Best-laid plans gang aft agley

I'm quite pleased! My work is giving me an extra hour to vote tomorrow; I think I'll take either a long lunch or a late morning. I'm loving getting up an hour later by my body's clock, but I know all too well that I'll adjust soon. And I'm gonna hate driving home at night for the next few months.

This morning, I gave all the buttons on my radio the chance to hold my attention by playing some music. Sadly, they all insisted on taking phone calls instead, so they lost to the mp3 player.

I'm sorry I couldn't make it to VTSFFC Halloween - especially since I'd been looking forward to it for months :( But 2 tanks of gas hit my check card a lot harder than they used to, and I just couldn't swing it. Those VTSFFCers I don't see at MarsCon, I hope to see at Technicon.

Since my original Saturday plans didn't work out, I ended up going to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Naro theater down here. It was a pretty fun show, with some good cast members and excellent costumes. It suffered from "line creep" - so much shouting of lengthy response lines that 75% of the movie's drowned out - but hell, it's not like I don't know all the dialogue already. Yes, I dressed up :) They run their show about once a month, and I'm tempted to make it a repeating thing for me.

Sunday was a very good day. In a seeming non-sequitur, I want to mention that I love raininva very very much. She's always reminding me why I'm so happy to be with her.

The Matrix was built near Radford

I had no idea that William Gibson was originally from western Virginia.

I've not been too impressed with anything he's written since Mona Lisa Overdrive, but Neuromancer still holds up well. If you've ever played the Shadowrun RPG, you should certainly read it.