Riding the train. I overslept this morning, for the first time I can remember. Oh, sure, I'm a snooze-slut, resetting the alarm to give myself another 5 to 20 minutes for good behavior, but this morning I turned off the alarm, and closed my eyes for those last five minutes to sweep up my subconscious after the revelries of yesternight's dreams.

But the dreams weren't done with me, and I had two more before I woke up 30 minutes after the train left. Still, if I rushed I could still catch the late train, so rush I did. Even so I missed the train (or I presume that I did) in Jack London Square, instead rushing on to Hayward where I'd have a better shot.

So now I'm on the train, starting over an hour late at what already promised to be a hellishly busy day. Still, I get both of the big plusses of riding the train to work (surprisingly, 'saved time' isn't usually one of them): A little time to write (and I can hear some of you calling out right now, asking why I'm spending that time writing about this morning when I could be writing a dotcom story...), and a 'hard-out' at 5:30.

What else is in the news? Today is my one year anniversary at Yahoo!, three of my closest friends are out of town, Spanish class was cancelled yesterday, I got new contact lenses (I just put them in for the first time, and had to switch because I got left and right messed up), I got a funky new pair of headphones that stick all the way inside the ear canal. They have a dynamic range from 6Hz to 24Khz. That's some pumping bass.

I've got tons on my mind in every direction. I'm going apartment-hunting in Pittsburgh the week after leaving Yahoo!, and going to Brown Island with family the week after that. I've just found out that Richard Powers is teaching a Waltz Week in the last week of July, and I'd love to go, which suddenly means my huge downtime is reduced to just three weeks idle. Time flies, flies away. and now I'm at Santa Clara, and have to pack up my things here too. Bye!