So today was my first day back at the office after my little vacation jaunt back home. I had plenty of stuff to do, but I just couldn’t get back in the groove to get any of it done. I guess tomorrow will be my catch-up day.

I talked with a friend this weekend, and we kind of both had the same plan to quite working so much… to start keeping normal hours. I kind of blew that today. I mean, I didn’t really do anything, but I always get these little bursts of energy at the end of the day, so I finally started doing work around 7pm. Ugh. I e-mailed her to see if she made it out, and not response so hopefully she pulled of her exit strategy.

I keep meaning to give some highlights of my trip back home, but I never quite feel like jotting them down when I’m sitting near the computer. Here’s something… I had planned on jamming with the iPOD all the way home, but the rental car I end up with only had a CD player. I grabbed a few CDs before I left, but not nearly enough. So, while I was home, I made a couple of trips to some used CD stores and bought some stuff for the trip back. It’s fun to buy stuff you’d have no intention of paying full price for. Many of my selections were stuff I had on cassette way back in the day. Stuff like Pseudo Echo’s Love an Adventure – they covered “Funkytown” — it wasn’t nearly as cool as I remembered. The CD that is suprising me now is David Lee Roth’s Skyscraper. It’s actually holding up suprisingly well.

In an effort to waste even more money, I ordered a tiny, really, really cheap, digital camera today. It comes inside a Zippo lighter. It holds up to 300 pix. I figure if it takes even fair pix, it’ll be fun to carry around everywhere when I don’t feel like lugging around the big one. Plus, since it looks like a Zippo, I’ll be able to take it into shows. No flash, but maybe if i can get close enough, the stage lights will be enough. Of course this thing might be a total loss, like X-ray Spex… we”ll see.

PIX OF THE DAY: What was waiting for me back at the office.
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