I learned two things yesterday:
1) You are working too hard if you need to get gas, go to the ATM, and take a shower all on the same day, and you have to pick only one of the above due to time constraints.
2) You are not getting enough sleep if, when you try to bull through all three above activities, anyway, when you step into the shower you discover that you have forgotten to remove your glasses.  Luckily, it was just the glasses.

And a bonus bit of knowledge:
*A chocolate covered cherry, dropped in your mug of coffee, makes the coffee delicious.  It also dyes the inside of your white, plastic, thermal mug a vivid red.*

I really like the natural gradation of the cloudy sky in this one.  You really need to click on this one, and investigate the larger version on Flickr.  The details: the translucency of the flower petals and the green of the one little patch of leaves really are awesome in the large version!

Not much happening in Jessica Land, lately.  I'm pretty much just in a holding pattern of work, work, not-enough-sleep, repeat for the next few days until "Missionary Position" ends.  Once that happens, I have so much I want to work on and do, I can hardly see where to begin!  I think I need to get the to-do list notebook out again.  I've been neglecting it lately.  And I've only got until August to get as much done as possible, because once August rolls around, I'm back in the two job saddle until at least January 2009!
Oh!  I did get the most bizarre piece of junk mail yesterday, though.  It was a mailing from a sort of local church calling itself Avalon Church and it was the strangest missionary mailing I've ever seen.  On the front it says "Playlist...finding God in your iPod," and here's the text from the back:

This is not your typical Easter Card!  That's okay, because Avalon is not your typical church.  Pastor Ritchie Miller is known for his raw and real communication style.  Join him for this creative and humorous series that pulls out all the stops.  Using some of today's most popular songs, this series may melt your face off!

Let me repeat that.  These church services are going to melt your face off?!?!?  I am so confused as to how anyone would think that would be an incentive for attending a church service.  While I, personally, find my faith to be a source of solace, peace and serenity, I can tell they're obviously trying to entice the younger, rebellious crowd.  But really, wouldn't knock you out of your seat or even rock your world be a little better.

Melt your face off.  Seriously.  I'm not big on 'net speak, but this totally deserves a WTFBBQ!?  I can't think of any more appropriate phrase.

Oh, and I just investigated their website.  You have to purchase tickets for the Easter Services.  At the Guest Services Booth!  I'm not Christian, so the last time I was in a church was Jack and Michelle's wedding.  But, ignorant heathen that I am, I'm still pretty sure there's something not quite right with the above scenario....

Oh, and of course, today's Progression of Spring picture!

I don't know about everyone else, but my daily tree pictures are getting pretty dull.  So today, you get a bonus picture!

This isn't the best picture I've taken of my tree, but I cropped it awkwardly on purpose.  In this shot, you can see the white blossoms in the sunlit part of the tree that are only visible in silhouette on my usual branch.

And this is where I work.  Those windows used to be open space, but for some reason they decided to put us behind glass.  It's annoying, you can't hear the customers, cold air pours through those slits due to HVAC system pressure differences, and we feel like we're in a zoo or aquarium.  I swear, one day, when I'm thinking of quitting my job, I'm bringing in glass chalk and having a lot of fun!  And that's Greg, my co-worker!

I got stuck in the worst traffic jam last night.  It took me two and a half hours to make it from Midtown to McDonough.  That's only a drive of about 30 miles.  In one of those hours I only drove two miles, directly under the approach lanes for the airport.  this made me thoroughly cranky, as it was date night and that extra hour and a half on my commute was taken directly out of our date.  Tommy was waiting for me so we could get pizza.

Today I've spent half the day banging my head against the wall because of my uber-slow work computer.  They updated the virus protection to a version that apparently eats RAM for breakfast, and now it takes me five minutes (not exaggerating, I've timed it) just to switch between items on the task bar, 'cause I only have 248MB of RAM!  (as a side note, what the hell kind of number is that for amount of RAM?)  They've ordered me some more memory, but until it arrives, I'm crawling up the walls here.  It is seriously affecting my ability to do my job.  I'm actually running two computers right now so I can hop back and forth as necessary.

But, at least there are amusing things to look at out the window.  This morning around 11 about two dozen motorcycle cops went by, followed by a large herd of bicyclists.  I seem to recall a similar event happening about this time last year.  I still don't know what it was.

Looks like I'm taking a sort of summer break from theatre and then plunging right back in.  I've been offered enough work to keep me gainfully employed from the middle of August to the beginning of next January.  I've already accepted the August-November gig, but I'm going to consult with Tommy about the holiday show.  He does like to see me every once in a while.  I'd really like to have all this work, though.  I've done the math on my likely pay, and it would be enough to get me out of credit card debt and put away is savings at least a month of bills, Just In Case, which makes me happy.  AND have Christmas shopping money.  Which makes everyone else happy.

Just a few hours until fabric shopping!  Yay!!

This is not the best of the pictures I took of my tree this morning, but I'm posting it because I am amused; I caught two little birdies flying by!

This is the best one I took today.

Tommy and I, did, indeed, have our 1d4+1 drinks in honor of Gary Gygax last night.  It was amusing and geeky.  I rolled a 2 and he rolled a 3.  We toasted such things as Saving Throws, Prestige Classes and The Fucked Up Math That Was THAC0.  We then got into an amusing discussion about what sorts of rolls you'd have to make to be able to go to the bathroom when drunk.  We finally settled on a Con Check to see if you were drunk or not, and then a Dex Check, for guys, to see if they actually hit the toilet or not.  Tommy tried to argue that women would have to make a Dex Check too.  After I pointed out that men frequently miss, in good lighting, while stone cold sober, and the only time a woman "misses" is if her husband has left the seat up and it's the middle of the night, OR, if she's "hovering" in a public bathroom, he relented a bit and said that women could have a much lower difficulty.  (I still object, since no matter how drunk you are, if you're sober enough to stand up, you're typically sober enough to sit down).  Then we got a little morose and nostalgic.

Later in the night, Tommy apparently missed both his Con and Dex Checks.

But that's okay.  I passed my Spot Check with plenty to spare.