I woke up around 5am this morning from a bad dream.

I dreamt that I was walking out of the store and caught someone siphoning the gas out of my car. A fight ensued, and they took off. In my dream, I tried to get in my car and chase them down, but I ran out of gas just as I got out of the parking lot.

Perhaps that’s my subconscious telling me that with the price of gas today, I should buy a locking gas cap.

Of course, if I believed in Freud, my gas tank would represent my mothers womb, the hose used to steal the gas would be my fathers penis, and the whole thing would mean that I was angry from being born (and I wanted to sleep with my sister).

Or something.

Note: with the price of gas nowadays, my wife wondered if stealing a full tank is now considered a felony.

Apparently, KHQ is coming today at 11 to interview the President of our company. Someone, in their infiniate wisdom, thought it would be all spiffy and stuffs to do the interview in the control room of my NOC.

So… I’ve spent part of yesterday and all of this morning making it presentable (puting interesting looking screen up, attaching a couple of monitors to the KVM, etc).

Note: looking interesting and having actual value are two different things (I hope they don’t ask “what’s that screen for?”).

I’m going to attempt to stay out of the line of vision, but you will be able to watch it tomorrow night at 6 and 11 pm on channel 6 (if you live in the area). It might also be on the website… but I doubt it.

*EDIT* Yeah… they asked a lot of “what is that screen mean?” questions. They also got me to sit and look busy while they did the shoot. You can see the back of my fat head tomorrow at 6 and 11 (unless, of course, they edit me out… and I’m very cool with that).

We went shopping for a new dishwasher last weekend.

The old one had gotten pretty noisy over the past few years and it was time to retire it. I had priced them online and figured we’d get one in the $300 – $500 range. Man, was I ever wrong.

My wife looked at a few and settled on the Kenmore Elite TurboZone™ Dishwasher w/Premium Adjustable Rack.

It does everything, and should… because after paying for it and the 5 year service plan it cost us just over $1,000.

That doesn’t inclue instalation.

So… on wednesday… when it comes in, I’ll be getting grubby I guess.

Happy friday!

Tonight’s plan of action: Party at the Blue Dolphin!

It’s Pigman’s 54th annual birthday bash. We’re all meeting at the Blue Dolphin Tavern after work to drink, make fun of each other, and have a general good time. Pigman will post pictures on his site after the fact (I’ll be the goofy looking nerd in the tangerine shirt).

*EDIT* the pics from the party are here.

Other stuff:
We’re dropping the Durango off to get some more repairs done. The front end is pretty lose (damn ball joints) but our ’99 isn’t covered under the recall (only ’00 and newer were), so we have to pay for this ourselves. They’re also replacing the tie-rods (one of which we had done in January of ’04… but it’s already shot). Hopefully, this will fix it and stop the damn thing from eating the other parts.

And finally:
The survey results are in and it’s official: I’m one sexy bitch.