And now for a much-needed vacation. Tomorrow, Laura and I will go to Tybee Island, off the Georgia coast, where we will be staying for about a week. I expect updates to be few(er) and farther between.

While perusing this price list of performers, I thought to myself, “Wow, I could sell my car and have Ice T rap in my apartment.” Now wouldn’t that be k-rad?

This is what I get for asking Laura for money.

And yeah, I presented it to the bank teller with a great big smile.

If you’re in the mood for Middle-Eastern food, check out the Falafel Cafe on Cobb Parkway in Marietta. Finding the little cafe is not easy, but it’s worth it. This is by far one of the best Middle-Eastern restaurants I’ve been to in the Atlanta area [out of three]. Yesterday we had stuffed grape leaves and eggplant dip as appetizers, and the falafel platter. I ordered the appetizers because I simply refused to believe that a $4 entree made entirely of vegetables would fill me up. I was very much wrong; the falafels are delicious and the pita-style bread is very filling.

This is definitely a restaurant I’ll frequent.

When I was bored and unwilling to do work, I asked Laura to tell me a story.

Laura: “I used to have 7 toes on each foot, but I had the extras removed. I keep the extras in a pickle jar full of vodka. Only 3 are left though because, once, someone ate one thinking it was a Vienna sausage.”

Me: “Aww, Poor missing toes! You could tape the old ones on?”

Laura: “But then I’d have to keep my feet in vodka.”

Me: “You could save on nail polish, if the vodka were colored. And if you could convince your flesh to act like celery, you could have hair that matched the color of your vodka-soaked toes.”

“Just don’t light a match.”

“Why’s Laura bald?”

“She had to pickle her spare toes.”

“Oh.”

Rawr! I really need a Firewire hub that’s shaped like Godzilla!

How you can tell that ‘Unxmaal’ is Evil:

   U   N   X   M   A   A   L

  85  78  88  77  65  65  76     - as ASCII values

   4   6   7   5   2   2   4     - digits added

  \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/

   4   6   7   5   8             - digits added

Thus, "unxmaal" is 46758.

Turn the number backwards, and add 1986 - the year a postman in Okhlahoma gone postal, killing 14. The number is now 87750.

Turn the number backwards, and add 1939 - the year WW II started. The number is now 7717.

Turn the number backwards, multiply by 3 - the symbol of fulfillment. The number is now 21531.

Turn the number backwards, and add 1912 - the year Theodore Roosevelt was shot. The number is now 15424.

Subtract 8691 from the number - this is the year Martin Luther King was shot to death, written backwards. It gives 6733.

This, when read backwards, gives 3376. This is 1790 in octal, the year US patent system was established (eevil)…

Evil, QED.