Work Stuff:

Getting ready for the Christmas break. Next week should be something of a dead-zone since most folks will probably take the week off. It should make for some peace and quiet, at least.

Personal:

Since the weather is so lousy hereabouts and I have a long weekend coming up, I'll have no excuse not to get back to hacking. I also want to finish up another technical article (or at least progress it a few pages beyond where it is right now).

I came home last night and found a tract stuck in my screen door. It was one of those blurrily-printed, badly-spelled pamphlets that start out "DEAR UNSAVED FRIEND..." and goes on to explain how you'll burn in hell if you don't subscribe to this or that religion immediately. I suspect my loonybird creationist "friend" is behind this, and if so, he is going to get an angry earful from me next time I see him. He can keep his nuttiness to himself.

I have nothing against religious people in general (or religions themselves for that matter), as long as they keep their religious beliefs to themselves. It irritates me no end when some smug, self-righteous "believer" presumes to lecture me on how to live my life or passes judgement on choices I make.

If I am indeed doomed to hell, at least there is one consolation: all my friends will be there.