Bullet points. How utilitarian - yet how useful. Yet my head is a sack of cardboard as I got in form work at eight and worst of all...I have somehow managed to have a purposeful Friday. Don't get me wrong - I like what I get to do - useful and interesting. But I also have great respect and need to keep up my cred with my own 17 year old self. I can't sleep in now, Mom hasn't made breakfast or anything and someone else doesn't pay the bills...but it sure was good to be able to moan with absolutely nothing to moan about.
And I just figured out that I should be wearing red around here today. So I am.
- Update: is Bush giving himself a pre-emptory pardon? Consider that as you also listen to King Crimson. Woot!
- Big day tomorrow. We head to Syracuse for the Wyoming game, lunch at the Dino...woot.
- Sometimes I thing the worst thing that George W. Bush ever faced was West
Wing in that it presented presidency as a lucid coherent thing. Apparently,
sometimes
it is not:
The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author. The book describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.
You can check the archives yourself as I know I gave urgent warning before that. - TV so far? I like The Unit even if it is second season - it's like what you thought was happening when you played "best fall". I found last night's Grey's Anatomy and ER back to back overly grim. Shark is not there despite James Woods. I have watched no new sit-coms. I do not care about Survivor. I already miss baseball.
- While we are at it, consider
this:
Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year. Currently, three journalists for a small newspaper in southeastern Iraq are being tried here for articles last year that accused a provincial governor, local judges and police officials of corruption. The journalists are accused of violating Paragraph 226 of the penal code, which makes anyone who “publicly insults” the government or public officials subject to up to seven years in prison.
It's all just so great. Just great. - Enough! I know for certain there is one person that GWB is doing a better job that and it is me. Speaking of me, what fresh hell is it that I have found myself in that the Jays are now maybe going to beat out the Sox for second place, this last weekend of the season? And goody - Clement might be out for all of 2007.
- Only two days left in A Good Beer Blog's contest with real prizes. Real. Prizes.
- Rats! I was going to announce my deal with Microsoft today.
- One last thing. Still no frost here in Easlakia. Next year will be the first since 2002 that I will garden and I have big plans - ripping out all the junipers and putting in figs, peaches and blackberries. Rhubarb. It's been five years since I was the overlord of a rhubarb patch. How weird is that? I caught myself looking at the Chiltern's catalogue already. Cactus seeds. Australian Honeysuckle Tree seeds. Woot.
Comments
cm - September 29, 2006 8:33 am
Nice to know I'm not the only one putting in crazy hours right now. Enjoy the game. And the bbq.
gr - September 29, 2006 8:39 am
Rats. cm wins the prize this week. I'm a little slow off the mark. Now I can read what Alan wrote.
Gordo - September 29, 2006 9:50 am
TV: I really, really like Kidnapped. It's very smart, and does a great job os winding up the tension. I was having some trouble dealing with the obvious aging of my China Beach lover interest, Dana Delaney, but felt much better when I discovered that she's actually 51. Yow.
Frost: It's forecast for tonight, Al. Low of 2C and patchy frost.
Alan - September 29, 2006 10:06 am
How was the grape crop?
Paul - September 29, 2006 10:09 am
It's sad that Iraq is reverting back to the types of laws so typical in despotic states around the world. At least their not going so far as to try and exempt themselves from the Geneva Convention. That would be really outrageous.
Gordo - September 29, 2006 10:16 am
The raccoons loved the grapes. I advertently chose the wrong weekend to head to the cottage and came home to find the vines stripped clean and dropped/smashed everywhere. The crop was looking quite good, too. The massive haircut I gave the vines in teh spring really stimulated the growth. sigh
Alan - September 29, 2006 10:33 am
Hack them again and then get bird netting. You can cover the grage vines and tie them underneath. That saves about 90% that they cannot reach. I used to cover all the berry bushes. You get to meet some birds close up too.
Alan - September 29, 2006 11:28 am
I now subscribe to the email version of <i>The Daily Orange</i> for this sort of stuff.
Gordo - September 29, 2006 11:44 am
Sheesh, I was sur eyou were telling me to hack up the raccons. LOL. They would make nice hats, though. I may re-locate the little beggars in the spring.
gr - September 29, 2006 12:15 pm
If T-bo was around he could add to these stories, but let me tell you what my Pops says about Syracuse. Colgate and Syracuse had a rivalry for many decades, ending in the last 20 years or so when Syracuse went really big-time with football. Colgate is just too small, and the NCAA instituted the I-AA for programs their size, making I-A for the big boys. Colgate's main rivals had been Syracuse, Cornell and Brown, with Bucknell thrown in for good measure. Cornell and Brown are now more tied to the Ivy League, leaving just Bucknell for them to get over-excited about.
BUT, in my father's day, 50 plus years ago, Orange week was a big deal. The freshmen were all assigned to overnight bonfires to guard the campus from Syracuse marauders. (I asked my dad about his grades, and apparently they weren't too good, thanks to these bonfires and such) The Orange did not succeed in doing much, but according to my dad, Colgate was fierce. Each fraternity joyrided up and kidnapped Syracuse men. A 'C' was shaved into their hair, and they were forced to wait tables for the week. Syracuse did the same, which is why the freshmen did guard duty, to keep the kidnappers off campus, because Syracuse would shave an 'S' on the head of captives, etc. My father also relates the story of how he was called into the dean (shades of Animal House and Dean Wormer) because Syracuse's president had called to say that their statue of the Saltine Warrior had been painted Maroon head to toe. Despite the maroon paint on the hands of my father and other conspirators, the dean found no reason to suspect they had done any painting......
My dad sits around with other old duffers decrying the lack of school spirit these days. I would say that it was called breaking the law, but....