It’s been a rather excruciating day, both because I have no, nada, zero, zip, zilchamundo work to do, and because today we had an uncomfortable pizza lunch with our counterparts in the company we just acquired. One woman put it well: “It’s like a blind date, with awkward silences and questions about your commute.” She was also the only one honest enough to say, “Don’t bother remembering me; I’m one of the ‘transitionals’.” (i.e., kept on-board until June, then axed.) Eep.

So now I’m trying to fill the last couple of hours in the day before I can join my colleagues in some beers. The one consolation of having to sit through a company meeting is the end-of-day beers, and I’m lucky enough to work with people who start before the company-sanctioned beer-time.

Listening to the new(ish) Tall Dwarfs album. Not sure what I expected, but this ain’t quite it. Pleasant in an ADD kind of way. Hmm, just looked it up in the Allmusic Guide, and they’ve never heared tell of it.

Elizabeth the Super Editor just brought some graphics I can work on, so da Editrix has left da hizzouse. Peace out.