Periodicals

Oh the news, the news. What was in the news today? It's been an interesting few hours.

*An especially strong, mentally challenged man launched an entire cathedral at Silvio Berlusconi's face. Terrible.

* The number of medical marijuana facilities in Los Angeles County just surpassed the number of Starbucks and McDonald's franchises combined. This is awesome. I don't care where you fall in the argument about MM. Pot is, hands down, better for Californians' health than both Starbucks and McDonald's combined.

* Twenty-two million emails from the Bush administration were recovered in an effort by two groups to sort out what actually took place over the course of 33 especially crucial days a few years back. In related news, a personal assistant to former vice-president Dick Cheney was inexplicably shot in the face with a shotgun after he informed Cheney that the "Delete" function just sends files to the Recycle Bin in Windows and doesn't actually delete anything.

* The main index in Dubai jumped about 10% on news that Dubai World is getting bailed out by Abu Dhabi. It turns out someone actually still sees value in the world's most difficult fucking golf course.

Things are generally quiet here. I haven't opened a trading chart in over 48 hours and it feels gooOOOOooood. It's like I'm on vacation. Since going live again on Nov 12, I've posted 25.3%. Now I'm on human leave, no longer a slave to teh charts until the new year.

If you're in a Pacific country, you've been celebrating my birthday for about 10 hours. If you're in western Europe, you've been getting crazy for about 2. And if you're in the states, you're probably just sitting around, holding your breath and counting down the minutes with your champagne bottles in-hand.

I just slammed a preemptive, celebratory bowl of macaroni. And I haven't a thing to do all night. This is ridiculous. It's awesome. I feel like a kid again and might go build a fort. I might actually... read...???

I stopped by Whole Foods on Saturday and got a couple bags of chestnuts. I made a meal out of them on Saturday afternoon and might cook some later tonight. Otherwise, I might just do Key Lime Pie. These are the hardest decisions I make over the course of any single day. Failing printers, data backup and system stability come in a distant second to key lime pie.

>>No music. Quiet.