I only had two extra days off. Coming back to work isn't supposed to feel this draining.

Monday morning recap:

• Work: sucks. Ugh. Double ugh.

• Gregarius [sic]: cool. Now all I need is to find/build a notifier for my toolbar and it will be nearly perfect.

• John McCain: sucks. I'm pretty anti-conservative. I'm a left-leaning pinko liberal. But I'm not a big fan of bashing Republicans just because they're Republicans. (I mean, why bother? They give me so many real reasons to bash them.) John McCain is often the guy I hold up as an example of a Republican that doesn't completely suck. Or at least he used to be, before he started making kissy faces at Jerry Falwell. So apparently he's thinking about the big chair and starting his pandering a bit early.

• Arctic Monkeys: tentatively cool. I'm going to have to listen to their album Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I Am Not a few more times, but so far I like it.

• Rob Zombie: used to be cool. I'll tell you later after I've listened to Educated Horses if he's still cool.

• California: sucks. Sometimes California will try to swallow entire communities.