Maybe my gut feeling that Huntsville has become more violent as churches and plastic people have multiplied over the years is correct. Right across the street from the Huntsville Hospital building I work in is the Huntsville Hospital Emergency Room. In fact I can see it easily from the window when I look out. Yesterday around when I was leaving a man showed up and brandished a gun in the lobby. (Wes wrote about the story from a more personal angle. I'm sorry Wes.) Today when I was over there a mental patient escaped from the armed guard watching him. Last night some violent, bad stuff happened to a friend which is why I was at the ER today. Guess I better get busy making things better again.

Second day at work was an improvement over the first. I actually successfully debugged something hard. Amusingly the guy next to me was friends with during high school and the girl on the other side of me dated a friend of mine from the Huntsville BBS scene (theoretically I should have met her then), is now dating a UAH professor that I knew and is friends with another guy I know now. I suppose if I talked enough to everyone around me I could find other people to connect to them from.