Yesterday wasn’t at all what I expected. Well, I guess part of it was. I woke up and scrambled through the morning to get a bug or two fixed. That went pretty well, but there was some time pressure. I guess that’s why they pay me the big bucks, right? After that, things started to deviate from the plans.
After lunching and heading home, I was just wiped out. I’m not sure why I was so tired, but I was, and took a nap for a couple hours. When I woke up, I wasn’t feeling at all like going to a baseball game, so I called the guy I was going with and told him I was bailing on the tailgating and game plans. At that point, I was planning on a quiet evening at home, including maybe some TV and a bunch of sleep.
Once I had decided not to go to the game, I got strangely productive. I caught up on email again (mostly) and knocked off a bunch of little work things that have been waiting in the wings for a while. Then I called up Bill, who was busy talking to MPP. It was decided that we should go out and buy Mike some beers, since he’s been unemployed for a while.
That’s how I find myself writing this at three am, rather than being asleep like a sane person would be. What I had planned to be a quiet evening turned into a (rather expensive) evening out with the boys, but it was a whole lot of fun, and I don’t feel at all bad about not going out to the ballgame for the first time of the season. The weather was sucky, and I’m glad I spent the evening in a nice warm bar, rather than shivering outdoors watching the game, even if the Saints did win in what sounds like a decent game.
- Newsweek has a long article on Al Qaeda’s Pre-Election Plot, pointing out that the administration might actually have a good reason for raising the threat level to orange. That wrecks at least a couple conspiracy theories I’ve been working on. [fark!]
- A Tidal wave disaster is just waiting to happen in the Canary Islands which could unleash mega-tsunamis that would devastate Caribbean islands and the east coast of the US. Hmm. I might feel bad about some of the cities that would get wrecked, but a fifty-metre high seawater enema might be just the thing for Washington DC. [fark!]
- One of the things I’ve long advocated was Throwing Tables Out the Window. This is another article that makes that point, including a guerilla redesign of Microsoft’s home page, and points out that MS would save over 300 terabytes per year in bandwidth with the redesign. [zeldman]
- A reader points out the Minnesota State Fair Brewing Competition, referenced from the Creative Activities rules and premiums brochure. There’s a state fair competion for just about everything, and it’s nice to be reminded that homebrew is one of those competitions. The Minnesota Homebrewers Association runs the contest, and there’s a category for Mead this year. Shame I don’t have anything ready to go, but maybe if I link to it, I’ll remember for next year’s state fair (part of the purpose of this blog is a long-term memory for me). So far in my life, I’ve entered one brew in a competition, and won a blue ribbon. That was about ten years ago, so maybe it’s time for a second attempt.