neurological dryer lint

cardinal ratzinger transformed and rolled out to become autobot leader benedict xvi. congrats dude.

i haven't really been thinking about this whole pope thing very much. i know a handful of people who call themselves 'catholic', that are serious about their relationship with God. i've always been kind of curious - honestly, more in a 'see something in a museum' way than a 'could this work for me?' way. i'm very happy about where God and i am and i don't feel like a particular structure would do me much good. but i'm not everyone. still, there are some fascinating ideas that their flavor of faith enjoys, i think.

anyway. the pope-ah. this whole thing is a really big deal, turns out. we were eating lunch at the friendly stop in glendale (tasty burgers!) and every TV had the camera pointing at a window, with the banner underneath screaming "WE HAVE A POPE!" like homeboy won on wheel of fortune or something.

i would normally make some snide, arrogant, disapproving-hidden-behind-mock-sentiment comment, cause i'm not very nice all the time. i don't want to do that, though. there are thousands and thousands of people hanging out at the vatican, and they're celebrating, and a portion of them are probably in real, intense, captivated conversation with God and that's pretty sweet.

renee called me a nerd like eight times tonight cause i'm gonna make a sweet it's a trap shirt for the star wars premiere. merkel and trump are also going to join me, we're gonna do em next weekend.

come on. it's the last one. i'm not going as a wookie or something.

anyway. all tickets are claimed now. watch, they'll open up a digital showing like two days before the opening, and we'll be hosed.

i'm entering my fourth week at GE. this was a really, really good choice. turns out i'm fairly close to getting my CCNA (a Cisco-authored networking certification), and that's just step one. i could rack up several big certs in the space of a few years. which calls into question, will i be doing this in a few years? doing a lot of thinking on that lately...

big certs just brought to mind a vision of an enormous tube of breath mints. each one would be the size of a frisbee.

if you could blow up a food item to enormous size, and then eat it, what would you pick?

listening to: eric b. & rakim - follow the leader