Going

My mood is:

I just finished writing a functional brief and deploy instructions for a project I’ve been working on. Now it is out of my hands.

So tomorrow we leave for Oman at around 3pm. I am so happy to have a week in a strange place with no work. I’m disposing of the rest of my evening by “browning down” ^* and burning CDs to play in our rental car. So far I’ve got the new Built To Spill, Oneida’s The Wedding and Come On Everybody Let’s Rock, and I’m trying to burn Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Tepid Peppermint Wonderland, but iTunes is giving me grief.

It was recently brought to my attention that my online journal is the #1 result when Googling “ethan beirut”. The last I had checked it was #2. Gagner! Googling “ethan brooklyn” only gets me #22.

* “Browning down” is actually what UPS managers and executives call it when they have to don the brown uniforms and go out into the field.