The Wizards have drawn even in the series -- this seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to go visit your friends the WizzNutzz, who're having a banner year themselves: they just got a piece in McSweeney's! Funnier than Fafblog? Aubernica says: yes!

On an unrelated note, we missed out on game 6 tickets. They previously weren't on sale -- that seemed logical, since the game wasn't guaranteed to happen. But apparently that wasn't the actual reason, because they went on sale sometime this weekend, while game 6 was still but a fevered dream. And now the cheap seats are gone. Nuts.

DON'T FORGET! you won't be able to, because i will be harassing you from now till thursday at 7 p.m.:

DCist Cinco De Mayo Happy Hour
Tunes Spun by bluestate
Chance To Complain To Our Faces in Person, Jerkwad

if you're a reader of DCist and this site, please don't hesitate to come up and introduce yourselves. despite what you may think, i am a LOVELY person.

when i'm sober i look like this ('cept usually not riding a duck. usually).
when i'm drunk i look like this, or this, or this, and will be slurring, "heyyyyy i'm shhooo glad you could come! you're beautiful!"

God damn it Flickr! The stupid photoblog service is reposting items that didn't originally go through. I can't figure it out -- I thought I had their elaborate unspoken rules charted: one word titles, something in the message body, a single photo per post. But now that I'm back in the states it seems that anything goes, and a backlog of unposted items is rushing forward. Argh.

In other news, nobody at my office did any work at all, apparently, while I was gone. Meticulously crafted instructions about how to complete urgent task A were ignored; I finished urgent task A around 10pm last night. Worse, a longstanding project is going badly. I was assigned to it, then pulled off for other duties, with a junior programmer put in my place. He seems to have accomplished -- generously -- one and a half days of work over a 3-4 week period. Now he has been pulled off of the project as well. And -- surprise! -- we're supposed to have something to show the client on Friday. "I'm sure Tom can get it done in a day or two," my boss has assured my fellow worker bees. Aside from not being true, this ignores the fact that I'm still working at a client site full time. My joy overflows.

Anyway, besides being somewhat cathartic, this is all meant to point out that I might not be able to get as much posted here as I'd like -- if I want to be able to get properly debauched at the DCist happy hour on Thursday, I'd better put in some moonlit hours now. But don't worry -- I'm sure Catherine has pent-up blogging energies to spare.