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Yesterday was a series of ups and downs that didn't amount to much. I was intermittently busy through the morning with fires at work that needed to be put out, but by the afternoon things had slowed to a crawl. Somewhere in the day, a rumor was passed around that there would be 1000 layoffs corporate-wide this Friday. That's enough to put anyone in a good mood, so there was this weird, eerie quiet around the office all afternoon. EL was re-purple-izing her hair when I got off, so I stopped at Blanco's with Joe, Dirk, and Vance. Someone had left a bunch of pool balls on one of the table's, so I took a picture. Why not? Anyhoo, there was a big private party going on in one half of the joint and they had hired a professional photographer. As it turns out, the guy had gone to high school with Dirk and that was enough to get he and I talking about photography. The guy, no offense, was an idiot. Well, on the surface anyway. I tried for several minutes of patiently listening to him talk to hear anything that would give me the impression he knew anything about photography that would substantiate the credentials of a professional. Nothing. He was a really nice guy... just didn't seem to technical or passionate about what he did for a living. I guess that's going around these days. One thing of note: that bitch had a Nikon 1Dx and it was all kinds of sweet. It's not quite my dream camera, buy pretty damn close. As soon as EL finished her stuff at home, she met me and we went to dinner at The Red Onion on Kirby. They have that cool pineapple salsa stuff. I didn't really like the food at dinner, but I loved the fact that we were having it together. I work way to much. I wish there was a way I could work less without my pay suffering substantially. The riddle of life these days... how do I not work and still get paid? Heh. Anyhoo, I slept like ass last night. I had a few really bad dreams... weird stuff. The last of which was disturbed by the alarm clock going off. I was so unsettled that decided to go ahead and get my tired ass out of bed... and, consequently, so begins another day in paradise.