I've been incredibly busy this week - there are some fantastic new projects at work that I'm having a lot of fun working on. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get back to a few people who have written me messages (sorry Mom!). So in the interim, here's what's up with me:

• I just passed my one-year anniversary at work. It's still a ton of fun. But the Pirate's Booty is not nearly as cheesy as it used to be. This is why.

• I've read K-PAX, Geeks, Little Altars Everywhere, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Orbiting the Giant Hairball in the past two weeks. And I'm working on Neuromancer now. They are all very good, Geeks reads like the magazine piece it was conceived as, K-PAX brings up ideas that stick in your head like scambled eggs in a non-Teflon pan, Little Altars and Divine Secrets go down easy like mimosas at brunch, but pack a kick that you're not aware of until later and Hairball is something that you have to reread several times throughout your life to derive the full benefit from it.

• I'm attempting to learn ColdFusion. I'd love to learn to put together some of the neat applications we use at work.

• I'm in the throes of a liloia.com redesign - complete with new graphics and formatting. Should be done by the end of the month, hope you like it. No floating Dutch girls though.

• Dave got me Baldur's Gate II and I'm spending every free moment (what a joke) learning how to play this incredibly complex game. The trick is that it won't work on my machine - only Dave's - so I cannot access multiplayer games.

• Dave also got me Salon Premium, which is great, because I never would have gotten it for myself. I consider it to be 'hostageware' in which they hold the wares (content) hostage until you pay for it. For a voracious reader, there's nothing more frustrating than getting hooked by a lead, then getting a message that you can't read the rest of the story.

• Survivor is over and I'm done watching tv on Thursday until it starts again. I'm down to three shows now: Project Greenlight, Good Eats and Six Feet Under when it comes back on. It's a sad day in Star Trekdom when Enterprise can't hold my attention.