Long Slow Day

This morning, as I usually do, I stopped in at a nearby convenience store before work.
When I got there, the song “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac was playing on the in-store (and out-store – music is piped to the gas pumps) sound system.
As I opened the door, I heard Stevie Knicks warbling, “Say women they will come and they will go,” to which, internally, I responded, “In my case, mostly they’ll go.”
It’s already been a long, slow day and there are still nine hours to go, so that doesn’t bode well for today or the rest of the weekend.
Given his ridiculously low approval rating (36%), I can’t help but wonder when Bush will give a “You guys suck” speech to the American people. After all, when we don’t just blindly approve of everything our President does, the terrorists win.
Scott is in training today, so it’s just Brian and me at work (Alone at last!).
Of course, it’s not like we’re swamped with work as a result of being short one person as things have been incredibly, mind-numbingly slow of late.
In addition to making the days go by extremely slowly, the slowness is rather troubling, because it’s been, as Brian put it, layoff slow.
Still, the biggest concern is the boredom, the sheer, painful, soul-shattering boredom.
One major problem is that, really, all I have to do all day is surf the Internet, and the thing is, the Internet is boring.
There are a handful of sites (mostly blogs) that I go to on a regular basis, but they don’t update often enough to keep me entertained, and, quite frankly, I’m sick of trying to find new sites to check out. I’ve basically been done with the Internet since 2000. The novelty wore off long before that, but it was in 2000, in a similarly boring job with a high-speed connection, that I got to the point of saturation.
Sure, I still use it all the time, and I can’t really imagine living without it, but when it comes to spending twelve and a half hours trying to find stuff to pass the time on it, the Internet blows.
I guess I need to find something new out there because I just can’t take another Slashdot thread full of pointlessly angry comments from self-righteous nerds who think that their opinions actually matter to anyone (Yes, I know that sounds like a description of Threshold, but the major difference is that I realize that my opinion doesn’t matter to anyone).
But at the same time, as mentioned, I’m tired of looking for new things.
Of course, every so often the Internet does deliver up a gem, like this one.
So I guess it’s not all bad.