Morningpost.

Crashed last night - the rain made me all sleepy-like, and so this is the material in the morning.

Exploding laptops. If that's a spontaneous combustion, that's not cool. Of course, I hope that wasn't in anybody's lap when it did that, or there's more fuel to the stories that laptop usage makes you impotent. In this case, it would be by a very different method.

Cheating on your spouse could make your alimony last longer, if she's had nothing but bad luck and unfortunate happenings, or your divorce proposal is one of a string of bad things. Emotional trauma influencing awards? Dunno where I've seen that before...

Rainbow clouds in the sky! Things reflect just right to give you a spectrum. So maybe there really is a pot of gold at the end of where that one leads...

And now, off to work at internship two, then a rest, and back to internship one.

Plodding along.

First, felicitations to moltare for leveling up in the game of life. May your WIS and INT scores grow higher, your CHA never lower, and your loot never run out.

Calvin and Hobbes fanfic, done right. Read this. We demand it.

Something a lot lighter - Signs your child may be a conservative - a humor piece in the vein of the "your child's behavior will likely determine their political allegiance" study that happened some time ago.

Today at work was fun - two scheduled, but then we got a ring, and apparently one of the branches had nobody coming in, so I stayed where I was (I had a project semi-tying me down) and the other librarian went to the branch. The first couple hours were hectic, as the people near the Internet computers were up for horseplay, but never anything serious enough to warrant a sending-off (although I'm sure I cautioned them at least twice, so I could have probably sent a couple off for repeated infraction, if all I had to do was issue cards). After the crowd filtered away, things became quiet and it was another regular day at the desk. Cleaning up was fun, though, and almost every time I was in the play area, the phone rang - I didn't hear it until the last ring, though, and so whatever business someone was trying to do, sorry. That's why you try to schedule two. Unavoidable problem, oh well.

Tomorrow, must remember to bring home timecard and ID badge, so I don't have to trek back up there to grab them for the weekend shifts. And while I've been writing this and doing all the other things, I've probably been boring annaonthemoon to tears, but she has wireless and a laptop, so she's been studiously ignoring me as much as I've been working on my various projects. She also turns her back when I make my sandwiches in the morning.

Semi-unrelated, it's not July yet, and I've already surpassed the halfway point of my hours for the credit I'm getting. I wonder whether this will make it all the way up to the full set - if it does, I'm going to feel a little miffed, but really, working in both of these places is good experience for me - they both get crowded and hectic and they both have dead spots. Activity is good, but when it ramps up to the breakneck pace, things get a little hairy.

Completely unrelated from work, it appears that people like to schedule things all on the same date, at the same time. I'll be missing out on one meeting to attend a different one that's more important, with the possible consequence of not doing summer softball officiating. Which won't make me too sad if it happens, but book money is still nice to have.

Perhaps if my printer/scanner gets fixed in a CUPS release, I can start scanning in some of the drawings I've doodled in programming or at dead desk time (actually, I have played the Wikipedia link-following game a couple times, and its been fascinating. From World Cup, I ended up in places like the Marquis of Queensbury rules and the black card for fencing. A hyper-encyclopedia makes for some interesting cross-references. I wonder, has anyone subjected Wikipedia to a small-world test? And if they did, does it pass?

Wow. Rambled from one end to the other and made it work. Time for bed, I suspect.