*Poof* -- and svenden suddenly reappeared!

Here's the thing, I sit in front of a computer most of the day at work, so I have little desire to do so at home. Ergo (woo hoo! there's bonus points for using that word), if I am insanely busy at work, my blog gets neglected.

Wherefore (hm, not sure about that one), we are brought to this moment in time when I find myself apologizing to my 5.23 readers for leaving them hanging for the past couple weeks. All I can say is, get used to it. I'm loaded with several projects at work that are all due at about the same time, so things are a little corybantic (show some love to the thesaurus!) around here.

But I have a break in all the corybanticism (shwing!), so prepare for a mind dump...

First off, check this out! That's the 10 day forecast for my zip code, and there isn't a single temperature above 89 degress!! I'd run naked through the street celebrating, but its been so damn hot this summer that streaking has become common practice for most of the population.

Hopefully this forecast won't change at all, because I'm supposed to go to Valleyfair on the 23rd. 80 degrees and sunny for a day of rollercoaster mayhem? Works for me!

Lots of traveling coming up. Going to spend Labor Day weekend in Ontario on the boat. Headed up to Calgary in October (which, unfortunately, will be too late to see The Shatner Show). Then to Seattle for Thanksgiving. Back home to Detroit for Christmas. And then hopefully a week of skiing in Colorado sometime in January/February.

Oh, and have I mentioned that I'm going to Vancouver in 2010 for the Winter Olympics? Yep, I just made it through the qualifying rounds for speed skating. I crushed Apolo Anton Ohno's time. He's bummed that he won't be competing this go 'round, but he wished me the best of luck. Not that I'll need it.

Things have settled down here after the bridge collapse heard round the world. I'm quite confident that we'll have a new bridge this time next year. The Republicans are coming to the Twin Cities for their 2008 "How To Fuck Up The Country Some More" Convention. So of course, the rebuild will be rushed and not thought about. I guess they're going to unveil the plans this week for the new bridge. I'm quite confident they took plenty of time and energy to get it right this time...

*Poof!*