Wheeeee! Here we go
Zigzagging like a Corvette with the 1989 version of me at the wheel ...

--See on MSNBC that some British group has declared Sunday an "Internet-Free Day." Thinks you should get off your ever-expanding asses and go see what's out there in the real world. I can hear the cry now: "How am I supposed to know what to do if I can't check the Web to see what's going on?"
--Speaking of ridiculous "-free" days: Friday at the Very Large Metropolitan Newspaper was a "Meetings-Free Day." Upper management thought this would be a good morale-builder. The catch: The ban on meetings did not apply to meetings directly related to the gathering of news (of which I have two, daily); or meetings relating to breaking news (of which I had two on Friday.) Bottom line is this: Meetings-Free Day doesn't apply to me. And since attending meetings is 85 percent of my job, I suppose that's a good thing. Otherwise I'd be completely irrelevant.
--Went for a haircut today. That's not a monumental event in itself, but it did expose my twisted decision-making process. I walked into one location of the Cheap National Chain Haircut place, looked around, and determined the following: "All of the stylists working are unattractive people ... with bad hair." Do you want somebody with bad hair making decisions about what yours should look like? I think not. So I left and went to another location. Hairstylist had very good hair. Now, so do I, and a lot less of it. That's a good thing.
--Are we ready to see Kordell Stewart in the Super Bowl? I certainly am, seeing as how I was one of the loudest people out there on that limb six years ago declaring him The Next Big Thing in the NFL. If that doesn't happen, another great angle arises: The New England Patriots will have reached the Super Bowl ... without Drew Bledsoe. Just another reason to wonder why bad teams fall all over themselves drafting quarterbacks. This is why we love football: Because some guy you've never heard of is a heartbeat away from getting his team in the Super Bowl while Brett Favre is still trying to figure out why none of the guys catching his passes last week were wearing the same color shirts as he.
--Computer fact of the week: Did you know that having more RAM makes your system last longer? That's what it said in the magazine I read while I was waiting for that aforementioned haircut. I have no idea if it's true or not, but, as a guy who's about to drop a huge dime on a new system -- with lots and lots and lots of RAM -- I'm willing to believe.

One of the bad things about writing these little potpourris is that there's not a clean, snappy way to wrap it up. I think about a lot, usually. I've had a lull in my thinking lately. It's good to see that lull might be ending.