One of my old college friends, and a co-sufferer at work, always likes to joke that he'd rather be digging ditches than doing what we do. Ya see, a ditch is a ditch. The specs for ditch digging never change. Nobody ever hands you a spoon and says, "Dig a 14" wide and 8" deep ditch the length of this road with this plastic spoon." It doesn't happen.

Today I got the chance to dig a ditch. Well, not really. But I did some hard manual labor. I helped my dad put a pool in his back yard. And part of that task involved moving a ton and a half of sand from the driveway to the pool. Over the pool wall. Getting the wall up was a 2 hour ordeal in itself. But shoveling the sand into the wheelbarrow on the driveway, then pushing the lot to the back yard, then unloading it over the wall was just incredible. I think I strained things that I didn't know strained.

I did it tho, and moved some bricks, and nailed some things, etc. Took about 8 hours to get everything done. Could I do that every day? Probably. Would I want to? No. I don't think I'll joke about digging ditches anymore.

So on the way home, I'm at a red light, waiting to turn onto the highway. It's a 2 lane turn, so that gives the asshole in the SUV next to me room to pull up next to me.

His asshole status was immediately clear to me upon seeing his SUV. For starters, he had a Ford Expedition. But that isn't really enough to brand someone an asshole. To reach that status you need huge Hella foglamps on the front, a cage over the front grille and headlights (to protect his car from wildlife when on safari), tinted windows (so... er... the giraffes and zebras cant' see in when on safari), and huge chrome wheels (and dude, why? You don't take chrome wheels offroad, they'd get scratched off in the underbrush). He had all 3, and probably a few other things I didn't take in fast enough.

Light turns green, he floors it, I floor it, and he's gone, fading into the rearview. But that's not all... out of nowhere a BMW 328 shoots by him, and myself, like we're standing still.

Go BMW-driver.

Finally... if you use Windows Media Player, you should know that Microsoft has changed their license to allow themselves to remove any piece of software from your computer that bypasses DRM (digital rights management). Which would be any media software not made by Microsoft. No Winamp, no Musicmatch. Just Media Player. That's a bleak future.

Finally, Moby is a putz. A huge freakin' putz. He's blaming the poor sales of his newest album on music piracy. Here's a thought Moby... maybe your new album blows compared to your old one? Or maybe you just haven't whored every song out for commericals, tv shows, or movies like you did the old one and got them stuck in everyone's head. Maybe the blame isn't music pirates, but your marketing or music.

Just a thought.