Another day spent in idleness.

Well, not quite. There was Hare and Guu, there was noticing that a bill had come for me and that I was already four days late on it (nobody at the house mentioned it, and I never noticed it - absentmindedness for the loss, and an addition 2% late fee, but it's okay as this was a cheap bill - still I'm mildly annoyed that such happened. Just means I need to check religiously to see what mail I have, and I'll think about asking fellow bill-payers to let me know when bill mail arrives. Oh, well, no harm done and no collection agencies at my doorstep. Wonder if my credit rating or my relationship with the company took a hit though - I'm late on the first bill in my name because I didn't even notice it was there. That's sad and embarrassing.

I get tossed around two different workplaces, starting Monday. Should be interesting being able to compare between the two and see the differences. This does mean that I will be working eight hour or more days from here on out to the end of the summer. Less time for gaming and such, but that's okay. Credit is still credit.

Feeling a little on the frazzed and annoyed side because of the late bill and because I was told I needed to CC someone on an e-mail that I didn't really think needed to be, as I was asking a clarifying question between what was on the schedule and what had been discussed. After that was done, if things were different, I would have said something about it to the scheduler. Ah, well. Still learning procedure, I guess.

It rained today - I heard a couple thunder-booms. Although, it's been nearly a week now and this strange sinus-y thingy hasn't gone away. I'm pretty convinced now that it's allergies or something. I'll go get the proper medicine for it tomorrow. Much of my day, however, minus the frantic trip to the post office, was spent running a wrecking crew on the last bits of Sora's Mode in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

You knew this would happen. You had to. Snake on a plane. Yep. Snake on a motherf--king plane. *sigh*

In slightly perkier news, if you're feeling a little flat or small, try on The perfect female breast bra and be the envy of all the size-obsessed people. Well, at least until the illusion comes off. But we're not responsible for those consequences.

Smoke detectors explode when Duracell batteries are used. Corporations have probably been trying to figure out how to do that for years. Be careful, now - if it says "made for X batteries", it might really be true and you could be endangering yourself if you try to use something else.

The Striaght Dope crushes one of my hopes: getting rid of facial hair permanently is neither easy nor cheap. It would have been nice to not have a beard appear when I'm not looking. Oh, well, guess we keep shaving.

A good joke to play at a Dr. Who gathering. Or on people who might actually believe it. Or anybody who could use a little shock out of their drudgery.

In the "government going in the wrong direction again" department, scientific supply store couple gets federal visit. The reason? They sell stuff that can possibly be used to make illegal fireworks. Yep, that's right. Science experimentation at home is being scrapped because of the fear that someone will take that science fun and turn it to terror purposes. By legislating this out, you might defeat some young would-be terrorists, but you also probably rub out many more would-be scientists who could find ways of combating those terrorists, or possibly helping in other chemical areas. It's unfortunate, but at some point there has to be a willingness to say "Okay, fine. We might get one terrorist who wants to blow up a federal building, but the ninety-nine-thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine other scientists will do enough good (many times over - ed) that we can accept having one and just hope that law enforcement will catch that one terrorist before any damage is done." Not to mention a nation without scientists is likely to be caught by surprise, either when one of the artifacts of a scientific time goes "Yoink!" and catches them with their collective pants down, or some other country's scientists develop something that will make it so that the citizens of your country become the slaves of theirs.

I wonder, though, if this is a "natural" extension of the ant-intellectual trend (or perceived trend - much of the stupidity I see is achieved by groups... see the Power of Stupidity, I suppose) of the United States. Rein the eggheads in and stop them from doing things that the average American doesn't understand. Drag them away from their pursuits because John Q. American thinks everyone smarter than him is gloating about it? Or is plotting to take over the country/world? Someone, please explain this trend to me - I don't really understand it well enough to mock it, nor to combat it.