This is the first post made the “easy way”; that is to say, without requiring an ftp client.  Now I’ll be able to make a post from anywhere with internet access!

So as of nine-something this morning I completed my twenty-third trip around the five billion year old thermonuclear bomb you might refer to as “the sun.”  As usual, I didn’t really feel any different than the day before.  Plus the only people I know in Charlotte are the people I work with, and I didn’t tell anyone there that it was my birthday today.  I already celebrated my birthday with my friends in Raleigh last weekend... Stephanie got me Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind on DVD (great great movie...) and Garrison got me season 1 of Upright Citizen’s Brigade (which is way more hilarious than I remembered it being when it was on the air).  This weekend I’m heading home to celebrate my birthday with my family.

So at work I have this cabinet thing in my cubicle that’s like five feet high with translucent plastic sides (except the door which is opaque).  The plastic sides are made up of kind of a grid.  I decided I’d made that grid into a chess board, so last night I found a chess pieces font and created this chessboard.  Except that image is about one-tenth scale, the original was 300dpi and each image was 2 7/8 inches wide, so the whole board was a 46 megapixel image!  Of course it was a two-color image, so memory-wise it wasn’t too big...  But it took eleven sheets of paper to print it.  Anyway I stayed an hour late after work to put it up (each square had to be individually placed).  I’d like to take a picture of it because it looks super-cool, but I’m pretty sure taking photographs is against workplace policy (I know it was a big no-no at IBM).

Since Garrison explained to me that the italicized quote is kind of how everyone does blog postings, I think I’m gonna start doing it, at least some of the time.

And that’s about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you’re twenty-three