… but it’s a week until my birthday, so I should probably wait to open them… … but they are Amazon.com packages, and if there was ever time to read a couple of novels, the next two and half days would probably be it. Hmm. Grr. In other news, I’m thinking about some of the questions raised in the comments of my previous fatigued post. Why am I not posting my thought processes? I don’t quite know. Some of my frustrations and problems are recurring, painful things I’m hoping to stomp into silence once more before they see the full light of day. Others are just things I would have…

I mentioned in my review of The Once and Future King that there were some amazing gems throughout the book that made it able to be reread and reinterpreted ad infinitum, in my eyes. This is one in particular that’s been lodged in my brain since I read the book; it comes to the forefront of my mind at the oddest of times. (It’s a long one, so pull up a chair.) There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws…

Some of these are up to a week old, so I don’t remember where they all came from. I just need to clean out some of the thirty [plus] tabs open in Firefox that I wanted to save from Bloglines, so they’re getting dumped here. Some come from George’s del.icio.us/allaboutgeorge, some from OSNews, some from Linux Journal, some from Google News, etc. In other words, they all derived from this here list of syndicated sites. Secure Programmer: Prevent race conditions. Well, I thought it was interesting. Call it a geek factor. Stem Cells Secrete Healing Chemicals. Again with the geek factor. Sue me. Nanoparticles Enable Speedy E. coli Detection. What…

Funny, that’s a little simplified if my Gender Issues reading was any kind of accurate… “The menopausal male”. Completely unrelated to the above, I am finding myself very close to a shutdown point. I do not want to be where I am doing what I’m doing. I have absolutely no idea where I’d rather be, but I am feeling distinctly… unhappy, borderline miserable, and that’s an odd feeling for me. Except for, you know, this school year. But today’s only Monday. My aunt, the wife of my uncle who died six weeks ago today of cancer, was found dead yesterday. I have two tests tomorrow. I have a milestone due…