A couple of people have told me in no uncertain turns that I don't blog as often as I should. Yes, I'm lame. I admit it. Blame it on the number 37 this week.

37 is the number of hours I will have worked this week come end of the day today. You know that vacation I was supposed to be taking? Well, I'm still taking it, but it's a shame that I have almost 40 hours under my belt and it's only mid-week. Blogging has become a luxury, but that's no excuse.

Speaking of vacation, I'll be taking it tomorrow, thank you very much, in the lovely D.C., although away from Bush. I'm sure I'll be running into a couple of people while I'm there. Oh yeah, and him too.

But while I'm being lame, I've decided I will be lame for a good cause, and that's music. Yep, another meme because the cool people did one, and they got it from other cool people. I guess I should really get into the iTunes thing.

This ends a pretty damn good week, so I thought I'd go ahead and give a Friday Melodies throwdown- located under the Musical Moonrays on the right, or right here if you're so inclined. My mind needed the relaxation. I had a specific approach for setting aside the tunes today...it's up for everyone to guess what the deal is. Here are the tunes for this Friday:

Three weeks ago:

"The doctor called again, he says to give him a call."
After the visit two months ago, are you kidding? He's going to tell me about this new treatment that's going to kill me, I'm sure of it. I'll have to mentally prepare myself for that. I'll go to sleep instead. That would probably work out better.

"The doctor's returning your call...he said to call him back."
I guess I should take my time and check on my lab results before I call him back. Maybe I'll just do both when I get home from work tomorrow.

Two weeks ago:

"The doctor left a message. He says that he went to a conference and talked to some other doctors, and he has more information for you."
Is that good info or bad info? I guess I'll wait until I go see him, which is this month. I think. Or maybe it's next month. I forget. Oh, well. I have work to do.

Two days before the appoinment:

"This is the doctor's office calling. Verifying your appointment two days from now."
Oh, shit.

So I'm still doing my gym thing, as usual...and it's giving really good results. I changed up:

1. Intake of at least 3,500 calories per day.
2. Intake of at least 75 grams of protein.
3. Working out 6 days out of the week, for an hour each time.

Fantastic Flavors Fadeproof Flavors Shmoove is all over the place. Hermes is back (finally), and so now I'm happy as hell and trying to get everything straightened out. On my to do list:

1. Sleep. I'm tired as hell. Two letters: O.T.

2. This MovableType 3.0 thing is exhilarating, but it's also giving me some serious fits. If you think that commenting is painful as hell, join the club. It IS a pain. Just follow the login prompts, close out comments, and then go back into commenting again. Little things like CSS, the comment box, and templates I have yet to work out. All that being said, it's not a bad thing, and 3.0 has its pluses. I'm still really trying to adjust. Which brings me to Project EJ Cubed:

3. Exponent is on it's way into being integrated here. With version 3.0 and MT plugins, I can pull it all in. (Exporting from Typepad's going to be interesting, since it's not terribly intuitive). The warmer it gets the more the musical notes heat me up even further. There have been a couple of things going on. First off, I lost a signature, and because of it got a nice comment from:

4. Laurnea, which means that I will be reviewing the CD, I Remember. While I did lose her autograph, I did get Omar's, and subsequently I went record shopping and:

5. Met Lizz Fields, purchased her album, and went to her concert. Photogenic and musical at the same time, it's been a good thing.

6. Thanks to KB, I'm now on Burn-It: The Spring 2004 Edition. Time's running out with a quickness, but I've managed to pull it off.

7. I've joined Blogcritics now.

8. I've gotten my swole on, and I'm back up to my weight and my strength I was striving for. I'll be updating about that soon enough. Time for phase II.

Time to synch up my keyboard with my mind...

If you, perchance, should happen to see something wrong with EJ's blogland, do not fear. I'm currently on the Beta team for the new version of Movable Type. It allows me to be able to kick things back and forth and shake up the masses. Since I've already shaken it twice and managed to fix it just as quickly, if things seem to linger don't hesitate to give me a shout out. (Blogliners, don't mind me. I'm sure all of these massive alerts will cease after I'm done screwing around with testing the beta).

Additional note: If it asks you to sign in, there seems to be a commenting glitch where even after you've signed in, it constantly tells you that you haven't signed in. While I don't know what that's all about, I do know that if you close the commenting window and then reopen it, it acknowledges that you have logged in. I am documenting this bug now.

Anything else you see?