How do you tell when sausage is finished cooking? Well anyway, when I look down the hall towards the front door and can only see white haze, it's probably time to turn the fan on and open some doors.

Today was band practice, as is every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday these days. I had stayed up all night working on a monitoring tool for work ("The good news is it appears to work. The bad news is we're never going to make any money ever again.") so at about 12, I began a nap, setting my Palm to make an annoying noise at about 3:30 pm. One nice thing about the clock application I use is that you can configure it to have a custom alarm tone. One problem I have is that my brain eventually completely tunes out the noise of my alarm clock, so that it no longer wakes me up (or even catches my attention when I'm awake), so I have to change alarm clocks from time to time or be perpetually late. With custom-made alarm tones, I can make a new one every couple of days, and the novelty of the sound wakes me up right away, even though the maximum volume of a Palm is not very loud. Not this time, though. It did not wake up from sleep mode, and so neither did I.

I knew the milk was bad, but I wasn't expecting to see bright red streaks in it when I poured it into the sink. Red fungus? I will try not to think about the bright red streaks in my old milk.

I read on a rumors page that there were two or three small "planetesimals" orbiting our sun outside the orbits of pluto and neptune, just big enough to merit the consideration of people who specialize in that sort of thing, like the outer islands of Hawaii. There are even smaller bumps in the Ocean floor past the outer islands, but these are called "seamounts" or something, and few people think about them at all. Sort of like the Oort cloud, I guess. This metaphor seems to suck, but then you consider that it would make Japan a whole other universe, which seems perfectly logical if you've ever watched Japanese commercial television.