Today was like every day. My car drove well once I plugged the alternator back in, and I got to work in time for perhaps the most boring meeting of my career. Meetings are always a drag, but this one was like two hours of “Ben Stein Reads Leviticus.” I tried to pay attention but it was impossible. What scares me is that, whatever it was I missed, it won’t matter. Not one bit.

My job is hard to describe. I used to be a system administrator, but I seem to have risen to a higher rung on the food chain, where the pay is better and the work is vaguer. I’m very busy and I’m contstantly told that what I do is crucial to the business. But if I died today, this could be my tombstone:

Or maybe this:

The internet gods smiled on me after work, however, as I found many excellent websites to satisfy my ADD. I found one that generates custom tombstones, another that generates church signs, and one that generates candy hearts.

Last night Mrs. SpoonFighter and I were given tickets to the Pepsi Center to watch some tall guys dressed in blue pajamas and some tall guys in white pajamas play basketball. I think the guys in blue were called the Nuggets. Or maybe Nougats. I’m not really into sports.

There was this little guy whose shirt said “Boykins.” Seriously, he can’t have been more than 4′2″. At half time I tried to get close enough to ask him if he knew the Keebler Elves and could he maybe get me some cookies, but security stopped me.

For some reason, play stops every five minutes and these cheerleaders/exotic dancers run out onto the court. Now I know what happens during commercials. If they’d do the commercials while the players were on the court, and show the dancers, I’d watch more games. As long as my wife wasn’t home.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper today announced that the state capitol building had been seized by the City and County of Denver and would be converted to lofts. “The Capitol was one of the few old buildings in Denver that hadn’t yet been converted to lofts,” said Hickenlooper. “It was really only a matter of time.”

Hickenlooper went on to say that the seizure was entirely legal thanks to this year’s US Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. “The land has already been rezoned, and the city is taking bids from developers. Naturally, we will compensate the State government for the value of the property. Probably in Wynkoop Brewery Gift Cards.”

When pressed for comment, Colorado Governor Bill Owens shrugged. “The building was full of Democrats, anyway.”

The fight over C and D really revealed the great philosophical divide between the “small government” folks and everyone else. I believe most Coloradoans saw TABOR as a means of forcing the government to be careful with our tax dollars. Now, most of us wonder whether, with TABOR in place, we can pay for schools and roads and important social programs.

The small government crowd didn’t and doesn’t want government involved in those things in the first place. The draconian effects of the “ratchet-down” mechanism that occurred because of our recession, though surprising to the rest of us, were not an oversight. They were part of an intentional strategy to achieve small-government policy objectives that would have been impossible to achieve directly.

Found an interesting blog: Flying Saucer 17.

These album covers are awful. Check out the rest of them, courtesy of The Guardian: link.

Looks like my department is having a surprise round of layoffs and reorganization. Will the corporate overlords drop the hammer on the SpoonFighter? Is this the end of our hero? Can no one save Gotham City from the Joker? Stay tuned!!!

Ok. Looks like I survived yet another round of layoffs. Un!#%!%believable. My adventures in techno-bureaucracy continue.