THE DAILY DIVERSION

UMM.... WHAT?

I wasn't going to make a post today, but looking at most of my friends blogs, it appears that they are being lazy too, so I'll step up to the plate. I'm doing it also because I probably won't have an entry this weekend. I usually don't. I have other things going on then, and I like to do this in lieu of working.

I can't remember any dreams from last night. I didn't wake up and have anything in my head to write down, so no discussion of what's going on in there today. I also didn't wake up with a song rattling around. That's a good thing, since I forgot my Ipod today. I'm too lazy to walk the whole block back to my apartment to get it. I'll probably just have Adrianne bring it to me when we go to lunch. That's much easier.

Well, part of what I said in that last paragraph was true. I didn't wake up with a song in my head, but I quickly had one once I looked at what time it was when I finally got up (see below). My alarm clock originally went off at 7:20, but I hit snooze. Then, in a daze, I tried to reset it for 7:45. **Note to self -- Do not attempt to reset your alarm clock when you're mostly asleep. As it will always end up not working!**

Okay, I just rechecked it (my phone is my alarm clock), and I did set it for 7:45. I guess I just forgot to turn it on. Anyway, I fell back asleep for a little bit when I started thinking "Man, It's been a long time since my alarm went off. I wonder what time it is?"

I reach over, grab my phone, and find out that it's 7:55. Yikes!! I guess I'd better get out of bed and get to hustlin'. Ya'll know it's hard out here for a pimp, right? Just checking! Anyway, Adrianne rolls over and says "What time is it?" I reply "Well, I'm already late." She asks again "Well, what time is it?" I tell her that it's 7:55 and I gotta get movin'. She replies in her sad voice "Well, I guess you're not going to get off work early today, are you?" I just tell her "We'll see."

Yesterday afternoon my boss come by and tells me "Tomorrow is a breather day. So we can catch our breath." I kind of think to myself "What the hell does that mean?" I've worked for him for right at two years now and he's never said that before. Does it mean that we can come in at 10 am, fool around for a couple of hours, go to lunch, come back and fool around for another hour, and then go home before 3 pm? That's what I'm hoping anyway.

Anyway, I get a shower and am ready to go in record time. I actually make it to the office by 8:20. The first thing one of our assistants says to me is "Wow, you're early?" I say "What? I'm running late again?" She just looks at me and smiles, then says "Well, you beat the boss in."

"Dammit!!" I think to myself "I could've stayed in bed longer!" Our assistant sees the look on my face and says "Well, it's too late now. You're already here. You can't go back." Unfortunately she's right. Man that sucks! I could've stayed in bed for a little while longer. Well, like 3 minutes anyway! My boss rolled in about that much time after I did. Ha!! He'll never know when I got here!

So, now I'm at work and bored. I figured out what "Breather Day" is. We don't really have to do any work. My boss sent out an email yesterday afternoon that we met our goals for the year (our year end is March 31), and made his boss very happy. That doesn't mean that we're going to get any big raises or anything, but a pat on the back is better than a foot to the ass, I suppose. We haven't met our goals in either of the past two years, so this was a first. However, it's not really our fault that the goals haven't been met. Truthfully, the goals are too large for a staff the size of ours. The only way we accomplished them this year is because we implemented faster techniques and cut a few corners (not bad though). We actually met the high end of our goals, which is even better.

Sadly enough, I actually have work to do. I jumped off of the project I was working on fix a problem someone else was having, that directly attributed to our overall goal. I worked on it Monday through yesterday morning. When we got the okay on it, I started working on my project again. I actually knocked out the most difficult part of it yesterday, but still need to do some significant work on it. I know Beed would be interested. It's a set up Excel spreadsheets that all interlink and come to a final answer. I still need to work on some Macros and what nots and then finalize the layout. Right now it's just a jumble of events that work.

Anyway, I probably won't work on it today, much. I plan on just cruising around on the internet and seeing if I can find some interesting things to read.

Quick break from my rambling...

Song of the Day: "Dark that Follows" by Evans Blue from The Melody and Energetic Nature of Volume

The only lyrics I've got this morning are:

Yeah, that's me beating myself up over sleeping too late. That's it. Unfortunately I cannot listen to the song to get it out of my head, well, at least until this afternoon.

Instead of listening to the loud mouth next to me on his speakerphone, I decided to pull up Pandora and listen to some tracks on there. It's actually a pretty cool website, where you can set up playlists of things you like to listen to and they offer some alternatives. If you enjoy "Evans Blue" then set them up, and they'll put some other artists on there that are similar. Right now I've got an absolute horrible song playing. It's like a bad mixture of Poison and White Lion. The name of the band is Hammerfall and the song is called "The Templar Flame". Oh god!! It's horrible. They're trying to bring the screechy guitar rift. Ugh!! I can't skip this song, because I've already skipped too many today, so I have to listen to it. However, I did set it up to never play that group again. Whew!! It's over!

Here's a little news from the Memphis front. This comes from a friend of Adrianne's. Thanks Camille!

Three 6 Mafia Recording With Paris Hilton
Mar 29, 4:47 PM EST

Oscar-winning rappers Three 6 Mafia say they are producing and recording tracks with Paris Hilton.

"We ran into her at a William Morris Agency party and she said she liked our song `Stay Fly' and asked could we work with her," said Jordan "Juicy J" Houston, a member of the Memphis hip-hop group.

Houston said the group was in a Los Angeles recording studio Tuesday with the hotel heiress and reality TV star.

"We let her listen to a dance track and she really liked it and plans to record it tonight," Houston told The Commercial Appeal newspaper by phone Tuesday.

He said that since the group won the Oscar for best original song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from the film "Hustle & Flow" they have been swamped with all sort of requests.

Wow! Another Holiday to Celebrate here in Memphis! I wonder if we get that day off from work? I sure hope so, since it's a Saturday this year!

Never mind homelessness, panhandlers, city budgets, school closings, or our poor government. We need Three 6 Mafia Day!!! Man, I hate governments.

I'm wondering what I'll have to do to get a key to the city and a special day here. I'm thinking about actually showing up to work on time on consecutive days. Maybe that will be enough?