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Can anyone recommend a good book about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire?

PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION
For those curious, my “personality type” is XNFP. X means I’m split between introverted and extroverted. The rest means I’m intuituve, feeling and perceptive. I’ve taken various tests with the same results various times over the past five years. So I guess it must be kind of accurate.

IT’S RAINING!
Now listening to the soundtrack to Gladiator (the movie). Nice. Good work, Hans Zimmer. I knew you had it in you. :>

Today I went to a mini Rennaisance Fair(e) at Mercer County Park. It really doesn’t compare to the Pennsylvania Ren Faire I went to a few years ago, but there were some interesting goods for sale and a mildly entertaining joust. It’s always interesting to see the people who dress up for these events and how they manage to get into the whole Rennasaince idea so deeply.

UGH
So, I’m still listening to the Gladiator soundtrack… and on comes track 13. Oh boy. You thought John Williams ripped off Holst’s Mars (from The Planets) for Star Wars? This track really gives the world plagiarism a whole new meaning!

Still a great soundtrack otherwise.

Hey, my webcam is actually featured on the MetaCamPage (along with many others). Now I almost feel compelled to sit in front of my computer with the camera running more. Thanks to David Gagne for setting that site up.

WHAT DID I DO?
Yep, if you look carefully, you might notice that I redesigned this site a little bit. It’s still not done. I don’t like all the colors and the graphic on top is still ugly… so stay tuned for some more changes.

CORRECTION AND RETRACTION
In a previous entry, I said regarding the movie Gladiator that none of it was historically accurate. As pointed out to me by Darren, many of the characters did exist. Which of course I knew — it’s just the events which are not historically accurate. Though I am sure many the characters were not accurate in themselves, at least some of the names are true.

This morning, when I woke up, I found myself lying with my head where my feet normally are and my feet where my head normally is. The pillow had moved from one end of the bed to the other. I’m not quite sure why things like this happen to me. A few weeks ago, I went to sleep with three layers of shorts on, and I woke up with only the middle layer on. Can anyone tell me what the deal is here?

PAGAN FOR COUNCIL?
I passed one of those campaign signs stuck in the ground on the way to work today. They guy’s name was Michael Pagan. And in the tradition of campaign signs, the last name is always huge. It looked sort of like this:

I just thought it was amusing.

MORE RELIEF IS A GOOD THING
Yes! I now have air conditioning in my apartment! Yes!