For the second week in a row, I made a mid-week run up to mom’s, rather than the usual Saturday. That’s more disruptive than I’d like, for a number of reasons. The first is that I generally lose a full day of work that way, and no matter how I try, I never catch up on the weekend. But a bigger reason, as I’m discovering this morning, is that it makes the day after feel like a second Monday in the week. My brain has spent a day out of “work mode” and I need to get back up to speed again. I think I need to try a lot harder to avoid these emergency trips, hopefully with better preparation on the weekend.
As for today, the plan is pretty simple. Work, then more work, lunch & grocery shopping (I’ve been out of eggs for breakfast for two days now — a third Just Will Not Do), more work, party, then home to sleep. With any luck, none of those items will fall on the floor, especially the getting home to sleep part.
- Well, the ex-Expos might have a home: D.C. approves park construction, wants more private financing. But if half of the money doesn’t come from private financing, they’re not gonna build the park, and MLB will likely pack up the team and move again in 2006. [fark!]
- Jakob Nielsen compiled a list of the Most Hated Advertising Techniques on the web. I’m surprised that pages that automagically play audio at you aren’t hated more. That’s the one that I can’t easily block in Safari that bothers me most often. [boing boing]
- jr says If Conditions Persist, Get Help Immediately, pointing out that he’s been blogging for two years. Stick with it, kiddo, and you can be just as cool as me. And if you’re curious about why people blog, this explains everything. [jr and kim]
- Spin Magazine gives us The Ten Most Accurately Rated Artists In Rock History! I don’t think it deserves the exclamation point (so the article is probably overrated), but I have to agree with most of the assessments, which is just as it should be. [kottke]