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I think my brain is starting to give way under the work stress this week. I caught sight of a sign out of the corner of my eye, advertising the next meeting of the Gastrointestinal Journal society, and for a brief shining moment I caught myself wondering why a group of doctors would be writing about GI Joe.
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So, does Hallmark have a line of “Sorry you lost your space probe” cards for the folks at NASA yet?

Met one of the people who are going to be moving into our office once we’ve moved into out new location. Of course, we’re not going to move until all the old stuff that’s stored in the new office is moved out, and that’s not going to happen for a while yet. Then the remodeling crew needs to go over the new place, and the electricians, and the networking people. And for all that time this new person doesn’t even have a place to hang her coat. She’s literally using her car as an office… We’ve joked occasionally that we’re not going to move until we’re as busy as it’s possible to be. It’s starting to look less like a joke now.
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For the next couple of days it’s just going to be me and my boss in the office. Kinda like it used to be years ago… Of course, the workload is much higher now than it used to be then, but that’s ok. I mean, it’s all done with computers, right?
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I picked up some friends from the airport today. We used their car rather than wedge four people into a VW bug. The strangest part of it was that their car is an automatic and I’m very much used to driving a stick. It took a conscious effort of will to not step on the non-existent clutch when turning corners or coming to a halt.
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We’re hosting a Smithee movie viewing event tonight – in just a few minutes actually – and we’ve been prepping for it for most of the afternoon. I’ve been cooking. First thing was a batch of home-made salsa using some of the fresh tomatoes from a friend’s garden. It’s my first attempt to make salsa, and I think it’s ok… Maybe a bit salty. We’ll see how it goes.
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Yeah, a bit of a late entry for tonight. Work has been pretty hectic, so I was planning on saving my writing for the evening… And then with the combination of cat-sitting for some friends and heading over to my Sister’s place to help her with a gaming thing, things ran rather late.
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Those fools! What do they think they’re doing, messing around with dinosaur bones in Norway?!? Haven’t they seen Reptilicus?!? Granted, that was Denmark, not Norway… But they’re not that far apart! Have we learned nothing at all from that cautionary tale? How many more cardboard cut-outs of farmers in blue plaid shirts will be eaten by rubber snakes before we realize that digging up dinosaurs in Scandinavia can only lead to tragedy?