Friday was a day of silence. It was good, and I only slipped up once. I’m getting better and better at this. I did notice, though, that most people have the desire to start up conversations, even though they know you’re not talking, and then get uncomfortable when you don’t reply.

Some people are lucky enough to have around to ask her what’s up, instead of asking me. Heh.

Yesterday was odd, and good. Paying the Board of Water and Light bill felt good, instead of tiresome. Picked up my pull from Fortress… it’s been there since March, slowly collecting Darkness titles. We also attempted to pick up a unidirectional antenna for our wireless bridge. To hear tell it, a unidirectional antenna focuses the antenna’s strength in a single direction, instead of spreading it around, like our omnidirectional antenna does. This makes sense. Well, the unit we picked up sucked like a stormtrooper sharpshooter.

I pointed the thing in the correct direction, and got 1 to 2% -less- reception than I had with the omnidirectional. So, we went back to Best Buy (we had a gift card… now we know better) and returned it. We went to CompUSA to shop around some, and found the same model for $20 less. So much for the gift card. Anyway, there wasn’t anything there that looked worthwhile for less than $70, so we took off. I may just mount the unit, with its omnidirectional, outside my office so it has one less wall to go through. Holding it up there for testing purposes will make my arm pretty damn tired, though. Heh.

Later on, I had good comic-reading happy time at Denny’s, as well as BREAKING WRITER’S BLOCK! I got some goodness down for Adam, and that made me happy. I also looked back through the piece with the crime ring, and I may bring it back up if the rumors about are true. Dude responds to emails like I do to voice mails.

The 90 days since I submitted “Two Vampires” is almost up, so I get to send an email requesting a status report. If I don’t hear back from them in a week, I think I’ll retract the submission and try someone else. Any of the other writers out there think that’s fair? Not? Somethin’?

Today is the Mage tabletop game. I’ve got some homework to do. I’ve got some workin’ to do. I’ve got the speech patterns of Firefly infesting. Those DVD’s just keep popping up.