Not the first, nor probably the last time I do a little quoting of Tori Amos in the title. ;)

Well, I suppose our big news for today is that my trip to Atlanta in September has been confirmed. On Tuesday, the 19th, I will be waking up at a some ungodly hour of the morning to board a plane to Atlanta. When this occurs, I believe it will set a new record: The trip promises to be the farthest to the east Bitscape has ever been in his entire life! Woohoo! (And perhaps the farthest south as well!)

And what exactly will Bitscape be doing while he inhabits this most foriegn territory? I'd tell you all, but then I'd have to kill you. (Which would mean going through my apache logs with a fine tooth comb, checking each IP, tracking down the geographical source of every hit, making the necessary travel arrangements to hunt down each and every individual who views this page, and hauling all such persons with contraband information into my secret torture chamber underneath the basement closet. It sounds like a job for... my buddies at the MPAA! Go get 'em lawyers!)

Ahem. I digress.

Seriously, it would appear that I will be travelling to another office on the other side of the country to spend 4 glorious days (minus travel time) doing.... [drumroll]... pretty much the same type of work I do here. lol.

But hey, if someone else wants to pay my travel and lodging expenses, use hours that would otherwise be spent programming/testing/debugging 30,000 feet in the air, and acclimate me to a foriegn work environment (cause you know it took me several hours to get all the keybindings on my work PC configured for optimum working speed), all in the hopes that my productivity will somehow be boosted because I'm sitting in front of a console over a thousand miles away, instead of seven miles away, well... more power to them! :)

(At least that's my attitude for the first trip. If I go there, and it turns out to be really stupid and/or miserable, then next time, I'll just say I have other plans or something. For this iteration, I'm thinking of it as a grand adventure into the unknown -- to boldly go where no provincialistic ultra-sheltered Colorado-loving semi-native has gone before! I must admit that I have a certain degree of trepidation mixed with the excitement, however.)

This will be the first time I've boarded a plane in... [thinks back]... 13 years. Wowee.

And now children, let us all power up our DVD players, insert the Fight Club disc, and jump to the beginning of chapter 9 -- the scene involving the oxygen masks.

[Bitscape does so.]

There. Nothing better than that imagery to put the mind at ease! :)

[Bitscape now battles against his instict to allow the movie to capture his attention, let it continue to play, and completely distract him from the rambling at hand.]

In other news, yesterday Bitscape did send a carefully thought out email regarding his moral concerns to someone higher up at the company. Today, he did receieve a response, and if I may dare to quote the unnamed person of ranking position, it was "a lot to digest". Meeting face to face next week. (Normally, it would probably be much sooner, but these days, I'm far from being the only one with traveling plans.) Wish me luck.

So, to summarize, I don't think my life will be short on activity at all in the coming weeks. These are interesting times.

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Soap. I make and I sell soap.

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Someone was talking about that movie on the way back from lunch today.... Let's see....

Oh yeah, Project Mayhem! The perfect solution to that building across the street that's going to have three floors full of... you guessed it... software patent lawyers. (No joke, at least if my coworkers are to be believed, and I have no reason to doubt this information.) Oh joy!

Oh well. This is getting rather disjointed and pointless now. The obvious solution for that is to...