++ TAXES - one word. suck. i can't believe i'm going to have to do them for the rest of my life. "dear internal revenue service: i am writing to you to cancel my subscription. please remove my name from your mailing list." oh yeah and i mailed off my taxes today and forgot to sign them.

COMPUTERS - i think my computer here at work may blow up. anytime i (try) to do a command (inevitably in autocad) which is 'complicated' and requires the computer to do more than just draw a line, extend, or trim a line, it starts billowing steam and "error, not responding." i forgot co-ops and interns get the computers that no-one else wants (or can use) because they are absurdly archaic.

oh yeah, i went to olympic national park this past saturday. beautiful. 6 mile hike next to a river. not quite as scenic as the halfdome hike in yosemite or the rim to river hike in the grand canyon, but pleasant and beautiful in the washington sort of way, complete with...you guessed it, rain. but i got a new camelbak (actually its a hydropak) and it works wonders and its light and i like it. ++