- First day back at work after vacation was a series of small tortures and large annoyances. Worst Day awarded to the coworker who left his toolbox unlocked on a job site. Someone mistook it for a urinal.

- Got hurricaned three years ago today. Friday the Thirteenth - Not afraid to live up to the bad press. Had cold Spaghettios out of a can to commemorate.

- I actually hit my caffeine limit today. Didn't know I had one.

- Ordonez hit two home runs yesterday. In the same inning. Two! He's so quietly flashy when he does this stuff. Tigers - pay him more. Maggs - don't cut your hair again.

- Have been invited to go lobstering. We don't... lobster much where I'm from. In fact, I had no idea it was a verb.

- I would trade a body part for moussaka right now.

Day, you are looking unpromising in the extreme. I'd like to exchange you for a trip to the dentist, already. And it's only 8:30 am.

Cow-horkers - I know it's been a whole five days since we did our thing here, but the basic physics of glass haven't changed over the holiday. It doesn't bend, okay? If you flex it, it breaks. Really.

Also - there's a little crab on the loose in the shop. Seriously. Tiny crab. It just startled the hell out of me. Who expects to see a wee crustacean come scuttling out from under a pile of metal? Though my friggin' coworkers seemed to really enjoy my three-foot leap in the air.

And the girly squeak.

I hate you, Monday.

- Five straight hours of major FUBAR on the biggest jobs we're running/about to start? Is my karma really that bad?

- It's my first Wildfire Season. Smells like fall when I was a kid. Or Devil's Night. However, it's gotten alarmingly smoky outside in the last half hour. The news is saying it's all from Georgia, brought down here by the system off the coast. That's a bit Wow.

- Got one of those cat furniture treehouse things for the BobDammit RottenCat. Only took 10 minutes to put together, and has all sorts of levels, a dangly rope and a hiding house for her to launch sneak attacks from. She still stole my chair whenever possible, though.

- Can't seem to quit fiddling with my layout. Or cruising around minty_peach, resplandor and refuted for new ones. And I really love my layout. But the tweaking is like crack. I guess the family OCD Fairy paid me a visit.

- I'm feeling a little hooked on Heroes lately. It's on the Get the Dvds List, because Hiro is entirely awesome.

- Neifi. Perez. Homered. !!!.

- Best wishes to Joel Zumaya with his surgery. A speedy recovery, no pain and a quick return to playing Guitar Hero.