Wow. I just got my NJ license converted into a MA license in less than 30 minutes. Walk in, get into the queue (and the paper with my number on it also tells me an estimated wait time). Wait 18 minutes (exactly the amount of time printed on the paper), go up front, give them my NJ license, show them my phone bill, take a quick vision test, get my picture taken, sign on the dotted line, and voila! I now have a Temporary Massachusetts Drivers License (with the permanent one coming in the mail), and I am also registered to vote in this area now.

Every DMV should take a lesson from this one, the place was busy, but they were handling it well.

_there is a party _ _everyone is there _ _everyone will leave _ at exactly the same time

_when this party’s over _ _it will start again _ _will not be any different _ will be exactly the same

They are 93% Confident I am a Guy

I saw a bumper sticker which read “Press Women Make Headlines” this morning, and all I could think of was a picture of women being fed into a wooden barrel wine press, clawing to get out, on the front page of the New York Times.

Good morning. =)

I have been feeling lousy for days now, and this morning I had a creeping alarm clock. After the 4th reset, I decided to call in sick to work. I don’t actually have any sick days yet, which means that I guess I am using a personal day, which kinda blows, cuz I will use my last one on Friday for graduation, but I haven’t been getting any better by trying to will this cold out of existence, so perhaps a day of sleep, blankets, and NyQuil will help. :)

Well, how’s this for 6 degrees? It turns out that our Oracle consultant here at work also happens to train miniature seeing-eye horses in addition to his DBA career. A bunch of us were talking about this the last time soco visited Rochester, but I find it amazingly weird that I now work with the guy who was doing this completely bizarre work. :)

They have finished training their first horse, and are delivering him to his new owner soon. They are coming to Boston to throw a graduation party for the horse. My verbal skills have been rendered completely bewildered by this whole thing…. Wow…

It’s gonna make life easy for me

It’s gonna be easy to get things done

I will relax, along with my loved ones

Go search for “all your base” over at bluelight.com

A few people on my friends list have been using these new features, but I don’t think that many people know about them… There are a few LJ specific HTML tags that have been quietly introduced into the system:

• <lj user=“username”> is a shortcut that gives you a little userinfo icon that links to the specified user and a link to the users journal, like this: grahams
• <lj-cut> allows you to hide part of your journal behind a “Read More” link. The tag, and all text following it will be replaced by a “Read More” link… Clicking on the link will reveal the hidden text.
• lj://user/username is a quick URL that gets rewritten on the server to http://www.livejournal.com/users/username.
• And of course, there are the semi new-fangled poll tags.

Just figured some of y’all might like to know that… By the way, it does piss me off that these standalone tags don’t conform to the XML standard, but I can’t do anything about it.. :)

I thought I was doing better, but I feel pretty lousy…

Does anyone know the name of the song that was playing during the closing credits of The Sopranos last night? It sounded VERY familiar, but I couldn’t place it.

Update: HA! I knew I recognized it… It was Track #7 (‘blur’) off of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Vol. II… It took awhile for me to grind on it and finally remember what song it was….