I want Photoshop. I just don't want to pay 200 bucks + for it or have the trial version ruin all the jpg files on this PC.

Bah.

Ha, I found this snippet a few days ago on a webpage disclaimer page. I found it rather amusing, when you think about a certain reader(s?) of mine.

"Ex-friends, lovers and estranged family members who have been cut out of the writer's life should refrain from reading their journal. If the relationship has ended, there is no reason you should get daily updates on the person's life."

Psh, if only I updated daily.

Anyway, in better news, in a week and one damn day, my 90 days are up at the job. I can call in sick, get health insurance, take a vacation day - what the fuck ever. Already actually did the latter. Will be going on vacation for the birthday but I'll most likely be going again in October. It's just a toss-up of where to. Southwestern has pretty decent fares - 63 to NC, 60 to Chicago, 70 to TX, 70 even to Wisconsin. Except the only real person I can stay with in Wisconsin is someone I'd rather not stay with, so I guess that rules out Wisconsin. Is it bad that I'd rather stay with strangers (technically) than supposed friends? Not if you knew said friend. Besides, Chicago is just the same as Wisconsin. It'll be chilly and bleak - aka perfect. But if I'm going to go, I need to put in time now. The only thing is, if I go to Chicago then, I won't go there for Christmas. So what will I do for Christmas? I don't know... bum around here, most likely. Other options would just be too weird for my tastes. Eventually I'll just accept the fact that I won't fit in but in the meantime, I'll pretend like it'll change sometime soon.

Speaking of things that won't change, Stupid Greg keeps IMing me now. I put him on block today because he asked for my new AL cell phone number and got rather pissed when I told I'd rather not give it to him. That's what I get for signing on AIM, I suppose. I'm sure he's going to be pissed about being blocked, that is if I ever unblock him to find out.

All right, I'm exhausted so I need to go take a shower so I can wake the hell up in order to go get shit for dinner tonight (shrimp scampi, I believe) and run an errand or two. I hope it's not busy at work today because it'd be nice to not have to think about anything and just veg but I'm pretty sure that won't be the case.

before & after