ronnie ekelund, jeff agoos, and brian mullan have reupped with the quakes. yay! mullan became one of my favorites last season, behind the beast (troy dayak) and todd dunivant. i also really like eddie robinson (yes, i have a thing for defenders, why do you ask?). it looks like we'll have most of the team back... lagos is gone, and i'm guessing that faria and one of the back-up 'keepers will be gone before season's start, but other than that we pretty much have our starters returning. but i do somewhat question the retainment of ian russell, chris roner, and craig waibel, especially since we picked up a great defender in the draft and some of our injured wingers/forwards will be back.

do i have a familiar-looking face? people always seem to come up to me or react to me as though they know me. i try to have a pleasant demeanor with people, so maybe they remember me because i'm nice, but it seems like people always act like they know me. in several of the eateries around here, the regular cashiers (or whatever workers happen to have helped me) greet me warmly and notice how long it's been since the last time i was in, etc. it's also not like i go to the same places all the time (with the exception of the deli across the street, which is my default too-lazy-to-go-farther-away lunch place), and these places see lots of people every day. i also have noticed that they don't react that way to everyone... why is that? i'm not complaining, because it usually means that people are nice to me, but it's strange because it happens a lot. i also get stopped a lot to get asked for directions, or for help in a store, or things like that. i guess i just look approachable, which is mostly a good thing-- but then how come i don't have more dates?!

more times than i can recall, too, people think i'm someone else because i look like someone they know. one time in an elevator (in some random building where i was having a meeting), this woman addressed me as amanda and started talking to me as though i was this aforementioned amanda. how odd when you have to break in and tell someone that you're not who they think you are. "are you sure you're not amanda? you look like her." yep, pretty sure, but thanks for checking. am i so nondescript that i get mistaken for other people? how depressing... especially when one of the things i like most about myself is my uniqueness... *sigh*

fighting fires yet again at good ol' nfwf... still some server and printer issues, as well as a rush order for sage grouse reporting.