Not really my day, I guess. At lunch, I managed to get an entire large glass of ice water right into my crotch.

I went back home to change before heading in to work, but left my filing cabinet key in the pocket of my damp trousers. So when I got back to the ubercube [hey, does your cubicle have five stories of vertical space? I didn't think so.] I couldn't get my laptop out of the cabinet.

Oh, and I suppose it goes without saying that the computer services people still haven't given me an IP.

Oh, and I got an email today from someone who asked a very poignant question: should I really be writing posts like the above one when I'm trying to get a security clearance? So, I just thought I'd make it absolutely clear for the men in black who may read my web crap in search of evidence that I work for the Chinese or have a penchant for stealing hard drives: I have never done drugs nor do I intend to. And for that matter, I've never stolen a hard drive, proliferated state secrets, assisinated anyone, or sold cow lips to space aliens.

And I promise not to tell anyone about that mind-control ray we're working on here at the lab.

So I went to watch the colloquium here at LANL featuring Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. At the last minute, they moved it form the large main auditorium to the small physics auditorium. The 400+ people that showed up were too much for the 200 seats.

Everyone who was a lab employee got kicked out and told to watch it with realvideo from their offices. But, of course, our information infrastructure is so half-assed here that i saw about one frame per second, and by the end the audio was about five minutes ahead of the video. What a crock.