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Monday : 06 March 2006
Today was pretty good, even for a Monday. I tackled a couple of problems at work that had been hanging around. That felt good. I also got a favorable response/green light to a project that I want to try. That felt pretty good, too.

Tonight, was D&D night at ‘. No one died. Well, no one in our group… although ‘s character gave it the old college try. Even though we got a late start, it was a fun session.

Stray Toasters

• My mother occasionally sends me “Daily Thought” emails. It’s sweet. I really liked the one that she sent today:
  

  “All grown-ups were once children. (But few of them remember it).”
  –Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• pointed me in the direction of The Juggernaut, Bitch! It was both wrong and funny, on so many levels.
• Survey of telecommuters’ not-so-secret habits
• “Why on Earth do you need to build a space station? Explain this.”
  “Why off Earth, actually. That’s the beauty of this! It’s perfect.”
  

• Top 10 Strangest LEGO Creations
• From the “Horrible Title, but Cool Article” file: Origami artists use a little elbow crease
• Dark Portrait of a ‘Painter of Light’
• Istanbul was Constantinople
  Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
  Been a long time gone
  Old Constantinople’s still has Turkish delight
  On a moonlight night

• – This I Believe: The People Who Love You When No One Else Will
• It looks as if they are still trying to move forward with a fourth Indiana Jones movie. Hrm.

Namaste.