I have no idea for a post

This post is largely free of any intellectual content whatsoever. I just dropped by and noticed "wow, it's sure been a long time since I last posted!" So I figured I'd just type something out, stream of consciousness style, edit lightly, and hit the orange button.

It has long been an observation of mine that when my friends acquire girlfriends, the vast majority of their free time disappears. "Fascinating," I thought, "girlfriends appear to eat nearly all of one's free time." Then, somewhat to my surprise, I found myself girlfriended, and surely enough, the vast majority of my free time immediately evaporated. "Where did it go?" I wonder to myself, sometimes. I'll have to ask her if she knows.

I'm going to go and help a coworker move tomorrow. If anyone would like to come along and help, I could use the help. Since he's moving within the Salt Lake valley, I plan to also spend some time in Salt Lake, possibly acquiring chocolate and/or Ikea furniture. These are both things which are more interestingly obtained in Salt Lake.

Badly spoken English is something of a pet peeve of mine. For some reason, this seems to hold true even when the English is, strictly speaking, French. I present this specimen: voila. This French word means something like "look there!" It is often accompanied by pointing. The problem is that, in the hands of non-French speakers, this word is frequently mutated into "viola," a pleasant but totally unrelated musical instrument. Today, I actually heard someone SAY viola when they MEANT voila. I winced.

Thus, I invent this rhyme:

I before O is played with a bow,
but swap them around to show what you've found.

Perhaps you can think of a better one. My brother once told me about an online text-adventure game he played, in which one could find a character called "the ghost of the English language." The ghost could confer upon you the power to use the public chat channels, but before it did so would give you a quiz about proper English usage. Players were not allowed to speak on the chat channels until they had achieved a full 100% score on the quiz, which they could take as many times as they liked. When one succeeded at the quiz, the ghost would say "now go forth, and avenge my death!"

That is all.