What's the deal with that hideous Quiznos' commercial with the billybob-teethed mice with the funky eyes? Seeing rats and food together is supposed to make us hungry? Yucka.

Tried some Blue Bunny Health Smart sugar-free (sweetened with Splenda), fat-free ice cream bars (Fudge & Vanilla, and Chocolate Fudge flavors). Mmmm.

Henry James is excessively fond of using sentences that are, in my estimation, too long, and, perhaps, a tad overly complicated - riddled with commas, not unlike this sentence, in fact. Here's a quote (please note it's a single sentence) from chapter thirteen (page 50 in the Dover Thrift Edition, unabridged) of "The Turn of The Screw" (an excellent ghost story of which I'm nearing completion):

"They had a delightful endless appetite for passages in my own history, to which I had again and again treated them; they were in possession of everything that had ever happened to me, had had, with every circumstance the story of my smallest adventures and of those of my brothers and sisters and of the cat and the dog at home, as well as many particulars of the eccentric nature of my father, of the furniture and arrangement of our house, and of the conversation of the old women of our village."

I feel Henry James would've made a fine computer programmer - his thoughts often seem to be structured like nested statements in functions.

Tried some Lightlife Smart Bacon - meatless, low fat, cholesterol-free, soy-based 'bacon' strips. I honestly expected these to be utterly nasty, but they're actually not too bad. I initially overcooked them, since they don't really cook like bacon does, so they were a tad crispy, but the second round should be better. They kind of reminded me of those "Beggin' Strips" for dogs, though...

Tried some "AquaDrops" brand hydrating mints. There are currently two flavors, Mint and Citrus. I don't like the mint flavor, they're a little too minty for me. (Go figure.) I fixed our gas 'fireplace' this weekend. It's one of those 'fake' fireplaces with the ceramic logs that rarely heats up anything further than 6" away. Anyway, it's a bit quirky, but it works now, and it actually does get fairly hot, even about 3' away. Gone is the propane smell that leaked into the room even when it was shut off, and now ever-present is a large pilot light instead.

Missed the Hillary Duff concert in town on Saturday. New virii over the weekend: Beagle.C, Beagle.D, Beagle.E, Beagle.F, Beagle.G, Beagle.H, and Netsky.D and Netsky.E. Fun stuff!   =)

It's funny working in the IT department for a nonprofit company, as you sometimes get exposed to conflicting acronyms, such as "OCS". To a nonprofit company, OCS stands for Office of Community Services (part of the U.S. Federal Government's Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Childrens and Families), but to an IT guy, OCS stands for Open Content Syndication (an XML format for newsfeed subscriptions).