Maybe she was being respectful, but I recveived an e-mail that started like this:

Hi Mr. Blatt–
Here is the lineup for Friday night:

yikes! Mr. Blatt is Harvey! Not Rob!

today:

closed on the house
hang mezuzah, put iPod hifi in house
raked the front lawn grass clippings still sitting there
bought gloves from home depot to clean gutters and get paint samples
realized they were the wrong kinda gloves…
bought new gloves at the home depot, this time with blue paint tape and even more paint samples
clean gutters, realize the water can now go down, but doesn’t have anywhere to go once it gets there
apply some tape, talk about colors
clean range, microwave and dishwasher

home depot trips to date: 2
items purchsed today: two pairs of gloves, two rolls of tape

“Why We Published the AT&T Docs”
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70947-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf

I’m also hosting the file on my server.

http://www.blattcaveproductions.com/T.pdf

Reading this from top to bottom really feels like reading science fiction.

edit: added some links that make me feel disgusted
FBI to get veto power over PC software?
http://news.com.com/2061-10804_3-5884130.html?part=rss&tag=5884130&subj=news

Wiretap rules for VoIP, broadband coming in 2007
http://news.com.com/Wiretap+rules+for+VoIP%2C+broadband+coming+in+2007/2100-7352_3-5883032.html?tag=nl

I remember moving into my apartment with two boxes of stuff. Now, I’m not saying that it’s all I had, but I only had two BOXES. Everything else was packed in my trusty trunk/coffee table from college, my laundry hamper, and whatever else had empty space associated with it. This is of course a a packing specialty of mine that could only have been taught to me by someone who moved to and from college more times than I can count. Namely my older brother.

Now that I’m moving out I’ve got alot more stuff than I came in with. Obviously in two years I’m bound to accumulate things I both need and don’t need. Liek the Christie Hemme poster that came in a free copy of WWE Divas magazine. No need for that anymore. Or old local music rags from Long Island. The odd thing is that I’ve got four boxes of stuff sitting in the living room at the moment and I don’t feel like I’ve packed anything yet.

It’s a very weird feeling.

One of the jobs I have, my office in the basement of a building. When I started just a hair under two years ago, there was a library/Resource Center, the marketing department, the company learning program (”University” as they call it), conference rooms, video studios and the audio studio.

Then there was a notice that OSHA recieved a complaint about black mold somewhere in the basement. (Link:Toxic Black Mold Info.com) Great. I’m not here more than 12 days a month, not that it’s an excuse to not care or worry, but I’m not completely concerned. The next thing they did was remove the marketing department from the floor. Kinda odd timing, but they were shifting the departments around in order to keep alike departments close to each other. The next thing to go was the library/resource center personnel. I was told that the library was moving, but they weren’t sure yet so the people were gonna move first but none of the resources. Odd, but I guess it makes sense in the corporate world.

The next thing to go (in one swoop) was the coffee makers and soda/vending machines. They unplugged the soda machines and placed yellow “DO NOT CROSS” tape across the alcove that they sit in, and placed “OUT OF ORDER” signs on each of the three machines. The coffee makers were pulled out because the copany was switching from Green Mountain Coffee to Starbucks brand. I don’t care because I don’t drink coffee, but they ALSO removed the hot chocolate they were providing and since Starbucks doesn’t make packets of hot chocolate, I’m SOL on that. Bastards.

Then the computers that were placed in the hallway leading to my office/the “University” were removed. Since then I haven’t seen the rooms in use at all, and suddenly there aren’t too many video conferences going on in the conference rooms. At this point there were only 6 people on a floor that by an estimate I’d say housed 150 employees.

And then recently, the last straw, they turned out most of the lights on me. the hallway that leads to the office has 10 recessed lights, currently there are only 2 of them that are on.

So here I am, at work, down a dimly lit hallway, on an empty floor with a possible black mold outbreak. some other time I’ll have to describe my “office”.