Stuff to talk about soon....

• Football
• Goin' home
• My brushes with fame.

I'll get to 'em eventually, but right now I'm all tied up. {Not literally - get your minds out of the gutter.}

Yeah, I'm still here - but I just haven't felt like composing my thoughts enough to post them. Maybe in the following days I will, but for now, I'm rather enjoying the fuddled mess my brain seems to be turning into. {grin}

Well, nothing unexpected happened yesterday. The things that our campus would cut if our legislature dropped our funding by their suggested amount were announced. We've known for a while that they (the cuts) were coming, but didn't know the particular things that would be cut. It looks grim for the University as a whole, but there's not much else we can do.

In other news: I got my reappointment committee's letter, but that was expected and I was told it was going to be positive, so that's a plus. Next comes the oral evaluation between me, my supervisor, and the Dean of Libraries. That's next Monday if you want to know.

Ever get the feeling that something was going to happen? Not necessarily something bad, but just something? I have that feeling today, like the other show is about to drop. I guess at the end of the day we'll see if I really did have a premonition, or if it was just indigestion! {grin}

Happy Birthday Alex!

Well, I finally got the new look done. It's not very flashy, but that's what I was going for. There's still a bunch of people reading this that are using lower-end browsers, and this page isn't nearly important enough for me to force people to use a specific browser! {grin}

Yesterday, the temperature was a nice 51 degrees. I was able to drive home with the window down and actually thought about taking an after supper walk. Today, the temperature was a nasty 1 degree. (That's right 1, o-n-e, 1!) Snow blowing everywhichway makes me wish I didn't have to walk from the car to the door of the apartment. That's the difference a day makes! {grin}

If you've been expecting an email from me - it might be a while. I spent most of this evening replying to emails only to get most of them bounced back. Something odd is going on. ERF!

mmm, What was I up to this weekend? Well, I've been prepping a new look for this page. I hope to get it done by the end of the week. It certainly isn't done using the latest and greatest tricks, although I probably should look into doing some of that stuff. I'm feeling like I'm letting myself get behind when it comes to web page construction and design. XML, CSS, PHP, and a whole bunch more are things I feel I should know - but I don't have the time right now to learn them.

That reminds me of this weird thought I had the other day. First I would give up watching television and reading comic books. Then I would only wear suits to work, instead of jeans and a sweater or dress shirt. I would also give up playing computer games and instead program and do research in my non-work hours, except for when I was working out or networking, always trying to find a new angle. The jist of the matter was that I started to think that if I did that, I would become very successful and famous and rich and yadda yadda yadda.

Now none of that is me, so why would I be thinking that's the direction I needed to take in my life? I'm happy with my life, I work hard at work, have a great relationship with my wife, and have achieved an above average degree of success, so what caused me to come up with the "I can do better" thoughts? I don't mind having a little bit of fire or desire to achieve, but to what end? I'd hate to burn out before I turn 40.

Maybe I'm just jealous of people who can make better web pages than mine. {grin}