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Hazardous Drivers

I used to get really upset when I saw drivers turning on their hazard lights while driving in (not necessarily) heavy rain. Today I realized it is a way for those drivers to show their incompetence! I’ve learned to stay clear of them. Unfortunately, they aren’t worried enough to actually move out of the leftmost lanes.

I see your Flock of Seagulls and raise you Lionel Ritchie

As some of you know, most days I commute a little over an hour out to my programming job out in Tampa. I listen to XM radio: sometimes CNN; most often it’s dance music. I’m also usually chatting on google talk with emily and Tracy with my blackberry. Yeah, I know, I know.

emily and I have been “singing” to one another:

me: Set me free..cos you don’t realize what you mean to me
Open up your eyes.. You’re losin me. Cos you don’t understand I feel for you
emily: you spin me right round baby baby right round like a record baby right round round round. i want your loooooooooooooove
me: I see your flock of seagulls and raise you lionel ritchie
emily: id ask you to marry me if you had known that was duran duran

Updated: I guess it would be a failed marriage. That wasn’t Duran Duran at all… it was Dead or Alive.

Take One for the Team

Some time ago when I was living in a house I had the idea of putting my and my housemate’s names on the mailbox, then adding a second mailbox (lined with a trash bag) and labelling that “Current Resident.” I always wondered if my postal carrier would get the joke–or better, actually separate our junk mail for us. I never actually followed through
Now that I live in a condominium that’s not really practical as my mailbox is in a facility with lots of other mailboxes and maybe my neighbors like junk mail. I also have a Post Office Box and there’s nothing I can do about that one.

So I started thinking… always a dangerous thing for me.

What if I legally changed my name to “Current Resident”? And then…submitted a change-of-address form to the Post Office! Would I then begin to collect everyone’s junk mail? Perhaps nationwide? That would be awesome! I could rent space next to a recycling company and just have it all delivered there directly. I’ll have to ask my Postmaster about this.