web site and a bunch of other stuff the boss man asked for before he split... :D ~ trying to fill out more of my "self appraisal"... gah! ~ on going to my Dads house after work and see how he's doing... he had another "stint" put in and had to spend the night in the hospital... ~ wednesday night... it's the season closer for West Wing tonight... and another new Enterprise... I really like that show... too bad they look like they'll can it soon. wishing ~ that my buddy thomask gets better fast... I can hear you coughing from here... ~ to just send some good vibes to ladyfire about the VP.... very hard news. ~ to point out to icicle that to "become" a morning person... you really need to add children to the mix. ~ there was something I could say to be helpful for my friend laurel714 ~ that my friend jmm2_29 enjoys all the giggling she's gonna do today. ~ for the strength of the goddess to find my friend pageeater... you can do it... and the client is transitory... the house is for many many years... just say'en. Fun news? Yeah... got a call from my own personal Nazi Torture Chamber Master... aka My Dentist... and it seems that Dr. Mengela wants to put off my appointment to put the perma cap on the tooth (scheduled for this coming Tuesday) and schedule time instead to do a "little more work on that root"... as if maybe he's decided from some review of the xrays that maybe there's more root to take out... ????? that would explain some of the pain... but seriously... for all those folks that have had Root Canals and commented that I ought to not worry... they're easy beans etc... Please collectively jump in the nearest lake... hahahaa... UG@!#$%!@#@%$!@#. :D I swear... I'm being punished for something... I'll take suggestions regarding just what I've done to deserve this... Oh... and I got a hair cut... how old do I look? A co-worker just said I look like punk kid... hahahaha... (I'm 42... I'm forty-two!!!! I'm the official Douglas Adams Uber Gosh Number).