favorite new site

Good old websurfing took me to a new favorite site today: http://www.onelook.com/ I can get a list of 1,000 words that start with J, or do a reverse lookup on a word when I know there's a better word for what I'm trying to say, and it's on the tip of my tongue, I just can't think of it. Yay for technology!

time flies

Yeah, I got put on retainer and then they said, "hey, could you be down here for a meeting on Monday?" and I said, "this Monday?" and they said, "yeah" so I discovered I'm not in a position to drop everything and just travel on a whim. It took me two solid days of hard work to get out the door. Home now. Meetings finished. I think it was worth it. I actually enjoyed the drive home, going from brown and urban to green and wildernessy. Better than driving through the night, too, which is what happened on Saturday. I brought the dogs with me. They stayed at my sister's house while I was working. Their kids seemed to have a good time with them. Now it's back home, on the clock, dealing with deadlines and oppressive heat. This does not bode well for the temperature in August. Fortunately, we have only two months of real summer and we're at least one week into the first one. It won't last forever.