Moi, of course!  To be completely random, here’s an arbitrary extraction from an e-mail conversation with Jenny.

I [run] the pillows [through the dryer] every week when I do the sheets. It’s just part of the process for me. Mind you, I’m paranoid about unmentionable numbers of dust mites around my face while I sleep. You know, quite a few sinus complications that occur at night are due to people breathing in dust mites from their pillows. I saw that recently on Discovery or something equivalent. Gross.

See, that’s exactly what I think will happen with the housing market. Much like the internet bubble in the 1990s, I think. It’s just going to crash. It’s already hit the breaks hard.

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I’ve not run my air conditioner since last night around 11. Yippee!

I’ll look at [the book] Postwar in addition to several I have on my add-this-to-the-queue list. Right now, one of the very next to read is [Stephen] Hawking’s God Created the Integers (not a religious text, of course, but his very cool opinions on the greatest mathematical minds throughout history), three unrelated science books (The Quantum World, The World is Flat, and The Fabric of the Cosmos), the latest John Danforth work (as I blogged about yesterday, Faith and Politics), Stephen King’s Cell (which I just got), another I just bought that is a selection of poems by e. e. cummings, and a litany of others (e.g., A Little Knowledge: A world of ideas from Archimedes to Einstein clearly explained, The Homeric Hymns, The Republican War on Science, I Am a Cat, A Treatise of Human Nature, Ethica ordine geometrica demonstrata, and Stones from the River). But it’s now included. I’ll get there. Regrettably, there are far more ‘to read’ than time will ever allow.

I’m considering all of my options on pay [in my ongoing job search]. I was quite comfortable before. I believe I even told you I was putting [a lot of money] per month into savings, stocks, bonds, IRA, and so on. Could I take a cut? Sure. Could I take a significant cut? Sure. What am I willing to take? That’s different. I have a family to tend to and don’t want to ignore retirement. We’ll see. I have no qualms with taking something temporarily even if the employer doesn’t know it won’t last much beyond six months, if even that long.

And I can tell you — from way more experience than I care to remember — being in management sucks the big one. It’s horrific. Mind you, I make it as much so as does American capitalism. I want to keep up with the latest and greatest and not be defined as a hands-off manager who hasn’t a clue. If I give in to that absolutely true stereotype, I’d be happier in my various jobs, but I won’t, and therefore can’t. So I’m avoiding management jobs for now. That may not always be so, and I’m willing to stoop low enough to get one if necessary — when and if the time comes.

Oh, and I’ve not had lunch yet as of this posting.