As it turns out, you don't need some fancy USB 2 port to use your fancy USB 2 device. A USB 1 port can be fiendishly co-opted for the purpose. I'm sure other computer-savvy folk would have known this, but for me when I found this out I felt like I had harnessed the power of the gods. Still sorta do.

Last night I had yet another dream where my unconscious mind completely betrayed my waking mind. Thank you unconscious mind. I can keep my shit together a solid 74% of the time when I'm awake but when I'm asleep, you just go ahead and piss all over the birthday cake. I sincerely hope you die. I may poison you shortly with neurotoxic chemicals. Then who's the dean? Yes sir. So that dream put me in a fairly standard gloomy mood all day, which was increased by the fact that I haven't been hungry in over 48 hours and now I'm worried. In the past two days I've eaten a burrito, an ice cream cone, an apple, and a muffin. In two days. And let's just say that the janitorial department ain't exactly swingin' for the fences these days either. Maybe my subconscious mind and my too-conscious body are in some horrific collusion with one another to bring about the downfall of Matthew C. Brown. It would figure that they'd get up to nonsuch.

At work I actually e-learned. This was ironic because I am of course an e-learning developer but I rarely actually e-learn. I also work for a cellular company yet hate cell phones. I enjoy the many puzzles and contradictions of my life. But I have to say that this at-work apathy is becoming a nuissance. It's been six months; I am itchy. But oh well. After work I went to see my friend Helen. You can see a picture of her on the right. She is my friend from high school from whom I was separated for a decade and then recently re-united. In the picture she is trying to juggle the multiple responsibilities of talking on her cell phone, sipping her coffee, and eating her ice cream cone. After I took the picture we sat on the beach and talked about life, love, and plague rats. Then she went to Spain.

I came home straight away because I had a bunch of stuff to do tonight that was piling up, like complaining about the duty on the Manfrotto stand I bought on Ebay, and signing my new lease, and dumping all the pictures off of my digital camera. At one point during this process I succumbed to temptation and took many pictures of my wang. Obviously, I will not post them here today, but they are pretty decent cock shots if I do say so myself. And that is the whole story.