Ever have...

...one of those "wait, what the hell?" moments?

State election officials introduced a new order for the English alphabet Monday, which will determine the order that the names of California's gubernatorial recall election candidates will appear on the ballot.

Anyway.

A memo to all drivers: merging is a privilege, not a right. You must ask for it each and every time by way of using your God damned turn signals. This applies to changing lanes as well. Also, exit lanes are not good places to get ahead of the pack in traffic jams, as you will just piss other people off by blocking the exit while you wait for someone up ahead to let you in. Further, the shoulder is also not a good place to get ahead of the pack, as it is illegal and also will piss people off on general principle. (For what it's worth, I've seen a police officer parked on the shoulder during a traffic jam, walking back along the row of cars who tried to use the shoulder to jump ahead and writing tickets for driving on the shoulder in non-emergency conditions.)

No more headache today. Possibly due to Aleve (which I took last night at about 7 PM, so it should be wearing off soon), possibly due to headaches not actually being all that severe in the first place. On the other hand, I slept through my alarm today. >_<

I've been inspired to try a new technique for drawing, weirdly by a project my sister did in her seventh-grade art class (nearly ten years ago). We'll see how it goes.

Okay...

I've been hit with MSBlast twice in the last hour. larryalton has more information on this new Windows worm here. (Thanks to melpomenes_mask for the tip.)

A note

Today's Piece Of Trivia That Most People Get Wrong:

The "Twinkie Defense", as used by Dan White's attorney in his 1978 murder trial, did not claim that eating Twinkies and other junk food had made White depressed and impaired his judgment. It did claim that White's eating Twinkies and other junk food was evidence of his depression (as a former athlete, White typically fed on healthier fare).

Although the term "Twinkie Defense" has come to mean "the argument that an external force impaired the subject's judgment", that usage is based on erroneous reporting.

Welcome to the future.

Chris and Cam's
SHUT THE F*CK UP AND
DRIVE THE GOD D*MNED CAR
Driving School
(Est. 2003)

Special thanks to cmccurry and curiousangel. :)

Weird day.

cmerun12, you will be glad to know that my appointment went far, far better than I anticipated. I've been brought up to 15mg a day - one and a half times what I've been taking.

My parents had their driveway paved today. It's very disorienting. (Yes, paved, not repaved. For the last 18 years they've lived in a house with a gravel driveway, and while it gave the house character the constant ruts were becoming too much for the suspensions of the cars that had to drive on it.) Especially disorienting on a dark night when one is used to being able to use the light-colored gravel to find one's way down the driveway...

49 days until Project X.