But rarely arrive at any conclusions. It's coming up on two months now, since the time when my #1 project was put on "hold." I had enough stuff already scheduled to cover the first month, so it's been about a month since I started being bored out of my gourd at the office.

Here I am, brain the size of a (pea-sized) planet, and the most exciting thing on today's agenda is, "go to the basement and get the mail." I had three items on my schedule, but I did two of them. (Do expense reports, send reminder for tomorrow's training session.)

Now I'm eating lunch and listening to Buehler and Bossyboots discuss the Denver housing market.

That was 1-1/2 hour ago.

The thermometer on the building across the ways says, "107." And it's cloudy. I hate to think what the temperature would be if we had our usual bright sunshine.

I really do want to buy some more manga/yaoi. I don't know if it's because I like it, or I'm just bored and in need of something new to obsess over.

I'm pretty bored., no doubt about it.

Internet Explorer drives me bonkers. The default folder name under "favorites" is "links." As it happens, I don't use "links" as the name of any of my folders, so I deleted it. Actually, I've deleted it hundreds of times. I.E. keeps recreating it. They're determined that I'm going to use a folder named, "links." I'm determined that I won't.

Possibly this is some Sekrit Plot to gather up information about I.E. users by exploring what they put in their "links" folders. (Possible I'm getting a little cynical and paranoid, in my boredom.) I'm considering letter the folder stay the next time it creates itself. And putting just one link inside. www.myob.com You think they'd get it? (Sadly, it exists as a real website, bringing my Nefarious Plot to naught. Now I need a new acronym.)

I have many interesting bookmarks.

Immaculate Baking Company (I've ordered their cookies, to be sent to the office of a friend. They were a big hit.)

Letters 0.9 (Typing game. Accuracy counts.)

National Public Lands Day (Volunteer.)

ReadBookOnline (I'm reading Twain's Roughing It right now.)

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam (Some day it's going to blow again...and I'll be watching.)

Arcata Eye Police Log (The best police blotter in the business.)

ThinkGeek (Surely I know someone geeky enough that I can send them a present from this site?)

Free Classic Literature (For when I get tired of the ReadBook site.)

The Cubes (McSwain! Is getting these for Christmas.)

Arts & Letters Daily (It doesn't change daily, but it's interesting.)

Tricks of the Trade (Lots of trades, lots of tricks.)

If you live in a cold area you may sometimes walk out to your car to find the windshield completely frozen over. Rather than scraping away at it you could just start you car, urn the window defroster on, and -- here's the trick -- put down the sun visors. The warm air will be forced back onto the inside of the windshield and it will defrost much faster.

Today, the idea of cold, cold, cold weather seems like a myth.

It is almost imposible to get spilled coffee off an item once it has dried, but it can be done. The trick is to pour more coffee onto the item -- the freshly brewed java will dissolve the dried coffee, allowing you to rinse them both off with water.

I needed to know this one.

When making blueberry muffins (or any muffin with fruit, chocolate chips, etc), place the blueberries in a bowl with a dash of flour, then shake the bowl to coat them evenly with the flour. This will prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the muffins when you bake them.

I'm not a big blueberry muffin fan, but still.

Oooo! Excitement! Buehler wants me to type up a couple of V-cards for him!