Interesting...

My Room

The Window: Your Attitude

Your choice of the "main street" window reveals a personality with a preference for an urban lifestyle. You may be described as directed, solid, concrete, busy, utilitarian, serviceable, full of life, gritty with a taste for asphalt and easy shopping. You seem to attract a crowd who is very fast, often polluted, gaseous and acquisitive.

The Music: Your Lover

You rock while your partner rolls creating a pulsing beat that reaches to your very core. Your passion is deep and demanding, yet can often be fickle as it is pulled from one trend to the next, constantly trying to find a real hot groove.

The Pictures: Your Relationships

Revealing a dramatic person who revels in the attention of a wide circle of acquaintances. This seemingly attractive trait presents a challenge as friends are pushed out on the stage of life, standing exposed with unexpected juxtapositions ready to elicit laughter or recognition. May also be used as a protective shield between relationships, eg. room divider.

The Garbage: Your Problems

Problems are no stranger to you. Your generous, hard-working nature has left you open to everyone dumping their problems on you daily. While this would cause worry and stress for lesser mortals, you have accepted your lot in life with maturity and humility, understanding that other people's problems are bringing you one step closer to salvation.

The Clock: Your Future

Your future is that of a visionary, imagining scenarios for the next millennium. You may find yourself at home in an expansive industrial space,or marking time in a future warped out of a Douglas Coupland novel. Guard against your tendency for depression at your core. It is pronounced and evident to all. While this could cause consternation your off-beat sense of yourself redefines your concave, pillowy body as a life saving buoy fed solely on peanut butter thumbprint cookies. Your hands continually caress your external self causing others to accuse you of an inflated ego, but you know that time will pass and prove you to be right on.

Guess what, I'm really 48!

OK, that was interesting...

As part of preparing for my interview with Southwest, I tried to find my High School Diploma. No luck, so I called the school to see about getting a copy, or my transcript at the very least.

I gave my information, and found out they had my records.. and they showed a different SSN and my birthdate being 4/28/56! We confirmed that this was my file, and the records are being corrected, but I have to wonder..

How many opportunities have I missed out on because of that error? I've have to wonder how many of my applications with police agencies stopped cold when my high school info didn't show a Doug Berry born on 7/4/66 in the record.

So tomorrow I pay five bucks for the transcript. Which has now been corrected.

Book Meme

From bunyip, who got it elswhere.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you

Well, if you take out the word "not," you get a pretty good description of the plan: "a richly detailed manual on how to combat terrorism."

Lies, And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken, Plume 2004