Good Day To You, Fellows

It's been a while. Much has gone down:

1) So long, Austin! I hate you.

2) Swarlos is doing just fine. He still walks with a limp, and perhaps he always will, but he shows no apparent signs of pain and is jumping and playing and frolicking as a puppy should. He likes having Oscar (pictured here looking unusually majestic) around but he always wants to play and the age difference is a little rough. It's like asking a 70 year old man to go for a jog with you, and then when he says he's too tired you bite him in the face. Oscar exacts his revenge by drinking every last drop of Swarley's water no matter how full the bowl or how distended his stomach--it's an odd method of asserting dominance but he's arthritic so traditional mounting is problematic.

3) I got a job as a web developer at--wait for it--Abercrombie & Fitch. It's tough to describe without sounding like I'm exaggerating. Imagine one of their stores with a bunch of cubicles wedged in. By far the weirdest thing is that all the old people wear Hollister. I can't blame them, it's the only brand with even remotely reasonably priced merchandise, but it looks like they all decided to dress up as their kids for Halloween. The other weird thing is that the home office is a place of business like any other place of business, yet they play the store CD on permanent loop and have giant murals of largely naked people everywhere. The 16x10 foot naked people fade into the background pretty quick, but the store CD is a little harder to deal with. It's only like a 45 minute CD and a 9 hour work day. I got Rick Rollled, without exaggeration, 5 dozen times in the first week. I quit the following Monday.

4) I got a job at Franklin University. Ahh, this is a little more my speed. For one thing, I'm sitting in my nice quiet office right now having myself a good blog. Mmmmmmmmmm. Secondly, I don't feel like I'm contributing to the desctruction of society. Third and most importantly, it was only about 3 hours into my first day before the subject of pooping into a ziplock bag came up. Yes, these are my people. So I'm a Business Analyst here, and what I do is--well, no one has been able to effectively describe it to me. The best explanation I have received so far is that I'm essentially the "Loose a Turn" guy on Office Space. I'M A PEOPLE PERSON, DAMN IT!

5) Lizett is studying full time for the bar. She hates it.

6) Some other stuff has happened. Babyfest 08 in NC, for example! Looks like I'm going to have some time, I'll get to it. I'll get to it to the max.