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"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet."
--Dave Barry

whee. i imagine i will have work to do again shortly, when liz comes in to tell me how horrible the new chapter for the manual is. until that time my job will consist of making the printed documentation match up with the electronic: an exercise in futility at best. i think the last time they were correlated was last spring, meaning that every other chapter is completely and utterly WRONG and pointing to some feature that no longer exists. of course, there are parts of the electronic documentation that point to nonexistent features as well, but i grow tired of thrashing RoboHelp into submission.

on music

picked up talking heads' _Sand in the Vaseline_ and _Stop Making Sense_ right before origins. _Sense_ is a live album, and someone had put the version of "Burning Down the House" from it up on the work mp3 server, and it was really good, so i figured the rest would be good too. oops. oh well. _Sand_ is a good 2-disc collection, but Talking Heads just aren't one of my favorites. it's nice to have a copy of "And She Was", though.

dar williams, on the other hand, i am duly impressed with. i got _Mortal City_ yesterday for 55 cents plus four or five discs I don't listen to anymore. i am now about halfway through the first track and very very happy with my purchase.

reminds me a bit of Carbon Leaf, only with better voice. and now into the next song, better music too. thank you, sarah and scott and steph.