Has anybody ever tried to measure the percentage of the human brain devoted to the grounding problem? That might give us some idea of how hard it actually is. A quick Google search turns up nothing, but I have a whole bunch of cognitive science people on my flist.
This year, I believe that I shall not be going to the gen-cons. Had I made better choices a year ago I would be, but as it stands I shall not. Aside from that? Things're pretty good, actually.
I have absolutely no idea how that interview for the UITS consultant/tech support position went. I answered all but two of the questions correctly (I think), but I did a lot of "umm"-ing before I got into the "Let's pretend that I'm a caller into UITS, now go and troubleshoot my problem" part of the interview. So, who knows.