Any of you who read my away messages during the day have most likely noticed a pattern. All I do these days is work, go to the gym, eat dinner, and sleep. Day after day, all the same. And because 9 hours of the day is spent on the computer, the last thing I want to do when I get home is look at a monitor for any reason, and unfortunately this limits my ability to post, since no one has yet invented the super USB cable that plugs directly into my brain.

It's probably for the best that I don't post as often, though, since I work so many hours that the topic of most of my posts would be how much my job resembles Office Space (without the grand larceny, arson, or Jennifer Aniston) and how I spent the last 4 days programming in .NET for 9 hours straight with barely a lunch break. It's a lot more difficult to make observations about popular culture when my only experience with it is the advertisements I see on the Metrolink.

But one thing I have noticed during my rare forays into the outside world away from the warm glow of the computer screen is that, in an effort to alleviate the traffic burdens on Delmar due to the Forest Park closing they've put up a sign that says "Delmar is congested, use alternate route through Olive". Well there's the understatement of the year, Delmar is congested. It took 15 minutes to go 1 mile on Delmar before they closed Forest Park, and now it's even worse. But last time I checked a map, Olive was not a desirable alternate route, since it is has a traffic light approximately once every half a block. I might as well take 64 during rush hour. It moves at the same speed, and is just as far away from Forest Park as Olive is. Are 3 years of construction closings over yet?