For the past two weeks I’ve been training in another position so I can cover for the one person in this company who's responsible for Tivoli backups while he goes on a week-long vacation. During this time I’ve also been busy training my replacement as I begin to transition over to my new administrator position, for which I am also in training for.

To say that I’ve been busy would be an understatement.

When time permits I come up for a breather, but when I do I’m inundated by over-reactionary Mel Gibson stories, reports of tampered news photographs, reporters focusing on Hezbollah and ignoring Israel (do they support terrorists?), dire treats of global warming (yawn…), details of the United Nation's racists tendencies (who’s surprised by this?), the VA losing (yet again) data for 38,000 veterans, AOL releasing the searching habits of its subscribers, the media wetting themselves in excitement at any possible hurricane news, Stallone is coming out with yet another Rocky movie, and the BP has announced that its oil pipeline is leaking. I'm of the firm belief that the world has officially checked itself into the Claymoore sanitarium and is begging Nurse Ratched for double servings of grape Jell-O while trying to overcome uncontrollable fits of self loathing and the blackouts that follow every medication session.

On the positive side of things, the NFL has started it’s preseason games, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends still rocks much booty, Lost (season 2) comes out on DVD next month, I’m looking into buying a home in San Diego (70% overpriced, baby!), and as of today my name offically appears on the admin’s org chart (woot!).

For all of you who sent me e-mail asking just where the heck I was, there’s your answer. It’s tough wanting to blog, but really not having the time to do so.