"Hey Thad, someone egged your car and it shattered the window."

…

…So how was everyone else's day?

Some musings, observations, and general thoughts:

1. Who decided it was a good idea to tell people, "Oh, you're going to have to check this" after baggage check?
2. Seriously, guys. It's jelly. What conceivable kind of danger can this jelly possibly pose?
3. So the problem is the size of the container? So if I had, say, three smaller containers and split the jelly up into them — the exact same matter, just in different containers — you wouldn't have thrown it out?

Anyway. Thanks for making us so much safer, TSA.

…Then again, I guess my airport experience could have been a lot worse.

It was all going pretty well until my brother broke his ankle.

I can honestly say I've had better birthdays. But I'll say one thing: I'm sure as hell going to remember this one.

Had some serious computer trouble last night, and it vanished as mysteriously as it came.

It has occurred to me that I know at least three couples who have gotten engaged, married, and divorced in the time since my last major hardware upgrade. And that was just a new video card.

If I had the dollars, I'd get me one o' them Mac Pro things the kids talk about. Triple-boot OSX, Windows, and some flavor of Linux. I'm thinking Kubuntu, since I've discovered I don't have the time to keep my packages up-to-date in Gentoo.

But man, I'll miss Gentoo.

All of that, of course, is academic at this point, as I do not have the dollars for a Mac Pro. Hopefully I can remedy that situation, but if my computer dies in the meantime, I guess I'll have to use Knoppix or my Mac Mini or something.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must come to the sobering realization that the most normal person he knows is this gentleman:

It has recently come to my attention that every single person I know is currently campaigning for the position of Mayor of Crazytown. I wish them all the best of luck, but caution them that the incumbent is going to be very difficult to defeat.

I have further realized that Brad is doing a surprisingly poor job in his campaign for Mayor of Crazytown in comparison to everyone else I know.

Actually, it's not that surprising. He didn't do so well in his campaign for Mayor of Tempe, either.

Reading: Elric: Song of the Black Sword. I agreed to read it if Felipe would read Watchmen. So far he is more impressed than I am.

An inauspicious beginning indeed: it's only mid-February and I'm having a nail removed from the second tire this year.

Though this is an improvement over the last time. Trying to get a tire fixed is trickier on New Year's Day than on a regular work day when you work nextdoor to Arrowhead Tire.

Microsoft to change "Hotmail" to "Windows Live Hotmail".

What in the hemorrhaging hell does Hotmail — or any of this other Windows Live crap, for that matter — have to do with Windows?

Playing: Final Fantasy VI Advance, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

The Register is totally ripping me off.

I had a productive afternoon.

I got a long-overdue oil change, a car wash, and bought a new pair of shades to replace the pair I left at the Mexican restaurant on Saturday night.

(I was due for a new pair anyway. I'd had those things for three years and they were all scratched and I was missing one of my spare lenses.)

I got to cross two things off my To-Do list.

How I kicked off 2007:
With a nail in my tire.

Reading: The Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman

Playing: Final Fantasy 3, Final Fantasy 12, Guitar Hero 2