That's excellent news, ita !.

I really want to get my hair cut but the only styles I like are the ones I don't think will be flattering.

ita !, so glad for the good news about your mom!

Just found out my company is switching our email client from Lotus Notes to Gmail in October. I don't know whether to be happy or not. Lotus has some distinct problems, but it's always *there*. Gmail seems to disappear too often for my comfort.

Nothing to do but crank up the AC, set taste buds to "margarita," and ride it out.

Calli, I'm cravenly stealing "set taste buds to margarita". Just so you know.

Apricot dark and stormies sound amazing. Omg.

I am annoyed by my work and giving up on pleasing anyone. Which means I end up on phone calls saying "no. (pause, pause, pause...) was there anything else?". But seriously people, I can't do the impossible, I won't kill myself to try, and the more you ask for it in non- emergency circumstances, the less likely I am to even mildly put myself out, trying. Much less the ridiculous amount of effort it would take to do what you want. You're paying me well, but not well enoug for 80 hour weeks when it's not even that urgent.

Thanks for the good thoughts, folks.

I gave up on the day and came home, after telling my boss I felt "crappy". Which is entirely true.

And then I slept for an hour and now I'm still cranky but the new Where the Hell is Matt video made me cry and cheered me up a bit, so that's something.

I suspect I'm going to bail on climbing tonight: I'm not fit for human company, and it will be my last solitary evening until Monday.

Consuela, if I could send you a Dark and Stormy popsicle, I would. But I'm not sure they're fully frozen yet, so I haven't even tried one.

My mom brought me birthday apricots from her tree and I got about ten of them home. So delicious. But I am not going to do anything with them besides nom. Birthday apricots are the best. Mmmmm, apricots.

But seriously people, I can't do the impossible

I got one of those things asked in a family tech support situation.

My uncle wants something for his computer which I swear I told him that the hardware would NOT support last month. He's going to keep asking, I know it. And he can't explain what he wants so it ends up with a computer sitting in front of me and not being able to be a magician. Which tends to be not awesome. Oh well.

Google seems to be down. The fuck? Anyone else?

Works for me.

Very good news about ita's mom!

Any ideas for what to do with maybe half a pound of cherries that really aren't sweet enough yet? I don't want to waste them, but I usually just ... eat them.

I used to get a ...what was it? Pink zin? Any sore of sweetish rosé, dump it and cherries in a pot, low slow boil, add sugar as needed. It made a really lovely sauce and I didn't let the cherries get too mushy.

Had to drive out to Towson to swim tonight. But not before I hit my Y and then the Parkville one. Uhg. And then had to circle swim with the slowest and most clueless pair for a third of my swim. But I still got my swim in, so there is that.