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Rundown. I think that single word sums up how I feel these days. If there isn't one already, there should be a sniglet for the feeling of disgust when one thinks of blogging all the shiznit that's happened over the past few days of not blogging. The short version is pretty simple. After Sam and I had our meeting, he presented me with a beautiful humidor. I love it! To celebrate our step toward the future, he and I headed off to smoke up Downing Street. EL met us there a little later and about a hundred and some change in martini bucks later, we called it a night. EL came downtown and met me for lunch at Bossa where we enjoyed the oddity of Cuban spice mixture. The parking attendant for the lot we parked in didn't speak a dime of English... a frustration for me. If I wanted to work in some foreign country, I would expect at least a modicum of proficiency in the native tongue. This guy might have well been mute. While we were enjoying lunch, he double parks a car behind us, thus blocking our exit. Well, let me re-phrase that... he allows someone to double park behind us. This doesn't seem like a significant detail to the story really... it didn't then either... that is until he tried to move said vehicle and discovered an extra pedal and a pointy thing in the center console. This “parking attendant”, who works at a lot where you are expected to leave your keys, had never driven a manual transmission before. I watched him try to put it in gear (after reading the little R off the pattern printed on the shifter) without depressing the clutch for a good 5 minutes before I offered to help. I moved the car. We left. Fucktard. EL and I had a quiet evening at home that would have been a night of relaxation if it weren't for me having to work on some non-relaxing things at the house. I finally got to bed around midnight. Today has been quiet. I had been giving Redhat 9 the benefit of the doubt this week on a trial run, but in the end it proved just a disappointing as I expected and I installed Mandrake 9.1 this morning. It was an instant faith restorer. I'm officially converted... of course, it didn't take much since everything after RH7.2 has pretty much been crap. EL met the home inspectors this morning and spent most of the day shadowing the termite guy and the inspection guy... she did a great job at getting all the pertinent information we needed over the three and a half hour inspection. She joined me at Cabo for lunch. It was nice to sit outside, but the waiter fucked up my order and I didn't eat really. I've kinda been like a zombie this afternoon. I'm going through the motions, but I can't really concentrate. Greg flies in tonight and I'm super excited about that... it will be so good to see him again. Well, I don't know what to say about my lack of posting other than sorry... I've just been trying to make it to the weekend. I need to recharge in a bad, bad way.