Random bits today.

From Rob: Your bikers at the Dia de los Reyes fiesta weren't giving out familiar-looking consumer electronics and gas fireplaces, were they? Heh. No, I didn't notice anything familiar. Wouldn't that have been fun though.

Andy is still at sleepaway camp -- ok fine, at his low-res master's program at Bennington -- so I'm bitter -- so I'm doing his job for the week. My god, Andy, that's an annoying piece of software you have to work with, isn't it. Dude. Sorry. We're still not going to pay you more, though.

I had to draft Eric Chandler, who used to work with us, into proofreading the newsletter for me -- THANK YOU Eric. Now go create a web page (in your copious spare time) that I can link to and send people to shower you with lucrative work.

Status of a selection of New Year's Resolutions:

Cook at least one healthy vat of something a week, so I can bring in decent food for lunch and not buy crap. So far, so good. I had a disaster with a chicken cassarole thing that I won't go into at the moment, but the butternut squash and beef chili turned out nicely, thank you.

Write daily, either in blog, journal or for articles. Ahhh, treading the ragged edge of disaster on that one. I think I might have tweaked a paragraph on something I'm putting together yesterday, and I'm going to let that count. But I'm perilously close to slipping on that one.

Clean at least once a week. Who am I kidding. That one went right to hell. Looks like the party/houseguest clause of my and Wendy's partnership agreement will have to stand.

Exercise at least three times a week. Again, it depends on how liberal you are with the definition of "exercise."

Don't drive to work unless I really have to --i.e., I need to get to Wisconsin over lunch or something. So far, so good. And I'm counting my evening walk to the far bus stop (instead of taking two buses or taking the near bus) as exercise (what -- it's more than a mile).