i made my first sale today--on a big-ass, 15-passenger highway cruising beast. yay for me. i've had my doubts about my abilities and desire to do this job, but now, with one sale under my belt, and another pending, well...maybe this gig will work. i'll have to give it more time before i form an opinion.

after crashing here for 3 weeks, mark has headed to boston. it's been an eventful three weeks. with his help, i got a new computer. i got all of my old files transferred onto it from the old one (which was a major concern and stumbling block for me.) all of my bootlegged songs and the new (read: legal) downloads are all conveniently located in iTunes. i had some company in my quiet little pad for once. i had a wingman at the bars. i was a wingman at the bars. my kitchen has been consistently clean. and i have been shown that tostitos salsa is not necessarily the best salsa out there. it's been an experience.

my only complaint--while i was at work, mark changed the background on the new computer from Triumph to Queer Eye wallpaper--bastard. i like Queer Eye, but i sure as hell don't need it on my desktop.

somethin' you didn't know:

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!" Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative F, and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird." And yew thought yew knew everything.