Notes:

"If we could travel faster than light, this interstellar war would be a lot less boring." - On a Blade of Grass - Escape Pod.

The bus this morning had to stop and pick up the dozen or more people who had to get off an earlier bus that apparently had something wrong with it. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Except, the bus then passed us as we pulled away. Sure, something was wrong enough to not want passengers on the bus, but not broken enough to stop the bus from returning to the barn under it's own power. Still, annoying.

I spent most of my day trying to get two computers to talk to each other. It all boiled down to firewall settings. We knew this and yet, we could not do much about it. Every time you start down a path when it comes to modern firewalls, you find yourself falling in to a new trap. It is no wonder that it is a full time job to administer network security these days. It is a nightmare.

Someone was on the top floor of the parking garage running an RC car. It took me a minute to figure out what the noise was. It sounded like one of those high speed racing models. Looked like fun. By the time I grabbed the camera, the person was done and packing up.

While stopping to ponder the universe, I noticed the sunshine reflecting off a flat spot in the concrete before me. The universe can wait. This is beauty. As one learns to think in the languages of machines, the world becomes cloudy and looses the little magic bits. The child sees the sparkles of tiny flat stones in the concrete. The man sees only a road to tread and bills to pay.