It's Friday! That's enough fun for most of us. My brain's just all over the place today.

Buehler IM'd me this morning and said he wants me to work next week "for the handoff." Which is silly because if I had enough work to "hand off" I'd have enough to justify them to keep paying me but I'm grateful because one of the things it allows him to do is to continue my insurance coverage for another month. Not to mention getting another four days of pay.

I was sort of looking forward to sleeping in, at least for a couple of days next week. I haven't been sleeping well and I'm back to standing on the balcony praying for snow. I called my doctor yesterday and she's increasing my hormonal supplement dosage.

My new, favorite internet site? Snow Monkey Live-Cam!

My Special Day is fast approaching. Pleading poverty (and no brain) I'd like to request that those of you who, from time to time, are engaged in gift exchanges with me select this year as a year to skip. Okay?

Contrary to my usual Special Day Strategy, I haven't requested any gifts at all this year, even from family. This "not shopping" thing is wearing on me. I've demanded that the R.C. provide me with a gift certificate (I gave her a choice of two or three stores) so that I can shop.

I'm in an astonishingly good mood today, no doubt because of yesterday's New Diet Regime. Yesterday I had: 1/4 lb cheeseburger, 1 medium order French fries, 1 Butterfinger candy bar, 1 small package Fritos, 1 strusel cupcake (large), 1 cup corn chips. In other words, enough sodium and fat to last a sensible person a month. Say what you will about the benefits of a healthy diet and lean body mass, nothing makes me giggle like naughty food.

Well, maybe torch does. Because she's the dreadful woman who actually sent me the first episode of Yami no Matsuei. And then when I drooled, she sent me the second one. So, she's today's combined Evil Pimp and Fandom Goddess. (EPaFG? That's not an attractive acronym. FGaEP?)

It was scary. I had to learn to download a whole new kind of file and then download software to use it and then figure out which thing in the software folder to click to make the file viewable. But I succeeded!

Which is more than I've done with the half-dozen "bittorrent" files I downloaded a few weeks ago. I found and downloaded some software for those as well, but every time I double click the files, they seem to try to upload to the 'net (at a pace that will take them 6 hours to finish) and nothing either opens or downloads. I don't quite understand what's going on, but whatever it is isn't what I want to have going on and I think I'll have to just resign myself to deleting the bittorrent files and not viewing whatever it was I was trying to see.

I also tried downloading a file through some peculiar IRC (ICQ? I've already forgotten) thing a couple of weeks ago. That was even scarier. And less successful.

You let your attention wander for a year or so and technology just leaves you in the dust, doesn't it?

I like books. You buy a book. You can read it. It's simple. Elegant. Satisfying.