clocks spinning out of control

now playing: dee carstensen, "this time around"

this day has flown by - as days have a tendency to do when you're a zombie. i've kinda stumbled through this morning and was a little shocked to find that it had mutated into an afternoon at some point. i got out of bed a little earlier than normal this morning to go pick the kids up at their moms' house and drive them up to the bus stop...this is a concept that i've never fully made peace with. the entire time i was growing up, i never had to go anywhere to catch the bus. the bus stopped in front of my house and picked me up and took me to school, and then stopped in front of my house at the end of the day and dropped me off. there was no walking to the bus stop and waiting out in the elements for the bus to come.

i think that's bullshit. still do, always will. call me cantankerous, i don't care.

i'm kinda on autopilot here, have been gliding through my tasks...knowing full well that i've got a bunch of stuff on my plate that has a ticking sound...i'm slogging through a windows/office setup on a machine i just repaired that'll be picked up tomorrow. it's going smoothly enough, but it just occured to me how many activation codes i have committed to memory - on this machine, i haven't had to look up a one yet. windows xp - got it. office xp - got it. easy cd creator? done deal. winzip? sure. (ok, so winzip is free, but you have to have the code to get rid of the nag screen that comes up every time you open it....)

people marvel at this. i just think it's...well, a little odd. disturbing, even.

there's a ton of shit that i need to deal with, though - in terms of needing to get loose ends sewn up and taking care of some projects and getting some of the sites finished that are halfway done or in various states of not-finished-yet-ness, including my own...i'm prepping to submit my name for opening the poco show in sellersville, and don't even have a site to reference when i do. i need to fix that. i'm going to finish a couple of paid projects first, though - so i can relax a little bit. it's getting to the point that i have so much stuff on my plate that i sometimes forget just what i have on my list...but i've actually made quite a bit of progress just today, so i shouldn't complain too much...after all, it could be the other way 'round.