I had an hour-long phone meeting today with a guy who really likes the sound of his voice. Actually, I think he’s just not quite right, and he likes repeating obvious things loudly and clearly. Some people on this particular call often try to talk over the guy, and that really just makes it a shouting match. The hour-long call went from 12 noon to 1:40PM. My 4PM group meeting, scheduled for an hour-and-a-half, went until 6:40PM. At least that was interesting.

MARIKO IS NOT MISSING (yet). She’s hiking in the mountains with Peter and Dr. Harris.

Yesterday at the gym, I was called a gym rat. I only go 2-3 times a week, but sometimes I’m there for 2 1/2 hours. I also was asked how old I was because I’m always picking on Timmy, the Stanford guy, like it was grade school. Ah, well. At least I got a tour of the local animation studio afterwards.