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You ever get that feeling in traffic like you're a lemming headed for the cliff? I left for work a little later this morning... took my time... stopped for coffee. Not counting travel time or the time getting dressed, I worked over twelve hours yesterday... stepped into the office at 5:30 aye emm and rolled out just after 6:00. I remember being a kid and working during the summer at a metalworking shop for a general contractor. We were commissioned to demolition a piping structure on the outskirts of Sonora, TX (basically, the desert) and worked seven twelves for the weeks we were there (ie. 7 days a week, 12 hours a day)... manual labor from dark to dark. Granted, working as a respected IT professional in an air conditioned office with a view is not the same 12 hours, but it's still entirely to long to be at work when you are working for someone else. I downloaded the official Mandrake 10.0 i586 ISO's last night. I plan on replacing my test partition of Fedora with the new Mandrake. I really liked the Mandrake 9 series and if this is just an improvement on that, it should be great. Fedora was pretty cool, but the interoperability just wasn't there yet. In Mandrake, I can easily access my NTFS partitions formatted with XP Pro and manipulate files. Red Hat tends to stay way back from touching NTFS. It is strictly "use at your own risk" kernel mods with those guys. I'm looking for a new way to display photos in an online gallery. The Movable Type based content engine that runs behindthelens.org is ok, but I don't know enough about scripting the templates to make it do what I want... further, I don't have the time to learn. I could use something prepackaged like Gallery, Exhibit Engine, Coppermine, or the likes, but I want it to be really simple and easy to navigate by queriable criteria. I really don't have a lot of time these days to fiddle with customization. There should be more hours in the day. Who is going to start that petition? Where do I sign? T-Minus one hour until the meeting-fest of the day starts. What would corporate America be without meetings? Would people just wander aimlessly in the halls? Could the rest of us just leave after our work was done? Today, it's one of those meetings-all-morning-through-lunch days... you know, where you eat lunch and talk about work ala working through lunch because there apparently isn't enough time to get it all out outside of lunch hours. Ugg. Calgon take me away. At least this weekend is a three day. I'm diggin' it. Perhaps I can get something productive done with that extra day. I don't want to get my hopes up. Heh. Cheers.