I'm so glad to be back at work...

... I can use the rest.

I seem to be having touble typing this morning. Not sure why, but there's a peculiar numbness in my right bicep that makes the sensation of typing seem off, somehow. Disciplined touch-typing exercises have allowed me to have most of my speed, but I find myself going back a lot and fixing finger-induced typos. It's very annoying.

Sunday was as hectic as Saturday. We fed the kids scrambled eggs for breakfast, then hurtled over to Radio Shack so Omaha could pick up more components for her personalized Internet audio station, since she needs to do the show by herself on Monday, and then I ran up to Capitol Hill to help her friend Sean finish packing up and moving out.

I got home to find that all four burns of video I'd done for FallenPegasus had completed and worked adequately, although I'm trying an alternative method right now to see if that works. And then he reminds me that I need to keep the ISO images to make other burns for his sister. Well, they only take about two hours apiece to master; I'll just clear out some disk space and re-run the process.

We had the family weekly meeting so the kids knew what to anticipate in the coming week, then I took Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's house. She and her sister left the floor littered with the cutouts from making paper snowflakes everywhere.

After dinner, we ran over to Baskin Robbins. Omaha was in desperate need of ice cream. Can't blame her, either; I could use the break myself.

[Writing] Aimee': Pyu Rika released a day early.

I decided that I couldn't wait and uploaded the new Aimee' stories up to my website a day early. The index engine will still not let you read the later ones until their dates arrive (February 14th and 28th, March 14th and 28th), but the first one is now publicly available.

I decided to do this because I read today that high school students believe that the First Amendment goes too far in the freedom it guarantees, and that half of all the students surveyed believe that people should get government permission before publishing anything, and 17% believe that people should not be allowed to express unpopular opinions for any reason.

It's been a nice country, and I've enjoyed the freedom to write in it. I hope you like the story, at least until the censors come for us all.

So that's what they mean by "special sauce."

Ladies and Gentlemen, it must be seen to be believed. Mcdonalds has a new banner ad campaign that can be seen over at ESPN, but if you want to see it in it's preserved state, Andrew Teman has a laid-out copy. The ad reads, "Double Cheeseburger? I'd fuck that." Well, no, it reads, "Double Cheeseburger? I'd hit it." Which, basically, means the same as my original statement.

I can't tell if this is a mistake, or a deliberate meme to infect us all by making us talk about it. Either way, though, it's in sad taste.