words are very unnecessary | they can only do harm

i know i haven't posted, but noone reads it and i just did it because of the mss one, anyway, and hopefully maybe to get g-mail. that would be awesome. a whole gig of memory. also i can really say what i want, post when i want (like every two months ;), rant if I want, and not worry about offending people or getting mass e-mails when they think i'm depressed. which, for the record, i am not. although it is an intriguing way of getting people to e-mail me more often. hmm... okay i am not that devious.

well if anyone should stumble across this i guess i should make it somewhat interesting. except that i don't think that i'm that interesting. for starters, in case you the faceless reader should care, the name of this blog is also my dog's name which is taken from the last name of my favorite character from my favorite book. if you know who it is and the book, nice. gold star for you. if not, then well, deal because i'm not going to say what it is. more fun that way. i'm just impressed that noone else has taken it. usually a name i want is taken and i end up with something dumb like bennet47295.

i have a headache today from staring at the computer screen. i hate reading manuals. but i have to and i just hope that i can remember all that i'm reading because my mind keeps wandering. not that it's that hard to distract me. i think i have undiagnosed add.

philosophical thought for the day: i often wonder what it would have been like if i had done what i thought i would, which is not this, working in the space industry. i never thought about it. certainly never thought i would be in germany. i thought that maybe i would be a park ranger working at tahoe. instead, i am an engineer with a desk job and i have a friend who is a park ranger at yosemite. weird how life is. i like my life and am happy and don't want to change it, but still, i wonder...