Ahhhh.

What a lovely period of time I've been having. I'm not going to spoil it by waiting for the proverbial hammer to fall. I've got my loverly new XM radio (Thanks Gary!) that I'm having a blast with, I made it to the top 2 in the office basketball pool thing and if Illinois wins tonight I get first place and a spot of cash. How nice :) The majority of other employees aren't too chuffed with me especially since I know jack about basketball and picked my bracket based on a very scientific method of 'who won more games between the two teams playing?' and 'Ooo I've been to Illinois, I'll pick them!'

I've heard a lot of grumbling in my direction today, hehe.

What else... well I'm still loving the RSS thingie and have sucked a couple other people into it. I designed a website for Matt the Cat that he seems to like very much. Learned how to do rollover images within an image while I was at it as well so, yay me. And I'm dead excited to learn I've only got 5 more car payments to go before it's mine all mine. Woot!

And Ooo it's 24 night, always a plus.

That's about the extent of my excitement around here. Things have just been going nicely lately and I'm digging it the most. Seems odd to say that while the world is enduring the loss of Pope JP 2. I understand the grief and the ceremony and solemnity of it all is really interesting to watch. My small eulogy for the man is pretty mundane as I'm not Catholic and he wasn't really an inluence on me, but it goes like this: I send my condolences out to Catholics who are mourning him. He stood by his principles and I respect him for that even though I didn't agree with some of them. But I've never been vehemently opposed to him as some I've seen, but then as I said I'm not Catholic and therefore not under his large sphere of influence. I read a blog today that was , well it was pretty outspoken to put it mildly and I also can respect that some people hated the Pope. But it's obvious he was well-loved probably moreso than he was hated, Sinead O'Connor aside, and did a lot of good in this world. A TCZ-er very nicely and simply said, Requiescat in pace, Karol Wojtyla. Ditto from me.

And there you have it, my bit about the Pope.

And now I'll sign off with a few hilarious quotes from another person who passed away this week, Mitch Hedberg:

"I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish-kabobs."

"I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. "

"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. "