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I really need to write here more. Things have been very busy, as usual. Work is crazy and on top of that, I’ve been paying some more attention to my resume lately. After I returned from vacation, I was a bit behind in classwork and I’m still trying to set aside time for that. I’ve been doing well selling some old books I no longer need.

When does life slow down?

In any case — or casemod as the case — or casemod — may be, take a look at what my evil twin has been up to.

The agents of Improv Everywhere are my new heroes. The Anton Chekov mission is an old one, and I remember reading about their U2 mission a few months ago. I want to be part of a mission…

The Theory of Gravity, like the Theory of Evolution, has not been “proven.” Now there are some who, like those who counter evolution with “Intelligent Design,” counter gravity with the Theory of Intelligent Falling.

“Gravity–which is taught to our children as a law–is founded on great gaps in understanding. The laws predict the mutual force between all bodies of mass, but they cannot explain that force. Isaac Newton himself said, ‘I suspect that my theories may all depend upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in vain.’ Of course, he is alluding to a higher power.”

The last quote of the article is priceless. Just keep in mind the source of the story.

A music teacher in Manhattan was calling in sick so she could take time off from school to conduct the New York Scandia Symphony, a symphony she founded, in public rehearsals and performances.

Amy and I returned from Williamsburg, Virginia last night. It was a great vacation, but certainly not long enough. The weekend was a bit hot for spending hours walking outdoors, but we survived and I’m not even that sunburnt.

There are so many things to do in Colonial Williamsburg, it took two days to do it all. There were even a few things we would have liked to do if there were more time, but I think we reached a reasonable limit.

Doobie mentioned the haunted houses in Williamsburg. The employees/characters I spoke to didn’t really seem interested in the haunts, but we did take the Legends, Mysteries and Myths tour in Colonial Williamsburg at night. It wasn’t quite a tour of the haunted houses; it was just a collection of ghost stories told by three characters in a few locations around town. It was still fun, though.

On the way down, we stopped to visit Becca for lunch and to wish her a happy birthday. The three of us walked around BrickFest (prior to its public opening) and saw just what dedicated people can do with Legos. Becca posted her photo of Lego Homer Simpson already, and I’ll have more photographs online eventually. (In my opinion, the most impressive was the Lego Indianapolis Speedway, complete with cars and spectators.

Aside from that, there seems to be a proportionally high number of Star Wars fans among Lego enthusiasts.

Now it’s time to plan the next vacation.

Tonight is perseid night! The meteor shower is again at its peak. Unfortunately the weather calls for clouds.

I find the concept of sleep unappealing… until it’s time to wake up.

When I woke up this morning, I had a feeling that staying in bed would have been the ebst option for the day. I should learn to trust my instincts.

Now, nothing necessarily “bad” happened today, I’ve just been a bit grumpy. And I hate being grumpy, so being grumpy just makes me grumpier. There’s probably a hint of self-fulfilling prophecy involved, too.

It has been six years since I’ve had so much drum corps in one weekend. I was able to take some gratis time off from work on Friday, so I snuck out a few hours early and drove to Allentown for part one of the DCI East Championships. Although I went by myself, it didn’t take long for me to run into old friends and talkative strangers.

I took Amy with me back to Allentown on Saturday for part two of the Championships. It wasn’t her first drum corps show — we had gone last summer to a local show — but I was happy she found a couple of things to enjoy about it. I’m just working on accepting that it’s not her thing. We followed the show with some ice cream from the Friendly’s in town.

Despite this, I had earlier volunteered her to help out at Sunday’s show at Giants Stadium. Well, at least she doesn’t completely hate me right now. I think there were times she actually enjoyed parts of the show. Afterwards, we stopped for dinner at a local generic Friday’s-type restaurant (the organization we volunteered for isn’t the best when it comes to feeding volunteers, but that’s all right).

Now, all of my attention will be on our upcoming trip to Williamsburg… until tomorrow, when my next class begins and I have to split my attention yet again.

Cameron and Damien are identical twins who are trying to get cast on a television show called The Amazing Race. All I really know about the show is that Barb likes it a lot. But Cameron’s website, CamWorld, was one of the first blogs I ever noticed, before I knew that there were such things as weblogs. At the time, I was more concerned with plain old manually-updated websites. Cam’s archives go back to 1997, and even then they’re more “weblog” than “journal.” In 1997, people were doing journals. Now, of course, many of the weblogs have become journals.

Anyway… I should get some sleep.

Check him out and spread the word; he and his brother would make a good team.