As of July 16th, I am 37. But it's not been an odd year, so far. More fighting in the Middle East, Dubya expending his first veto on a bill that might have helped get me out of this damned chair, and Social Security cutting me back to $360 a month because I'm apparently not 'poor' enough for supplimentary income any more. I saw it all coming back in `94. Thanks, assholes, for voting Republican. Fuck you and all you stand for.

That said, life's not so bad. The main reason I haven't been dealing with LJ lately is that I've been shuttling between Second Life, studying C#, and reading the History of Middle-earth. More of a hermit than normal in the Summer, but my meager funds just don't afford much boozing and chasing women.

Welp, that's about all I've got to say. I'll get back with more when I'm not wrapped up in revamping some shmuck's attempt at parsing out symbolic integration in C# or Java. Laters all around.