Harvard is going through a big HR database change. It is extremely involved and effects everybody. There is alot of training of Harvard 16,000 employees on how to use the new system. They have classes, clinics, website simulations, and guided tutorials all the time. You can learn any way you need to and in your schedule. Yet there are people that are being lazy about it. Whining and begging other people to learn it and show it to them. Nice, responsible people are caving in to these selfish, self-serving whiners and are getting frustrated and upset.

Now this is not a new thing and happens to alot of people all the time. I know plenty of situations where my friends and myself were used or taken advantage of. Why do nice people cave to these other type of people time after time? Why don't we learn our lessons? Or do we and are powers of kindness and nobilty just overcome our own selfishness?

When it rains, it pours.

Even when you have your friends in your life you still get lonely for the ones who aren't. Memories always seem to come in floods that make you nostalgic for the times you had, and wish were still here. Not to say that my friends now aren't any better or worse then my friends past. Just different.

"If I don't watch it now, it'll be new to me in syndication." -- My friend, Shaw

It's funny how every Labor Day the streets of Allston, Brighton, Cambridge and Somerville all turn into a giant swapmeet. Moving day, as it is referred to, is the day furniture piles up on the street. People come and take what they need and leave out what they don't so someone else can grab it. It is a pretty cool phenomena that happens about twice a year in this grand city of mine.

Before I left for Pennslyvania I drove to work at University Hall at about 5:30 AM. I have never seen Harvard Square from this early in the morning. It was so quiet and still. Nothing was moving. It was a giant socialist beast that was asleep. I went to UHall and moved an assload of computers out of the basement to the yard to get picked up later that day. I left at around 6:15 AM. By then the beast ws starting to wake, commerce was rising with the sun. Metal shutters were opening and people were milling about. It was pretty intriuging how in that half an hour how fast the square awoke.

Interesting License Plate I saw on my way to Pennslyvania this weekend: "JKLMN"