Well, this 4th of July was very uneventful for me. I've been working 12-14 hour days since last Monday. I need another vacation already. I did decide to catch a webcast of the Washington DC fireworks. I noticed some new ones like a smiley face and a peace sign. But it can't beat all the times in high school when the gang and I would go out to the lake and shoot off bottle rockets. We have this one guy, let's call him "Jeff" that for some reason could never figure out that we were pointing towards the lake and not away from it. I remember a tree catching on fire, a field catching on fire and a car being in the crosshairs. The funniest one had to be when the field caught on fire. It was actually behind a barbed wire fence. Now Jeff and I were rather lumbering and we argued who was going to go over the barbed wire fence and put it out, because I lit it and he shot it. While we're arguing of course the fire is getting bigger. Finally our friend "Cory" decides we were never going to do it and just let the field go up in blazes so he runs and jumps and stomps on the fire while we just sit there. Of course we do get a "harrumph" as he walks back to car, mad that we were going to let it burn. We, of course, knew he was going to do it anyway if we argued long enough.... Who says you can't be smart about being lazy? Tom Sawyer's the man.

Thought of the day
Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

---Office Space