Welcome to the future

I paid my car insurance tonight. By using voice recognition software, the insurance company gives the impression that I am dealing with an android. Just don't give it the launch codes or control of the automated hunter/killer factories, please.

Party like it's 1999

The party had to get a little out of hand. The landlord apparently decided to voice his displeasure by turning off the water to the whole building. Who cares when you're drunk enough to gnaw on your roommate's Parrot Pirate costume. Without worrying about avian flu, even.

Tools

Fixing something with hand tools makes me feel like a man, a civilized man. Even better, though, as when the tools fail, and only the MF hammer can get the job done. When old number one does the trick, THAT is fixing something.

Those gas prices

Still holding right at $3.00 a gallon around here. I'm not imagining that the oil companies are making a killing off of Iraq and Katrina, am I?

Alo. Salut.

I thought about a Katrina-related post a month or so ago, but then the storm knocked the power out for a couple hours. By the time the lights came back on, I had been reading "Assault in Norway" by candlelight, an I had to finish. Nothing like reading about Norwegian commandos living off reindeer stomach (best source of vitamin C on the plateau) before they sabotage the Nazi heavy water plant to take the mind off the howling wind outside. Of course, no storm surge 6 hours inland, so no dying of dehydration in my own waste. But man, those gas prices were tough! When will they get back down, already?