Asymptomatic

We’re going to need to look into these Japanese-designed strollers for when Number Two comes along.

You probably haven’t noticed, but I’m trying to change. I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks (months?) working on public projects. Significant amounts of my time have gone into making WordPress better, not just with the hacks I’ve written, but with a couple of core code changes. I have also been beta-testing some software from MicroOLAP hoping to make it better before it’s released. And there’s always the Blog Breakdown chart, which possibly started me on this whole new direction.

Woot.com has only one tech item for sale every day, and it’s usually pretty cheap.

Realize that I did not take driver’s ed. in school because I wasn’t as inclined to be driving as all of my older classmates. Nonetheless, I took my driver’s test, passing both the written and driving tests on my first try. Nowhere in my memory did the driving manual say anything about hanging a rag out of the driver’s side window when abandoning my car.

I’ve seen a few cars lately that have done this. They were left in odd places, too. I suppose that there must be some reason for leaving a t-shirt or a towel, usually white, rolled up in the driver’s side window, otherwise not so many people would do it.

Some mornings under the window in my bedroom, nightmares of nuclear holocaust would awaken me to staring blinded at the new sun in the window. I would know that I was awake, but the dreams were so fresh that the contrast in light from closed eyes to morning sun would convince me that the bombing had begun and I was just a microsecond from being crisply well-done.

Those heartbeats of fear before realization are nothing like the doom that lingers over me these days of war over oil.