Hi. I just wanted to post a link to my friend Doug’s weblog thingamajiggy. I used to work with Doug at this company called “Catalyst Solutions” in Baltimore, which is a pretty retarded name for a company, and in a lot of ways, fittingly so. But I’m not here to complain about past jobs, I’m here to post a link to Doug’s “blog” as it were. Doug tells me that, lately, he has gotten in Dire Straits in a very serious way. He says that he made a mix cd, only to find out later, that it matched, almost track for track, their “Best of” album at stores. Needless to say, we were all very excited. Hehe.

Doug is writing a novel, in which, he told me recently that I may be making an appearance as a plastic toy lizard in a bedroom who “tells the main character things that he knows are true, but can’t believe them yet.” And I thought that was just super.

There is this one entry in the blog that has a line that I would have kill to have written, but lucky for him, was written in a dream of his. It is:

do you ever get tired of advertising your affection?

Pure gold, that line. Pure gold.

Oh, I also found our recently that the name Douglas is Gaelic or something for “Flowing from the dark river” which I think is one of the coolest name meanings I have ever heard. Incidentally, I wrote to Doug about this, but his lack of response seems to indicate that he didn’t share my enthusiasm.