March 2000

And there you have it folks. Another week is finished. Time for bed and a good night’s sleep. The Gators won. Tomorrow we go a-house-hunting. Is it just me or is blogger taking forever to load lately?

Disclaimer from the UPS web site:

NOTICE: UPS authorizes you to use UPS tracking systems solely to track shipments tendered by or for you to UPS for delivery and for no other purpose. Any other use of UPS tracking systems and information is strictly prohibited.

Here’s my question: What other purpose could you possibly have?

from Jorge, via ICQ:
No, silly … everyone knows that there are two very distinct species of Mr. Potato Heads … the non-poisonous, non-toxic Potatus Headus Nonperilus and the fatally poisonous, very exotic Potatus Headus If-it-catches-you-it-will-poisoin-you-badus …

The potato beings are still trying to communicate. After a lunch that suspiciously included potato chips (even though I swore last night that I would keep today potato-free), Jason sent me a link about a ‘potato-shaped’ asteroid …

I’ve come to the conclusion that yesterday I was unwittingly being controlled by some alien race of potato beings all day. I guess it could have been standard, terrestrial potato beings, but that would be rather mundane. I had french fries at lunch. I wrote that bit in the oceanlogblog about my headache and Mr. Potato Head. I bought a tube of Pringles on my way home from the gym. Sylvia made me mashed potatoes and chicken for dinner. It all adds up, doesn’t it? Frightening.

I’m not very compatible with Firda. I hope she’s not too heartbroken. I am an amazing 88.67% compatible with Sylvia though, and that’s pretty cool.

As soon as I get home I log on. My life will be much easier when all this stuff is just beamed into my head. But I do all this for you, my four visitors each week. Because I would be so sad if you visited and then got bored. (insert loud trumpets here)

Isn’t England on the metric system, by the way? Why are Altoids marked 1.76 OZ (50g)? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

This has been a long day … it’s time to go home …

Remember when you were in elementary school and if you had a headache you could go to the nurse’s office and sleep for a few hours? How cool was that? Why don’t we have a nurse’s office here? That would be excellent.

This will be a day long-remembered in the annals of splitting headache history. Oh, turncoat brain! Cease your relentless pounding and let me work!

got acetaminophen?

I am also reminded that there is a reason why I don’t like reading run-on sentences. Why do I continue to write them? Control … I must learn control.

There was recently a tale in [GatorNotes] in which I tried to explain the concept of serendipity and I probably did a poor job of it. I am thinking that if I ever own something that I want to name - maybe a large plantation or a sailboat - I will name it serendipity. I seem to be inundated with it lately. Tonight I read an article at www.sylloge.com and I, for not the first time today, had my flabber gasted. I’ve been visiting his site for a while now and like to read. He has a nifty little place and a style that I really enjoy. So a n y w a y … here’s a guy that I’ve never met writing about conciousness and mind and the supreme pain of hearing the word impact used as a verb and doing it in a wonderful prose and it is totally out of the blue and just when I needed to be reminded that there is intelligent life on the planet. I would really like a sailboat, by the way.

So I told Sylvia that the sneaker-slash-hiking-boot on her left foot was cooler than the nearly identical one on her right foot … “Does cooler count?” she asked … “Cooler’s all that matters,” I replied …

Just got back from the dentist. Clean teeth feel great! (And how often do you get to use ee and ea so many times in one sentence?) Since I was ‘in town’ I had lunch with mom at Fast Attack. I’ve been in Gainesville almost ten years and I had never been to the place. Good food.