Mr. McMurphey has come out with this years holiday schedule and it looks, at first glance, that one Bob A. Booey will only "work" two days the week of Allahmas and two days the following week, due to the fact that Allahmas and New Years day fall on a Tuesday. Frankly I'm all for the two day work week, in fact I can really put my best effort forward and really be a team player if I only have to show up for two days.

Cheaters never prosper uh, they never get away with cheating! Rat bastards. No sir, if you're stealing office supplies (you know who you are) or taking HGH to get more zip on the fastball or not being completely forthright on your tax returns you can be certain it one day it will catch up with you. The really sad thing here is that it didn't have to go down this way if only Oprah (GIRLFRIEND!!) had come out against steroids. Had Oprah (GIRLFRIEND!!) made a statement that steroids are bad these players would have known not to use them. So ultimately the blame for the steroid era in baseball falls squarely on the shoulders of Oprah (GIRLFRIEND!!). For shame.

I played about with Sun Studio for a bit last night and other than the fact that it's written in Java¹ it's not awful, it's slowish (thanks Java¹), fer sure, but it's quite usable.. In fact I compiled a 64 bit version of Hello World (The Ultra 60 is a 64 bit machine and S10 is a 64 bit OS - ipso facto) that ran amazingly fast (I'm not even going to talk about running nethack in 64 bit mode).

In fact if anyone out there is still running a 32 bit version of Hello World, well, SUCKS TO BE YOU cause I'm kicking your arse all over the place. I must say that I'm making the move from Gnome to CDE as the CDE desktop is much quicker. Much quicker. Sure Gnome looks nice, but some of those neat features/bloat (tabbed terminals etc) really slow things down. The smelly tree-hugging hippies could learn a lesson from the blokes who built CDE, it's not the most attractive thing to look at but it's built for people who want to get work done. I.e., when you click on stuff shit happens NOW.

And finally one of the neat features of the Ultra 60 that wasn't advertised was how it helps to keep your room toasty warm in the cold Winter months. Seriously, she pumps out a constant stream of heat from the back vents by the power supply and the vents by the dual procs.

I'll be having a grilled chicken salad for lunch today, along with a Styrofoam bowl of chicken gumbo, with chicken being the theme for todays lunch. Indeed, I stepped on the scales this morning and I'm at EXACTLY 175 lbs, so even if I put on a few over the next couple weeks (tis the season to eat crap like a motherfucker, cause that's what Jesus was all about) I'll still be within my normal range which is around 172 to 180. So all you HHNFC blokes put that up your nose and smoke it, as it were.

Right. Go Browns and go SNOW (we're supposed to get 10 feet of snow) and have a right good weekend.

[1] - The horrible ponderously slow programming language, not the refreshing beverage.