Question of the Day

N.B. This is a two-part question. You may answer the second question
only, but if you answer the first question, you are required to answer
the second question as well.

Part 1: What about 2007 do you hope does not repeat itself in 2008?

Part 2: What about 2007 do you hope does repeat itself in 2008?

This Is Depressing!

So Tiger Direct is offering what looks like a fabulous computer at a
fabulous price. Trouble is, as wonderful as the price is, 4 hours only,
I don't have four hundred bucks to blow right at the moment. Talk to me
in six months and I should be able to swing it, I definitely need a new
computer. But Arg!

Painting a Word Picture

I'm sitting here in my office chair. I'm proofreading a biology book,
the chapter on fungus. Beside me sits Caroline, who has come to spend
the afternoon with me at work. Caroline finds it too warm, I'm
comfortable. She's discovered the 1.5-litre bottles of water we have up
here. I just reached over and held her hands in mine. Debbie's working
in her office space in front of me. Cheryl's at the office too, I don't
know if anyone else is. IT's very quiet here at work today, nobody in
their right mind shows up for work on December 31, when December 31 is a
Monday, but here I am, and here is Caroline to share it with me. Ahead
of me is half a Coke. To the right of the book I'm proofreading is a
movie on DVD that just arrived today, a Dr. Kildare movie.

And so that's the picture as it now stands.