various ruminations (less in the ideas sense, more in the mixing chewed up grass with bacteria sense

breakfast this morning was flat dr. pepper and 20 oz of coffee served with the little spill retardant plastic lid that seems to fulfill some perverse nipple suckling fetish... though the thought of lactating black coffee is horrifying in its own sense. it seems to be assumed that whenever i'm sitting in the office working on the computer i'm not accomplishing anything useful, and thus welcome any and all visitors and distractions. this is however, not true. as i am currently trying to shift gears from project_1 which involves lots of bench work, to project_2 which is all programming. this shift has been significantly hampered by the fact that i just don't seem to want to get anything done today. i am jack's complete and total apathy towards accomplishment. actually, lets get back to the coffee. though i like 7-11 coffee, there is a general ill at ease that i find with it conceptually, having nothing to do with the actual coffee itself. I believe that this stems from its method of dispensing. 7-11 simply has a stack of coffee cups and several industrial coffee machines and warmers so that there are always several pots cooking on the warmers. You just walk in, pour yourself a cup, pay for it and wander out. apparently i have issues with beverages that don't emerge from a machine. soda, for example comes out of the fountain, being produced after you push the button. coffee, when served out of the large vacuum bottles seems normal, you press the lever, and coffee is produced. i just find myself put off by a beverage from the 7-11 not mechanically delivered. one comes to expect a comforting sort of detachment from the experience there, and having to interact with an actual coffee pot kind of ruins that.umm...car's not ready yet, may not be tomorrow depending on whether they get parts or not. grrr. mac os 10.2 released on saturday, and i don't yet have a copy. off my gameideas keep moving in and out of focus.trying to get a sample of industrial desicant for the lab... as of yet unsuccessful.