A few unrelated thoughts

Is it possible to be a middle-right libertarian when the government (indirectly) pays you? I'd like to think so. Despite my new job working for a government contractor, at least I can say that when the govt (fed and local) buys our products, they are eliminating waste and probably becoming better governments...

Speaking of work, this current week was my first week with real work. There wasn't too much of it, since I'm still learning the system and my team isn't horribly swamped by work at the moment, but I've been busy enough. All the people I work with are pretty cool, its a very easy-going atmosphere. That came through during the interviews, so I'm glad I wasn't disappointed once I started. I was supposed to get a laptop, but someone ordered developer desktops for us instead...at least they are fast, 2GB of RAM tends to do that.

One of my friends who disappeared for a while got in touch with me yesterday. I think a lot of people have been fucking with his head for the last month and a half. Hopefully he normalizes again... but that's only one possibility with the other being that my friend as I knew him will disappear. That's sad because he's a really good guy too.

I'm going to Pittsburgh this weekend to Kenzie's mom's house for the 4th of July weekend.