... my dog doesn't understand sarcasm.

My week-long vacation gave me a chance to get caught up on all the unprocessed picture-a-day “digital negatives” I had sitting around.  My PAD gallery is now mostly up to date.

I'm back now from my family spring break trip, a trip where eight adults and six children get together somewhere warm and eat. 

At what point did my vacations become an exercise in killing time between meals?

Is it just me or is everyone else tired of fake news stories on 4/1?  Common now people.  It's been done.

Okay, it's official, I have too much to do at work too.

I've made a concerted effort to cut down on the number of projects at home, but it seems that there is a cosmic force at work with the sole desire to see me have a mental breakdown. 

So, how do I deal? 

Step one, find some clever quotes:

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978)

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Step two, remember I'm going to Florida soon to sit on the beach and do nothing at all.

Bah!  Whining is for four-year-olds. :p

Hey, cool, I could time share a Learjet from FlexJet for $4,600 a month!  That's pretty spendy, but much lower than I'd expect, so I decided to take a closer look at the ad in USA Today (America's “I wouldn't read it if it wasn't for the Hotel giving it to me” newspaper).

INTRODUCING A REVOLUTION IN FRACTIONAL JET OWNERSHIP.  For as little as $4,600 per month,*...

Okay, there's the “*”, I knew there'd be a catch.  What's the extra damage?  There's a monthly management fee of $6,485 and an hourly rate of $1,760.  I love it that their monthly fee has additional monthly fees.

You know guys, you could get many more customers if you just said:

INTRODUCING FREE FRACTIONAL JET OWNERSHIP.  For nothing a month*...

I knew for sure I was in Redmond this morning when the local TV station's weather forecast was "mild damp".  I suppose if you're a weather forecaster up here you need to be able to say more than "hey, it's going to rain."

On a related note, there really might not be all that many Eskimo words for snow.

I finally got off by lazy butt and processed all my waiting picture a day pictures adding almost a month's worth of pictures to the gallery (including a picture of a very thrilled commuter, hi Rob).

I still need to add descriptions... baby steps.