but I'm acutally updating my webpage!

Somehow the momentum of not posting anything has been hard to overcome. I feel like there is pressure to say something genius now that I've been sitting so long thinking by myself.

Jumped on the bandwagon and downloaded Mozilla Firefox about a week ago. And here I am to extoll the virtues of this up and coming browser.

I used Moz for a while before it's incarnation as Firefox, but frankly there were some very minor problems that kept me from making The Switch. For whatever reason, which I'm positive can be attributed to some sort of voodoo, several problems became apparent on my machine when I selected Moz as my default browser. Some programs didn't want to play with the new kid in the sandbox, so refused to play at all, and others just kicked sand in Moz's direction.

Firefox is the kid who moved from out-of-state in third grade and is everyone's new best friend. The other programs trade him their cookies for his celery sticks at lunch. He gets picked first for kickball.

Firefox (outside of the playground) is awesome. It has a plethora of extensions and is highly customizable. Some of the extensions are silly, like the Radial Context menu extension I installed, which gives you your right-click menu in a circular layout that is rather confusing. (I uninstalled that one after using it for one day.)

In other news, I am three weeks into my New Job. I am still working at the same "company" which shall remain nameless lest a search engine pick up certain keywords and direct people this way, but I moved over to the IT department. So far I am liking it a whole lot better than I had anticipated, as I had a number of reservations about moving. The work is a lot more varied and more independent, making it (thus far) less of a grind.

And in still more news, Kris and I went to see They Might Be Giants perform in Atlanta over last weekend. The show was pretty decent - we've been to several concerts before and while the music doesn't change much, the audiences definitely vary widely by region, and this one was the most civilized I've experienced. The opening Guy was interesting; he was this guy with long blond hair that sang and played a large white accordion. The first number he did started with almost operatic music, which then evolved (or devolved, depending on your perspective) into a rock tune. The music wasn't fantastic, largely due to the fact that it so loud that it was almost impossible to understand the lyrics. Between songs, he would sort of heckle the crowd and tell stories, so overall his act (the singing and the storytelling/between song stuff) was entertaining.

TMBG was good too. If you've seen them, there isn't much to tell, except that they did not play Instanbul at this show.

This was the first time we'd been back up to Atlanta since we drove through on our relocation voyage in June of 2003. The drive is still the same boring 5-hour ride, which I can authoritatively declare the Least Scenic Drive in America. Believe me people, I've driven (or been driven) across a great deal of the country, and the stretch of GA I-16 between Savannah and Atlanta is the worst ever. Ever.

No seriously, you can't even comprehend until you've done it once, twice or three times. There are trees, pine trees of some sort, all the same size and distance from the road for hundreds of miles. There is a median that divides the highway down the middle that hardly changes in width and varies little in topography. The road itself is of average quality, not full of potholes but not freshly resurfaced either, and pretty darn straight. If the road crews had put a couple of hairpin turns in there somewhere, that would have really livened things up.

The scenery improves as you approach Atlanta only because you begin to see the Kudzu that has swallowed the aforementioned boring pines WHOLE in a matter of hours. The result is these large protusions that look like some sort of alien foliage invaders trying hard but not successfully hiding along the road, like refugee shrubbery giraffes and elephants in a topiary garden.

But at any rate, we made it back, mostly alive. And the best part was that even though we were gone for the better part of two days, fortune smiled upon us and sent us a hurricane, so that we could stay home from work and school on Monday.

And the weather was bad, but not so bad that we couldn't get together with Courtney, Casey, and Caboose, watch Star Wars.