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You know you’re going to have a fun day when your first activity upon leaving the bedroom in the morning and wandering downstairs for breakfast is to vanquish hundreds of itty bitty pests. Stupid ants. They were making a meal of the kitties’ food, so I moved and washed and sprayed and cleaned and so forth (being careful not to get anything anywhere near cat vittles as well as making sure the floor was well cleaned afterward, thank you).

Well, okay. I actually did have a fun day: The kidlets came over, and we played Freeloader, Unexploded Cow and Carcassonne: The Discovery. Erica came from behind to win the first, I clobbered the kids at the second and Alex ran away with the third. I’d say that’s a fair and balanced afternoon of gaming, wouldn’t you?

One of the things that makes life worth the living, especially on a day fraught with frustrations, is an hour spent in the company of good friends.

Thank you, Mari & Doug, for treating me to lunch today. I really needed it! You guys rock.

(What? You wanted a longer post? Too bad; I wrote my novella for the week yesterday. So there.)

When you work in the radio business, you very quickly learn to hate the annual onset of a particular season. No, I’m not talking about what we’ve come to call “the holidays,” but rather another phenomenon entirely: Political season.

Sure, everyone hates having to put up with the ever-increasing barrage of mudslinging ads and heartfelt appeals to vote such-and-such on measure what-have-you. On the consumer side of things, though, you have the option of changing the channel or at least hitting the Mute button on your remote control. Working in the media, however, one cannot simply turn away or turn off. One must endure. Once that blessed Tuesday in November has passed, life can return to normal.

That is, if you can call nearly two solid months of jingle-bells mania “normal.” But at least it isn’t poorly-produced political crap.

For the first time in fourteen years, I wasn’t working “in the industry” during political season. As silver linings go, I’ve seen worse…

I could tell you all about my workday and how it centered on Veritas’ Symantec’s Backup Exec product. I could tell you about the monsoon rains that kept me up most of the night and contributed to the nigh-interminable commute home this evening.

Instead, however, I’ll illustrate how weird my Monday was by stating that today, shortly after lunch, my mother called to say that she loves me.

That will be all.