Uncooperative Crickets

The Twins beat the White Sox. Fantastic, since we gain a whole game on them. If we can do well against the White Sox now and Detroit this weekend, we will be sitting pretty.

I am also happy that Michael Cuddyer is doing well. I have always liked him, for some reason.

Skye and I saw the Indigo Girls at the Hampton Beach Casino last night. They were decent. The "casino" in the name is misleading - it wasn't a casino, and it was really a pretty decent place to see a show.

Radio commericials I like: the Real Men of Genius ads by Bud Lite. I don't want to like commercials, but I like these, much to my chagrin. These are the tributes to people like "Mr. Boneless Buffalo Wing Inventor," "Mr. Loud Cell Phone Talker Guy," and "Mr. Hot Dog Contest Contestant." They do a nice job with the cheesy background, who was actually in Surviver.

I was productive today. I completed a lot of little tasks that had just been waiting. Since I am back on summer vacation again, I am hoping to get some good research done. My goal is to get four more papers out this summer:

• My work with Ben. I think that this could be submitted right now with just a little bit of editing.
  
• My dissertation. This needs some fairly serious rewriting, but I could probably get it done in two weeks.
  
• My work with JP. This isn't a result yet, so it is a little unclear what will happen. I am being optimistic, though.
  
• Some taxicab geometry stuff. Again, I don't have results, but I am optimistic.
  

If I could do all of this (as well as make progress on my textbook), I will be absolutely thrilled. This would give me a total of six papers after this summer, which would put me in a great position to have ten publications by the time I look for jobs again.

Speaking of which, I should do some work now.

"I hope I'm not eating rear end."

posted by Dirk Awesome @ 11:45 PM