If only it were possible to somehow force yourself to do the exact opposite thing you are about to do, because you know full well the next thing you do will be absolutely wrong.

This is how I feel right now because I am totally wiped out, and I have reached the point where I know I will make 3 mistakes for every one thing I do right. But because I am at that point there is no way for me to conciously avoid the mistake. I guess the only smart thing to do is go to just stop and go to sleep. But…I press on.

Apparently Jerome McDougle has been shot.

I have just finished listening to Song of Susannah by Stephen King, and I think the Dark Tower story is brilliant. It has also sold me on audio books, because although I am sure I could appreciate Midworld and the Ka-tet had I read it, this has been a great experience.

I also seem to have gotten over my initial disapointment infused with anger when I popped the earphones in and started listening to Wolves of the Calla and heard George Guidall instead of Frank Muller. Man was I pissed. After I researched the circumstances and found that Frank was in a motorcycle accident and can barely speak that my anger was directed toward Stephen King for taking so damn long to finish writing. I eventually came to realize since Iam so late to this Dark Tower party that George Guidall had narrated the version of The Gunslinger that I had listened to as well, and he is good, very good. But I really got into the world when Frank was doing the narrating, and it was irritating the way Eddie Dean’s inflections had changed, but all that has receded, because as I said George Guidall does a fine job, although it took a book and a half for me to get over that.

I am very anxious to get my ipod wrapped around the final volume of this work. I never thought much of Stephen King, I mean I knew he was successful so I had respect for that, but I just went with my tendency to assume something that everybody likes is probably sub par. (e.g. reality television, or most of television in general) But anyway I am blown away by the Dark Tower, and I suspect I will read quite a bit more of Mister King’s work now.

So any way to King: Hile wordslinger! Thank ye Sai, big big.

Well Tuesday mornings should be very productive for me in 2006 during football season. They just announced that the Monday Night Football crew will be Al Michaels and Joe Theisman. UGH! Theisman is the worst announcer ever.

Anyway, like I said it’s a mixed blessing, I can go to sleep early on Monday, and when the Eagles play I can just listen to Merrill Reese.

Merlin Mann a vocal proponent of David Allen’s Getting Things Done wrote some good advice on business email use: email howto a piece of it that is tailor made for me is:

Keep It Short Finally, when you do respond to your mail, keep your answers as concise as possible. Don’t sit on old mail because you dread crafting a long response. Just keep the ball in motion by clarifying, asking questions, offering help, or even saying “I don’t know.� You can always write more later.

Now to practice that.

I have figured out why the people I know with young children don’t get up at 5 AM to go to the gym. Because they all stay up late, they stay up late because that hanging out time period that used to last from 6 PM until 9 or 10. Now doesn’t start until 9 or 9:30 when the critters are busy counting sugar plums. It turns out that short time period I used to take for granted for playing PS2, reading stuff, working on my aquaman suit or doing any other random thing is now 4 hours of live action romper room. I’m not complaining, but I certainly don’t feel like going to bed at 9:30 or 10 like I used to, I have much more important things to do, like type up swill to slop up on my blog. The question is when do I go to the gym? And the answer certainly has nothing to do with a home gym. That doesn’t work for me, it is too easy to cover with laundry. It probably has something to do with just getting up anyway. Or taking advantage of the fact that I am working from home and going to the gym at 6 or 7 instead of 5.

Allison’s hip has been declared medically sound. Xrays today, and a little minor tech draw and protractor use has determined that a 20 degree something or other for her left hip is good enough and we don’t have to go back. We can also ignore the frequent clicks and pops that come from there.

As if her pulling herself up on anything that is above her head and her crawling all around the place wasn’t clue enough that her legs are just fine. Her mobility has Michelle threatening to coat the entire living room in bubble wrap, and I have started looking or wholesale bubble wrap merchants because that would be awesome. And here’s a free business idea, create a something that looks like a shopvac that will let you coat things in nerf. Then I could rent that tool and shoot up all the hard corners and legs on things with 18 inches of nerf, then falling down would be even more fun time.

working from home is really blowing up my whip cream budget. Every day I eat a jello pudding cup for lunch either fat free or sugar free. The tastes are good and they are 100 or 60 calories respectively. A while back I discoverd they are great with just a little bit of whipped cream on top. Now that I am home I can always have this little treat! The real point is I am less tempted to run out to fast food joint at home. So lunch can remain relatively inexpensive and healthy.

Here is a neat way to filter spam.

Poor Man’s Spam Filtering Solution:

With this solution, gmail becomes my spam filtering software by moving spam to a special folder that doesn’t get retrieved via pop3 access.

A little while back I wrote about coke with splenda in summary I said it doesn’t suck. Well coke zero doesn’t suck even more. It goes a step further than splenda coke did in removing the bad aftertaste of diet coke, it actually has a good taste. It isn’t exactly the great sweet coke taste that helped me reach 300 lbs back in college, but it is good taste.

Anyway I hope it doesn’t cause cancer or superflu or anything like that because I drink like 3 of them a day now, to keep my caffeine addiction honed to a fine edge.