The last few months I have lost lots of sleep trying to find the answers, but I still haven't figured out what the questions are.

It's frustrating and I am tired and I felt like venting to my particlefamily (or molecule? ).

Coolest shirt, ever.

I installed OpenOffice. Hooray for free software! It's not as slick as MS Office 2007 (or 2003), but it gets the job done.

If you have no idea what I'm talking, go here.

But i finally added a new post category: geek. See the previous three posts. I probably should have done this when I started the blog way back when. Call it laziness. All geeks are lazy by nature.

In other news, happy weekend! I have to go outside now. It's 76 degrees outside. I think Fall just got here.

I was checking email on my blackberry this week while walking and I saw an open elevator door. I went for it, expecting the guy in the elevator to hold the doors for me. He didn't. I smacked my shoulder straight into the door and it almost knocked me to the ground (I guess I walk fast?) You know how sometimes door frames jump out and hit you in the shoulder? It was a little like that, except the door frame was moving. And the best part was that I hit my right shoulder, which nicely complimented the strain on the right side of my neck. Pretty soon I'll need to wrap myself in bubble wrap. I'll become the bubble boy. As long as my blackberry gets service in the bubble, that's ok with me.

Does blogging from a blackberry on public transportation in Guanajuato make me a douche?

I played a prank on one of the women in the Accounting department last summer when I was an intern at the law firm. It was harmless and fun. I replaced her chair with an identical-looking reject I found at the office that happened to have a broken hydraulic lift resulting in the chair's sinking to the bottom of its height adjustment as soon as it was sat on. I also switched everything around on her desk so that anything that was on the right side was in its corresponding place on the left side. As a result of this move, I gained a reputation as something of a prankster in the office. This was not my intention, though I am not necessarily surprised.

For Christmas, one of the gifts my managing attorney gave me was rather peculiar. She gave me a prank kit of 12 pranks. I can't decide if she's condoning my prankish behavior or challenging me to apply it, perhaps on her. At either rate, she already blew my cover by giving me a box of pranks in front of the entire firm. Of course our firm's gift exchange was done with the entire firm present (there are only about 15 of us) so everyone knows that I am now in possession of a prank kit.

At either rate, I might use the boxed pranks as diversions for more sinister pranks. No one is safe.

Since I don't like Microsoft, and I don't want to pay stupid sums of money for Office, I downloaded OpenOffice, free of charge, from their webite and have been running it for about six months. I'm happy to report it doesn't suck. It's actually pretty good, especially considering how much I paid for it. No, it's not a flashy as Office 2007, or even Office 2003, but it gets the job done. Its version of Excel handles formulas just the same as Microsoft's version, and the documents are all cross-compatible. Just be sure you save your "Word" doc as .doc so Microsoft can open it on someone else's computer.

In other news, I'm buying a plane ticket to NYC to my friend over the July 4th weekend. I'm psyched. I'm also pondering a trip to London or Israel, depending entirely on scheduling and flight prices. What was once an $1100 ticket to Israel is now $1700. Bummer. Even England is over a grand now. I remember when flights to London could be had for under $500, and I'm not talking about the "Go to London for Three Days, Starting Tomorrow" deals.