So I went home to visit my family this past weekend, which is why there has been a conspicuous lack of posting lately. It’s good and bad - you like seeing them again, but after awhile they start to get on your nerves. It looks like I’m going to be leaving VA for good too. As much as I enjoy my job, and most of the people I work with, the things I gave up don’t meet with what I’m getting. I’m kind of sad to go though. The last thing I thought I’d be doing at 26 is being out of work and living at home again. Kind of depressing actually.

Not actually the point of the post though. Going between VA and MA I realized just how stupid some people are. Some people just seem to think that the highways are their own personal speedway. And I’m not talking about the people who are over the speed limit - as most of us usually are - but those that just drive recklessly. It’s not even the fact that you could hurt yourself, but more importantly, that you could hurt me. I’m talking about the people that like to pass on the right, cutting in between you, in the left lane, and the car in front of them, in the right lane, through a space slightly larger then a car length. And of course, always at excessive speeds. Or the weavers - the ones moving in and out of traffic like they’re James Bond. You’re not so important that if you’re 5 minutes late the world will end.

Another set of people that annoy me are those people that will pass you, then cut in front of you - always by only a car length or two - and promptly proceed to slow down. Always to slower then you are going. So then you pass them to get back to your speed - and they repeat this. I’ve never wanted to hurt someone so bad in my life. It is becoming obvious to me, the older I get, that nature might have it right in “weeding the herd” a bit. I’m not much for the death penalty, or killing in general, but when someone does this to me I will admit that I’ve reconsidered my position. Unfortunately, “being stupendously ignorant” is not a capital crime.

Random Tidbit: Apparently Opera has taken the lead with regards to AJAX. I have been working more and more with Opera at work and, especially after this latest release, I have to say I’m very impressed. It’s faster then Mozilla, just as standards compliant and has many of the extensions I like from Mozilla built in. It’s an awesome product for a web designer to use for testing too. I keep saying it, I wish Microsoft would just cough up some of those billions and buy it to replace IE. They wouldn’t want to make our life easier though.