...we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids.

everybody save me has probably already seen this site years ago, i spent about 20 minutes clicking and listening. many of them are truly fascinating.

days off are approaching, it's my last night after a bunch of early mornings at work. yesterday was a stretch for me, awake at 2:45am, four hours of work, then a spring day, then dinner out and a bunch of laughs, and then home by 10pm. i slept deliciously, woke to a long lay-in with the cats, and then it was all coffee and stuff from the bakery, a chat with zandra who was walking past, some sports car time with martin, and now i'm all steely dan on the hi-fi and blogging to the world.

my biannual performance review is late this afternoon. it's the tricky kind, before me here at home i have an exact copy of the forms my employer has already filled out to bring to the meeting. i'm supposed to fill them out too - evaluate myself - and then bring my version along. oh, it's tricky all right, i mean, how strongly should i bring out my imperfections? how loudly dare i blow my own horn?

-----mahssive snip!-----

yeah, i just snipped almost 3000 words on lead management, choice theory and the quality workplace. eventually, i'll smear some gel into it, comb it, dye the roots and present it as a finished product. maybe get it some new shoes. i'm a little miffled about the whole thing as i've about six things i currently want to blog about and i spent most of the afternoon on the one thing that on completion i thought better of. as for those five other things, well, i've got a performance review to get to shortly here, they'll have to wait.

i had a pretty big setback at the end of last week, i'm not going to get explicit with it as of yet, but its effect is going to be apparent on the blog for the next little while. let's just say i lost part of myself, but it will be replaced in what i hope is not too long. cryptoblogging! guilty as charged; i'm just not prepared to talk about it beyond the vaguest hint.

have a great big happy monday evening, maybe get a q-tip and clean between the keys on your cell phone or throw a big ol' blanket over your kitchen table, crawl under and pretend you're camping.