Reston

Pretty darned good day today. Only 90 minutes of work, a nice lunch with kitiara at an Italian restaurant I'd never have found on my own, a shopping trip through a bookstore that had a bigger magazine section than some bookstores have books, and some good tunes. I thought it entertaining that the first song I heard after lunch with Kit (yes those eyes do have their own gravitational pull) has the phrase, "I love the way you smack my ass." :-)

Now, to deal with the joy of flying back home tomorow. Woohoo.

Hot dogs

In the course of a completely random meandering talk with Kit (covering the NSA and Mountain Dew cans, Southern cooking and paperfolding), it came up that you buy flatware in settings for 4 (most of us do anyway - if you have "a pattern" you don't count), yet steak knives in sets of 6.

Hot dogs and buns. What is the point? I now have 8 sets of dishes except for steak knives. I guess I'm unlikely to be serving steak to more than 6 people, so I'll let it go. Otherwise, it ends at 24. Imagine buying 2 dozen sets of silverware just so you have an even number. Even I'm not that nuts.

From Salon.com

The total amount of sweetheart insider loans doled out to John Rigas (Adelphia), Bernie Ebbers (WorldCom), Stephen Hilbert (Conseco), Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco) and Ken Lay (Enron) was $3.9 billion.

With $3.9 billion, you could:

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I think I need to get this album

I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me ill
You keep makin' me ill

LOL

Jimmy Fallon's Idiot Boyfriend video is hilarious. hehe