Surfin' and burpin'

Wow... yet one more way to make a family. I found that while looking for an article on how MA hasn't ruled on gay marriage yet... not that there's any news there. They just haven't ruled. (Of course, I should maybe have stuck with my usual policy of not reading the news. This article makes it sound like I should basically stay at DSB or get out of programming. Sigh.)

I seem to be very belchy after drinking my BetaGen. I can't find anything linking belching with either creatine or glutamine, so either it's one of the other ingredients or I just happen to be belchy. Any ideas, bluechromis, webfaery?

I'd like to post about something else today too, but it'll depend on how work goes.

Top 10 Jobs for People Who....

I've been doing some quick career-related angsting (try it sometime... it's refreshing in a horrible way). Most of my angst involves how to afford staying in Boston if the software industry is really dying (or if I want to get out of it, or partially out of it) and keep a job I like, and how important to me is it to make a lot of money, anyway, and... well, you'll be hearing about all those things at length in a few more months. In the meantime I found this great link Top Ten Jobs for People Who... like to keep learning, can't stand ties or pantyhose, love people, etc. I like it. I printed it out. Perhaps I will scare my coworkers by keeping it visible on my desk for a while.

A dialogue, and small follow-up type things.

soyfetus in the morning: slackety-do-dah, slackety-ay...
software: doop de doop, all is well
soyfetus in the afternoon: no! i must focus and be good!
software: in that case i do believe i'll start crashing.
soyfetus: no no no. i really am going to focus and get things done.
software: i can crash harder than you can focus.
soyfetus: *focus focus*
software: *crashety crash crash*
soyfetus: you win.

Tonight editor bear's workgroup is reviewing my story in my absence... which is not due to tango class after all since the nice instructor is sick, but I didn' t feel like going and sitting in the smoke, so I didn't tell them my plans had changed. Editor bear can champion it well enough, and HLM and I should practice anyway.

Also: Lemmings for the PC is indeed no longer being sold commercially. It is, however, selling for inflated prices on ebay, so I could get it if I really wanted it. The bad news is that it only runs in DOS mode, so it wouldn't really work out as something to play off and on at work. Probably a good thing (see implied desire for more focus, above).

Also: I walked home in an attempt to get some of my usual Tuesday exercise, which is light enough to begin with. I stopped in and asked the pizza guy what Oakenfold album he was playing last week, and not only did he think I was not weird for asking, he remembered--and not only that, it was the one I ordered last week! Journey by DJ 5! I'm very happy about that.