Processing with the power of words

I now have a word processor on my computer. Until today, when ever I typed stuff up, I'd just use notepad, but I finally found enough time to download open office. What I've seen of it so far, I like. It's like Microsoft Professional office, but with even more officey goodness, not that I'll use spread sheets, but it's there in case I need it. In case anyone wants a copy of Open Office, one can go to openoffice.org . It's worth the download, and even worth donating to.

Finally got the Luca Turilli CD in. Demonheart is a good albumn, it's just a little short on songs. But it does has a harpsicord. How many modern bands have that? And I do not mean a synthetic harpsicord sound, I mean a real harpsicord. Of course the vocalist isn't that good, but what does one expect from a band that focuses on the instrumental? Add to that that this band is basicly an offshoot of Rhapsody, and one finds why the vocals aren't the world's best.

These past two days felt like they would never end. They have just been long. Really long. And it doesn't help that I'm not the happiest person during the holiday season. Well, I guess I'm really not the happiest person, regardless of the season, but it just seems worse right now. At least I'm starting to feel the good effects of leaving the lab. My head no longer feels like it's going to explode from stress, and I now have time to sleep. I don't know how my check book feels about my idea, but I'll find that out soon enough. But I am happy I left the lab. It just wasn't worth the effort I put in their, and the amount of time I spent getting their. Of course, a few other things in life feel that way right now, but they always do, so no neeed to worry.

Today at work my manger and I got to know the fun of moving all the junk out of our storage unit into the empty office in our second location. There were two truck loads worth of stuff in the storage unit. Two very heavy truck loads, that aren't easy to lift. Tables and boxes and desks and things. But I got an extra hour out of the day, and I got to leanr that the IT department is way over budget. My boss, who gets overtime almost every week, was budgeted as part time at the begining of the year, and I myself, who almost has fulltime hours, was budgetted for 19 hours a week. That's a minor change in the budget. But I might have been better off with out this knowldage, for I'll probally end up thinking that it's my fault that the IT department is over budget, despite the fact that this type of thinking makes no sense. But when it comes to nonsense and overly paranoid thinking, I am in no short supply.

I'm thinking about making minor changes to my blog. I'm not too certain what I'd want to do, but maybe something to snaz it up a little. You know, maybe some javascript or something. Or maybe something differnt. Or maybe just a new way to display posts or something. I don't know. I know it looks nice how it is, and I really don't want to mess with that, but there has to be some other ways to make the blog look nicer, right?

Right now, I'm working on another story. I'm going to write up a decent bio for the Silhouetted Lynx, that others may want to read. If it all goes well, I'll have it posted on my blog the next time I post. But judging by the last story I started, which is still sitting unworked on, it might take a whil.

Anyway, I'm going to log. Night!