A Pound of Thoughts

I think I might start using that phrase whenever I feel like crap.  Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?  I wish I could take credit for it.  However, Yahoo! beat me to it:

For many Yahoo employees, the prospect that Microsoft might acquire the quirky Silicon Valley icon is about as appealing as a bad case of hives. One Yahoo engineer confessed his apprehension at trading in his Sunnyvale purple for Redmond’s muted hues this way: “The shareholders will be jumping for joy. But, for us, this is the frosting on a giant double-layer suck cake.”

Go here for the entire article.

This particular Monday has sucked so far.  I’ve been hair-on-the-top-of-my-head deep in computer models today.  The only time I looked up from the computer was to go to the bathroom and to heat up my one slice of peezzza for lunch.  Other than those (three or four) times, I’ve been “nose to the grindstone”.

I am really looking forward to tonight.  Prison Break comes back from a two-week break, and I have absolutely nothing to do when I get home (as far as I am aware).  Oh, if only 24 was showing on television!

Here’s some rather depressing news that came out over this past weekend:

• Mall killer still at large
• Dismembered remains are identified
• Missing hiker’s remains found
• Gulf Coast man runs over and kills brother with Mardi Gras float

Okay, that’s enough!  Can’t there ever be any good news??

Wait…I did find one good-news story:  Missing California skiers found alive!!