I’m an asshole. It’s been a while since I’ve written here. I know I said that I would be better, but I’ve been a busy man. I have excuses. I’m sure my 5-15 readers/day aren’t really all that interested in my excuses, but I’m going to write them anyway.

The Valentines Day trip to DC that the girlfriend has posted about here was a great time. I think she did a good job explaining what went on. A little outside her scope would be the “space-y museum” we went to on Sunday. The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly is a more accurate description. I’ve never been there, but have always wanted to go. They have a space shuttle and an SR-71 Blackbird. They also have the Enola Gay. The space shuttle was friggin’ huge.  I had no idea they were that damn big. Very cool to stand next to it. The SR-71 is also a neat plane. I stood there and fired off facts and info at the girlfriend while we were looking at it. She was uninterested. Not that I can blame her, though. Planes that fly 2200mph+ just aren’t her thing. Standing next to the Enola Gay was accompanied by a weird feeling. Being about 5 feet from something that killed around 140,000 people in once day makes my brain, not to mention my soul, hurt a little. My feelings on nuclear warfare can be left for another day, though. All in all, it was a FANTASTIC weekend. Good times.

I’ve been super crazy stupid busy at work lately too. This sucks to an extent, but at least I have a job. The job market right now is not so hot for manufacturing engineers. I’m planning a post on industrial safety at some point coming up here. This may sound like it will be boring and useless. I promise, you’ll be suprised…in a good way.

I know these are bad excuses. I don’t care. I’m busy and lazy and tired and my brain hurts, damnit. I will make it better by coming up with a new feature. Here goes “Headlines”. I’m going to list some news headlines that may or may not be real. You get to guess which are which. I’ll post answers at some point in the near future. Hooray for fun times.

1. California Aquarium Blames Flooding On Curious Octupus
2. Parliament of Clowns Laughs Off Financial Crisis
3. Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence of Space Looking All Crazy
4. The Obama Team’s Drink of Choice Coke, Not Pepsi
5. Virginia Beach Resident Intends To Marry Coolest Girl On Earth
6. Violence Between Repo Men, Car Owners On The Rise
7. No Sex Please, We’re German
8. Police In Bathurst, NSW, Australia Assaulted With Sex Toy
9. Woman With World’s Longest Fingernails Loses Them In Car Crash
10. Study: Alligators Dangerous No Matter How Drunk You Are

They could all be fake. They could all be factual. No cheating and looking up answers either, damnit. You must sit in suspense until I divulge the truth. I make the rules here. I’ll try to be fast with it. I haven’t got much else to do. The girlfriend is on her way to Europe for a school trip over spring break. I’m stuck here in the stupid dirty south. So goes life.