Two great things

You’d never think that cellos playing metal could work well, but they do. One of the discoveries this past week was a band called Apocalyptica. And as luck would have it, I found four of their albums online. And they will be joining my iTunes library quite soon. Not right now; I’m burning them to CD after converting them from .ogg files. Silly Linux people, coming up with their own audio format. Hah. Thank god for Quicktime Pro, and people who write plugins.

Anyway, this stuff is probably some of the best driving music I’ve ever heard. I’ll put it to the test on the iPod when I drive to work tomorrow. I’m sure I’ll see how it sounds through the Bose first. Hehe... my Bose. He said I could keep whatever I wanted, dammit.

There was a lot of anger in my last entry. It was good to get that stuff out. I did get a reply to the e-mail I wrote.

I’m sorry about how that came out.

Yet another case of someone not thinking. I actually felt sort of bad. Then I was gently reminded that “he can suck down a huge bag of beetle shit” and I didn’t feel bad any more. Then there was some strange geographical discussion that won’t really be resolved until Thursday or something. Potatoes and moonshine. Go figure.

Tomorrow is my Friday. Tough to believe, but it is very welcome. Been a busy week. I’m still pretty amused that one of my co-workers offered me money to bring him food; he was impressed with my dinner Monday night and wanted to know if I’d bring extra for him. I guess he wants home cooking. I suggested he find a female or something, since I never packed lunches for my husband when I was married. He’s an odd one. I think his biggest problem is that he’s on the conservative side and is a bit of a loser when it comes to women. Nice enough guy; kind of weirded me out at first, but he’s harmless and I find him amusing. He’s so easy to tease, poor guy. There’s something endearing about him … I’m not sure what it is. He’s kinda fun to flirt with, he’s a decent writer and he works hard. The guys on the desk ride him pretty hard, but he’s basically a nice guy. I feel bad for him sometimes, and I’ve made an effort to be nice to him.

Hey, when you’re single, you tend to look at people differently, OK? It’s been forever since I’ve looked at men in a way where I considered if they’d make good friends or could be more than friends. With the co-worker, I’m open to being friends. A work relationship thing just isn’t happening — especially not at a place that small, even if I wanted it to. Just too much weirdness. Besides, I’ve got a full enough plate for now. Not that anything has been scheduled locally (yet), but I’m far too intrigued by S to let that go. Then there’s that other deal on the horizon. That should be a lot of fun, especially since it looks like the travel plans will come together. Heh.

So much for getting to bed by 3. I’ve slept well the past few nights, so I’m not too worried.