Many things afoot, as usual.

Often I find myself looking for the most important thing that I could say in a blog post, but that is a conceit that usually turns out to frustrate me. There are simply too many things that happen to a body during the day to write them all down, or even to pick the most important ones.

I stayed home from work today, feeling unwell. I'm not sure how much of it is psychological versus physical. Very much job-related, I'm afraid.

I decided that I won't waste space in this post on work-related bullshit. Suffice it to say that I am worn down from my time at this company. I feel stale.

Shel's been looking around for work, for both of us. She periodically forwards things my way. Tonight I'm sitting down to look at a few of them.

We started watching Battlestar Galactica -- the new series, starting with the miniseries. I'd heard both good and bad about it, and while I initially had misgivings about some of the more radical departures from the original design, after watching it, I can honestly say that it is some of the best sci-fi I've seen since Joss Whedon's Firefly. You, whoever you are, geek or not, need to go watch yo'self some BG in a hurry. C'mon already. I mean, Commander Adama is played by Edward James Olmos, who we know kicks @$$ as a boss from his days in Miami Vice.

Our friends CAH, WH, and JH came to visit this weekend, and it was a great time, albeit exhausting. We went two places Shel and I have talked about visiting but hadn't as yet followed through: Brookfield Zoo and the Shedd Aquarium. Both were worth every penny. Zoo-wise, I'd only been to lame versions, like the Birmingham Zoo. Consequently, I was in no hurry to visit another. It was, however, a terrific place. Wolves, Bears, Snakes, Elephants and a terrific Primate house. What was best about it was the carefully scripted way in which the visitor encountered the animals. The entire zoo seemed a calculated presentation to encourage wildlife conservation via thoughful edutainment. In this project it was a great success. I sure wish I'd had this kind of experience as a kid.

Hanging out with our friends made me miss, well, hanging out with our friends. We've got one pair of Chicago-native friends 'round here. Although I will say that Shel has been doing a great job in the past couple of months of meeting our neighbors.

We have to move on with life, somehow. I can't stay in this job forever, though I don't know where to go next. CAH suggested that I look into the IT job that will be coming open at his institution. But he can't even get the words out of his mouth before he follows up with a firm statement that I would be miserable in a place like the town his school is in. It's a one-ATV town.

Okay, I'm off to read some job descriptions.