Incoherent Babble

I decided I wasn’t going to go back to work this week, since I’d already made arrangements to take off when I thought I was going to have jury duty all week. What better time to relax than the present?

Since I’m being a bum, I of course slept until 1:30 today. Afterwards, the only really constructive thing I did was go to Liquid Highway. No cutie, just the typical guys. Afterwards, since it was such an incredibly nice day, I went flying down 85 all the way to 290, which is about 10 miles out of my way. The drive home was so incredibly nice…

On my way out, I noticed that there was a car I’d never seen at Jackie’s house. She better not be getting another boyfriend… At least not until she admits her true love for me… Ah well, there’s always that dream tonight…

Oh, and I called Maggie this afternoon before I left. She called back just as I was getting ready to leave. I asked her if she had plans this week, and if she wanted to go to dinner. She was incredibly excited when I told her I was going to drive down so we could go out, but I doubt she was nearly as excited as I was about getting to see her and getting out of the house at the same time.

When I got back, I wrote my own IRC bot using PHP. Well, wrote is a loose term. I adapted (very heavily) a bot tib gave me long ago in trekstuff… It’s amazing how something seems to work flawlessly at first, but when you actually dig down into it, you realize all the nitty gritty errors that actually exist.

I also finished off Quantum Leap Season 2. It was a particularly good DVD set, definitely worth a whopping $50. The last episode: M.I.A. really got to me for some odd reason. Sam leaped in and Al told him that he had to keep this woman from giving up her husband (who was in the Navy and declared MIA two years ago) and marrying a lawyer she meets. You start to get suspicious when you see Al disappear as Sam and the woman walk into the room, and when he gets incredibly passionate about Sam sticking with it, even when he points out that “God” seems to want these two to meet. It turns out that this woman was actually Al’s wife, and the only woman he ever loved (out of his 5 marriages and countless women). When he was MIA, she finally gave up on him and disappeared with her new lawyer. When Al returned, he was heartbroken. At the end of the episode, you get to see Al tell his wife goodbye (even though she can’t actually see or hear him, since he’s just a hologram). It was one of the saddest moments I’ve ever seen on TV… This was also the first episode where you DON’T see Sam jump into his next life at the end, making you wonder what’s happening in the 3rd season.