  I guess that's why they call it "work. " Gotta snap out of it -- I can't get crap done! And there's lots of crap to do! but I'm home now and having a beer and relaxing in this stuffy house in front of a fan. can't complain at the moment! it's freaking beautiful out and I got to ride my bike all the way home -- yay! I should go play fetch with the dog now so I can get to bed soon.
I love to stay up late but damn if it doesn't just about kill me to do so! In any case, I'm a happy camper today since I finagled a Gmail account invitation. $2.25 on eBay was all it took! I'm surprised by how clean and easy it is -- and I didn't expect that it'd be too much different from something like Hotmail. In fact, I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't more to play around with at first. But now that I've sent and received a couple e-mails, I see the beauty of it all -- a very clean and intuitive design, which is truly an accomplishment considering that they display things differently than most other e-mail interfaces. Significantly different, but you can still figure out exactly what's going on with only a second or two of poking around. And it's quite snappy, with all their fancy little javascript routines or whatever they use. Beautiful.
Send me an e-mail -- just string together my first name and my last name, @gmail.com. That's my biggest disappointment, I suppose -- your username has to be 6 or more characters, with a period being the only special character (and the period doesn't count as a character to get you up to 6). I wanted mjt@gmail.com, but that's not gonna happen. Alrighty. This is the beginning of a beautiful blog. We'll see how often it gets updated! 
