This past week has has been amazingly insane, so I haven’t had the chance to read LJ at all. Things aren’t better in that regard, although I have been making progress on some of the items on my todo list…. but I needed a break, so I took some time off and read through seven days worth of LJ entries all at once. One of the things which really struck me after doing all of this reading is how much so many of the entries relate to feelings, concerns, in my own life.

Yesterday evening, I was paging through my TiVo’s “Now Playing List” when I found that my faithful Tivo (who was well aware of my preference for shoows like Buffy, Farscape, Hogan’s Heroes, Star Trek, etc.) had somehow decided that I might like Jenny Jones, which appears to be a daylight talk show. Oh, the shame — must find the thumbs down button on my remote fast! Anyway, the particular Jenny Jones show which the TiVo had recorded had the description, “Beautiful and intelligent women say they are unable to get dates.

Blargh…. I’m having trouble getting motivated today. I think part of the problem is that I’m behind a whole bunch of different fronts, and actually working on tasks (so I can get catch up) reminds me of how far behind I am, and so I want to avoid working on stuff. It’s stupid; really stupid, but it’s still hard to fight. What makes even dumber is that I’ve finished up all of my tasks that do have tight timelines, so what’s left is a bunch of things for which it’s not a disaster that I’ve this far behind — but it’s just that I feel unhappy with myself about where I am with stuff.

I spent the morning trying to get work done — or at least trying to; I wasn’t half as productive as I wanted to be. Sigh… Part of it is that that I don’t have my own space, so I’m just less efficient. Also, only having a dialup connection to the net doesn’t help. It’s also though that I’m getting easily distracted, for some reason. The Garmin Streetpilot III arrived today, via Federal Express.

So apparently there’s a new window virus going around, which instead of using addresses out of the luser’s MS Lookout address book for the from> and the to: fields, it uses a “well-known e-mail address” and sticks that in the sender field instead. And apparently, I happen to be one of the lucky ones, and my e-mail address has been hard-coded into some Windows e-mail virus. Oh happy, happy, joy, joy….

Five other IBM’ers and I flew into Canberra from Brisbane yesterday evening, at the end of the linux.conf.au conference. The last time I was in Canberra, it was two years ago, and they were working for LinuxCare, and I was working for VA Linux Systems. How things change, and yet how they stay the same…. it was so much fun spending time with them, as we traveled as a gaggle through the Brisbane and Sydney airports, geeking about Linux kernel internals, terrorizing Quantas Club attendants, etc.

I was recently getting up to date with a friend’s weblog, when I came across an entry which linked to an entry on the “best of craigslist.org” — One bedroom apartment plus boyfriend. Dria described the page as: One of the most strangely romantic things I’ve read in a long time…especially the part about the ham sandwiches. I could kinda see how it might be viewed as romantic; it certainly describes some of the attributes of a romantic relationship.