Mike woke me up this morning to ask if he could borrow my car. I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was around 8:30. I had gone to sleep around 8, so I was more than a little irritated, but the alternative was driving him myself and picking him back up. No thanks. Now I'm car-less until about 6 tonight.

The overnight gig is really starting to hurt me. I've been able to manage sleeping longer than four hours in a row about 10 times since I moved here. I have to catch my nods in the morning, and then again right before work.

Could it be the heat? The merciless sun? I'm not sure about the specifics, but my days off I stay up all afternoon, just so I can plop my head on a pillow, just as the horizon is going black. I never realized how wonderful it is to sleep at night.

The reason I got especially irritated with Mike is that it's 9:30 and I'm wide awake. I couldn't have slept longer than an hour and I won't be able to pass out again until tonight.


Note how much higher June is (still only the 14th.) 181,000 hits strong.

Fortunately, due to some serious downloading that's been going on from the site, I've actually got some work to do this morning. I'm putting all the movies onto an external server so we'll be able to show you all the movies we want, all the time. It's just a matter of getting them all off one and onto the other.

I also got a book yesterday, thicker than the Bible, about Macromedia Flash. I'll learn this program if it's the last thing I do. I have a software snafu right now, but I'll figure it out. I can't open any of my tutorial files in the program. It stinks. It keep telling me "Unexpected file extension", if anybody out there knows what that means. Anyway. I just want to be able to design a cooler site for you guys.

My sincerest apologies if a download doesn't work out today. I'll try to get the site up and running as soon as my sleep-deprived eyes and brain will allow. In the meantime, enjoy some hilarious pictures, which we often feature on the website as well.