The Early Friday Wrap-Up
This hasn't been a particularly crappy week for me in any way. But it is the last week before Paula and get to see each other again and that's been a pretty big impetus to getting to the weekend and into next week. I get her for a whole week starting next Wednesday and I'm so very much looking forward to having her. Its easy to lose sight of the fact that, this time next month, we'll be living under the same roof and I'll be lucky enough to see her everyday. But until then, we both hate being apart from each other.

One easing of that burden of absence is her new calling plan on her cell phone that gives her free long distance after 8 so that now we can chat for a few hours where as it used to start up at 9. Soon that won't be necessary at all as we'll just nudge each other if we want to talk or whatever.

Workwise, things have been going well on numerous fronts. We're filling the vacancy left by our pal who wouldn't sign the NDA with a guy who appears to be a star, over qualified for the position but welcome to the Santa Cruz economy circa Feb. 2003. Find a job you can do that keeps you local and pays decently well? JUMP ALL OVER IT! My PR side of the effort has been making good strides this week as well with several new regular placements in the works, better targetted outreach to clients and press releases coming out my ears with the four surveys all coming out at once pretty much.

Interesting Fact for the Day
Feb 07, 1882, The last bare knuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.

That's 125 years ago now but this doesn't mean that all bare knuckle boxing ended after this title fight. It was the cheapest form of fighting there was really and money was scarce back then so local boxing matches were still bare knuckle well into the next century.

New Book I'm Reading
Robert Wright's Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny which has already, in the first dozen pages or so before I had to sack out last night, resonated with me strongly in the same vein as Daniel Quinn's The Story of B that I finished not that long ago (though I need to read the teachings again). Robert Wright is much more of a scientist and less of a story teller, his writing is not quite as accessible but I feel like I'm covering alot more new ground with him. With Quinn it was much more of a putting things I already knew into words.
I will have to make sure to get myself a copy of his other two books, The Moral Animal (which I've already read but should read again as it was superb) and Three Scientists and Their Gods. Keep in mind that Wright's titles are way longer and more illuminative than what I'm tossing up here.
If you're feeling the need for some challenging reading then I don't think you can go wrong with Robert Wright though strongly religious persons might wish to read something else.

And another new Blog to Add
All Out of Angst is a pretty interesting blog on first site and bears some further research. Luckily its Friday and the weekend beckons.

And there will be more today, of that I'm sure. In fact I know because I've got a link that Jay sent over that's from a few years ago but still made me laugh out loud several times.