i had one of those really annoying drives to work today...the kind where everybody just seems to be getting in your way, you know the type. and everybody else is driving like they're in some kind of monday morning trance, or something. at one point i was behind a ford pickup with all sorts of ladders and other protrutions sticking out the back, and there was one mile until my exit, but the next lane was blocked by somebody driving the exact same speed as the pickup...so, in order to pass i would've had to go all the way over to the fast lane and get back over before my exit came up.

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now you're probably thinking, why not just stay in that stupid lane for one more mile...it wouldn't kill you. on the contrary, p and i were having this very conversation just the other day. you see, i subscribe to the belief that 90% of all human beings are incompetent (p believes it's 80%, but i'm afraid i just don't have that much faith), and the likelyhood that the guy that packed up all those protrutions on to the back of his pickup truck  is a member of the 10% i would trust to have done it safely and properly quite frankly just isn't very believable to me. so, therefore, it may have killed me to have stayed behind him.

but, the writing of this entry shows you that i survived the ordeal and made it in time to work with all my appendages and such in tact.

today is my buddy, nikki's birthday, i plan to call her later today, and i sent her an e-card, but i still feel guilty, because i had intended to get her a gift certificate for a manicure or a facial or something and send it to her, but procrastination got the better of me, once again, and i never got around to it. she lives in iowa, and i would've had to call someplace and have them mail it to her for me, and the possibilities of the hassles and the things that could get fucked up made me put it off until it was too late. (another result of my lack of faith in people)...i used to be an optimist...really!!

ps...i added a new desktop to my 'free stuff' page for those of you who use macs.