I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh...


The above sigh of relief is brought to you by Burning Man.
Yes, Burning Man, that annual pilgrimage to a land far far away where anything goes. Or something.
Heck, there's even a movie about it now!
Anyway, my brother is going. He's all packed up, he left my place this morning to join his traveling group,
and they're all heading out tonight at 2-3am. The sibling is with the Pink Pussy Posse again, just like the
two previous times he's been at Burning Man, and he will be DJing atop their big pink double-decker bus.

So why the sigh of relief?
Because he's gonna be completely out of my hair for 10 WHOLE DAYS!!
That's like a vacation right there! I actually have time for myself! ME! MOI! I!!
I spent the last week downloading music, ripping CDS, burning compilation CDs, designing and printing labels,
cutting labels, applying labels to burnt CDs, plus all the other Zed Productions stuff like e-mails and site updates.
We were up last night until 4am, and there's still stuff I didn't have time to do.
But for now, it's done.
I'm so happy.
I may weep openly...

("Hey Sam, where do you keep that gun?" "None of your beeswax, Max.")


Meanwhile, back at the Amp'd Ranch, we were supposed to move and get desks this week.
But that didn't happen. Again.
Now, the scuttlebutt says we're moving on Friday of next week.
Man, I sure hope that happens.
I've been sitting at a (large) folding table ever since I started working here and I'm sick of it.
I have to carry all my gear with me since I have no drawers.
I'm looking forward to lightening my load, finally.
Then I can decorate my area with festive death machines and implements of destruction.

I mean, we've added so many people since February, it's getting ridiculous!
There are folding tables everywhere and people sitting in aisles!
Yesterday, we had to accomodate an extra person and we wound up making a chicane in the process!
That's when I discovered that none of my coworkers know what a "chicane" is.
Well, golly, they sure as heck don't have chicanes in NASCAR! Or maybe even in Indy/Champ/Whatever racing.


And speaking of ignorance, I came across a trivia question today whose answers were all WRONG.
I downloaded a game called "Pop Trivia" to my cellphone, and the first question it put to me was:
"Who was the first woman in space?"
I know that one!
I looked at the four choices the game gave you, and they were all WRONG!
There was Sally Ride, Shannon Lucid, Christa McAuliffe and Judith Resnik.
And yeah, all these women went into space, and Sally Ride was the first of that group, BUT!
The correct answer was, is, and always will be: Valentina Tereshkova.
Gee, ya think that question should be rephrased a little?
Like, "who was the first American woman in space"?!?
Sheesh...


There's more content to come, including Netflixing and the photos of various events I've been promising.
I went to Hot Imports Night (warning: noisy) last Saturday and took 97 photos with my test
Motorola RAZR cellphone (1.4 megapixels, wooooooooh!!). It was fun but pretty dark in there though.
It was like a Fast And Furious Auto Show with nightclub overtones.
I snagged free wristbands from work and tried to find someone to come with, but my two people cancelled.
So I went alone.


More later...

Line?

It occurs to me that I never provided the missing answers to the last Movie Quote meme.
So here we go!


01) "The funky spaceman over there is Mr. Cooper. What exactly is it you do on board this ship, Coop?"
Event Horizon - spoken by Larry Fishburne, captain of the Lewis And Clark.

06) "Come on, read my future for me." - "You haven't got any." - "What do you mean?" - "Your future is all used up."
Touch Of Evil - which is the movie alluded to in Quote 05 of this meme. Tee-hee!

07) "You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go."
THX-1138 - spoken by one of the chrome-faced policebots

09) "Carrots? Why is it always carrots? I didn't even eat carrots!"
Atlantis: The Lost Empire" - spoken by Milo Thatch after getting all seasick.

18) "Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever."
The Shining - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.


Thank you for playing!