It's very sad to be me today. I wore shorts, again, but it's not climbing to 95 outdoors (for a change) and they got the a/c fixed here in the office. I'm...not cold, exactly, but I don't think there's much danger of me having Flashes today.

I also switched, for the summer (or the duration of the diet, whichever ends first) from my delicious hot latte in the morning to an iced Americano. No milk. 20 calories, versus 200.

Sigh. When I'm bored, I'm boring.

So...what else is new?

I found the files I'd lost. (It wasn't me...someone had actually carried them off.)

Then I lost my shoe. I bought new sandals last weekend. $90! I wore them home that day, kicked them off, and promptly lost one of them. After three days of searching I finally realized I'd bundled them up into the laundry bag when I'd sorted (but never actually done) my laundry.

Also, last night I dreamt that Prince...I don't remember which one, William or Harry, one of them shoved a reporter off the gables of the building outside his room at school. I don't often remember my dreams, but I'm pretty certain that dreams about the U.K. Royal Family aren't regular with me.

At a friend's urging, I finally got around to trying Lost Wednesday evening. I have to say, until the Mysterious Disappearing Man (dis)appeared, and what may turn out to be a Giant Lizard rustled the bushes, I was finding it pretty slow. If I don't forget, I'm going to give it another shot next Wednesday, but I didn't feel any instant affinity with it.

I don't object to a show that takes a bit more time to warm up to, many of the more intelligent shows do, but this was nothing but a nighttime soap opera before the Giant Lizard, and I'm not a big fan of soap operas.

Ho-hum The office is pretty much deserted today. Buehler was in for about an hour, to do a conference call, but he had Tatiana, one of his daughters, with him, so they left to run errands and have lunch.

Slim Pickens, of course, was released from servitude at this institution a couple of weeks ago. They don't seem to be replacing him, they're hiring an outside IT company. Moe is the only Stooge who seems to show up here any more. He's actually here today, but he's cranky. Curly hasn't been around in ages and Frogmorton, the guy who replaced Larry, is "working from home" today.

I miss DiamondGirl sometimes. She was the most fun person they ever hired. She still appears from time to time, to help them out with various problems, but I rarely get to do more than say, 'hi' in passing.

Lemme see...what else?

I'm off to the Wilds Of the Midwest again next week. Kansas and Missouri for yet another Familial Visit. This time the Mother-Unit and I are rendezvousing at my Lives-In-Kansas-Sister's place. I'm looking forward to seeing them again and I think being in KC will be more fun than at the Mother-Unit's place. At least there are places to go in KC, you know? Things to do. And we'll get to see Rapunzel and Pippi, which is naturally a major bonus. There was some picture-taking the last time I was in there area. I need to get off my procrastinating log and get that film developed.

Writing...not so much this week. I've pondered the DS piece a few times, working out some Issues of Scene Changing. Thinking about writing is much easier than writing.

I could politiblog some more, but I've been doing a lot of that the last couple of weeks as my workflow has slowed to a trickle. And, oddly enough, I feel more guilty about blogging when I'm not busy at work. Like there's something else I could be doing, but I'm not.

Actually, Buehler assumes I'm sitting here shopping. Which reminds me, there's something I want to order from Amazon.

After I've spent all my money, I can always go back to reading novels.