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News front pages from around the world – cool stuff. If only the images were then linked to the stories online…

Today’s caffeine intake: high.

Pthhh, let’s see. I had a cold all last week, and a ton of work to do. I worked my ass off to meet as many deadlines as I could, and it felt good, even if the cold medication made me feel as if I was floating 3 feet off the ground. Yesterday it hit me like a ton of bricks and I didn’t go into work. I slept in until noon and it was exactly the rest that I needed. Still wasn’t feeling 100%, though. Went and did some shopping in Waterloo. I needed some nice clothes desperately, and ended up buying a ton of stuff at the Gap. In the evening we had pizza with Laura and Erin & Dave and then went to see a play at the Guelph Little Theatre that one of our friends was in. The play was called “Cosi” and it was very very funny. We almost got lost on the way though – Laura had some bad directions to the place and so we were 10 minutes late. As a result, I ended up getting a parking ticket for… wait for it… parking faced in the wrong direction. Of all the stupid-ass infractions. I didn’t even know that it existed.

CBC News: Powell’s evidence fails to sway most of Security Council. Surprise, surprise. The show-and-tell session seems to have been filled with mostly hot air and unconvincing satellite photos. I’m sure I could pull up some satellite photos of some factory in the US from TerraServer and label some round things “chemical storage” and some rectangular buildings “missle assembly building”. Sheesh.

Yes, that’s an awful title. I know.

My favourite way to give back to musicians lately is to attend concerts instead of buying CDs. Consider that the vast majority of artists will only get half a dollar or less per CD sold, while they get a decent percentage of the ticket price at a concert. After a debacle a while ago where I totally forgot to buy tickets for the No Doubt concert, I’ve been really trying to spot concerts that we would want to go to and snap up some tix. (And missing Sum 41 tickets was not my fault!)

Anyways, we currently have tickets for two very different upcoming shows: Sleater-Kinney and Zwan. One’s an all-female indie punk-ish band from Seattle, and one is a new band from ex-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain. Variety is the spice of life, you know… damn, I didn’t get tix for Swollen Members either!

Sandy’s got the flu. I’m not feeling too great either – I think I slowed down enough for this cold to catch up with me. And I’m out of tissues at work. Great.