Thoughts from this morning's bike ride: "Is this the best you can do, Gaia? All that hooplah about a big storm, and this is what we see up here? Come on, you can do better than this.. bring it on ... *ouch* *ouch* Okay, nevermind, I'll be quiet now *cringe* (it did actually happen to pick up a lot while I was riding).

On the upside, I'm not sick, it's just allergies. On the downside, the allergies are much worse today than they were yesterday, and I seriously considered taking a sick day for the first time since my wisdom teeth were removed. I feel really lousy -- my throat decided to wake me up around 04, and I couldn't get back to sleep. My sinuses are draining like mad, and although I'm not sneezing at all, it's extremely uncomfortable. Bleh. I was meaning to put some extra time in from home to help out a coworker of mine that's really cool, whipping up some perl magic, but the allergies really kicked in right as I was leaving work (around 19: -- another late day), and as soon as I made it home and sat down, I took some nyquil and that was the end of my day.

Oh, IBM has an innovative laptop design you might want to check out. At work, we got a batch of new, cool little laptops that I'm putting Linux on. They're IBM X31 thinkpads, they weigh about 3 pounds, and they're incredibly small. They come with USB floppies and a USB CD-ROM, so, like my current laptop, they lack an integreated floppy. Seems to be a growing trend -- floppy drives take a lot of space on a laptop, and most of it isn't utilized. People don't use floppies to transfer data anymore...

Anyhow, back to work -- maybe I can whip up the script this morning before she needs it.