knock me out every time they touch me

Please allow me to take a moment to be a corporate shill. I downloaded the new Google Chrome browser to my personal laptop tonight, and so far I quite like it. The best feature, in my opinion, is having thumbnails of your most frequently visited sites whenever you open a new tab -- if your most frequently visited sites are pornographic, this might not be an improvement that you are comfortable putting on a publicly-accessible computer, but I do not have any such issues. Also, I've been having weird issues with Firefox 3, and am hopeful that Chrome will not have similar issues. So I suggest trying it out, if you are at all interested; mama needs a new pair of shoes, so any support you can give me via downloading free products is much appreciated.

Today was a great day. I realized, as I may have mentioned before, that I've achieved the focus at work that is normally only achieved by people attempting to balance strong passions for both career and family -- just like the people who come back after having a baby and seem to get the same amount done in a more condensed period of time due to their desire to get back home to Junior, I find that my book is effectively my baby. For instance, this afternoon I had to edit some slides that needed to go out before seven or eight p.m. By the time I got back to my desk to work on it, it was almost 5pm, and I needed to be out the door by 5:20 to run an errand in Palo Alto. In my past life, I would have procrastinated for twenty minutes and then done the slides at home; instead, I spent a concerted twenty minutes knocking them out, accepted less than perfection (but not much less -- yes, I am conceited), and moved on with my life. Granted, I didn't actually work on my book tonight, but I did take care of some random minutiae that has been piling up, so all's good.

So anyway, work was good, and then I ran my errand (which was to buy more felt-tipped pens) before meeting up with Terry for dinner. Since I had seen her over the weekend, there weren't a lot of surprises in the catching-up department, but I'm glad I drove today so that I was available for an impromptu dinner. Then I came home and took care of some very boring paperwork, and now it's time for bed. My goal for tomorrow is to get back to working on the book -- since I want to have a second draft done by September 14, which is a little more than a week away, I really need to keep making progress!