Bull Moose Strikes Back

Two. More. Nights. Of. Wedding. Photos.
Of course, she’s better than the guy in front of her playing solitaire.

I’m going to need to move.

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This story broke while I was on my Red State Retreat, so it slipped my mind to say anything about it, but it is pretty funny how beside themselves some Seattlites are that they weren’t higher on the list.
They do their best, returning Baghdad Jim to congress every year and slapping as many Nader stickers as they can find on their car, but the fact is there are many liberal posers in this town. They’ll talk the talk, but when the city when Tent City wants to move into their neighborhood the safety of their family and value of their home in the end reigns supreme over their idealism – like it should.

I’m also always asked in rebuttal to my pissing on Seattle, “How come liberal places are the best places to live?”
As well as my usual retort that the area is nice to live in despite of, not because of, Seattle (other than the pro sports) I can add that in fact that’s not true.
Look at the top 10 on the list. The top 10 are two lefty college towns, seven ghettos (Though DC is much better than it was) and San Fran.

I was also comforted to see Madison way down at 34 – closer to Pasadena than San Fran. I always thought when I lived there that “Liberal” Madison was always a bit of a self perpetuating act. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not Orange County but it surely isn’t the “Berkeley of the Midwest” like former mayor and terrorist Paul Soglin would want us to think. Well, maybe about 20 square blocks of it is.
But, Republican Scott Klug could have been Madison’s “Congressman for Life” a la Norm Dicks if he had wanted to be.

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If you are too stupid to know that it isn’t the gas station that is causing gas prices to be high to the point where you are verbally or physically attacking gas station workers then you are too stupid to drive. Please surrender your driver’s license.
You know how I deal with the higher gas prices? I pay the extra money without bitching about it. Try it, you’ll feel better. (Of course, this is not to say there shouldn’t be someone trying to work on the problems that are jacking up prices.)
On a related note there was a letter to the editor in one of the newspapers I read, I can’t find it now, suggesting that Hummers would become garden planters and other decorative items because gas is up 70 cents a gallon from last year. Yeah, that’s right, there are lots of people who can afford $60,000 cars, but not an extra $20 a tank to fill them up.

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Look at the picture here of the University of Washington’s LL.M. in intellectual property class of 2005.
Diversity at it’s finest.
I think they need to do what University of Wisconsin did a few years ago when they photoshopped in some black and asian guys into the crowd at Camp Randall.

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For the last three nights of class, the woman in front of me has spent the entire class looking at her wedding photos on the computer.
$70 an hour, lady.
I wish someone would walk up to me and say, “Here’s $70 to talk for an hour, now I’m going to go over here and not listen to you.”

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TiVo allowed me to watch the National Geographic channel’s Inside 9/11 and I was very impressed.

I thought I had heard everything there was to know about 9/11 after all these years, but the detail they went into for a TV show was phenomenal. It was also even handed, but not afraid to call Clinton’s cancellation of a strike that could’ve killed Bin Laden a mistake or to call Bin Laden and al Quaeda what they are: fanatic Islamic Arab terrorists.

I think maybe all Americans should sit down and watch this again. The most famous media presentation of recent years with “9/11″ in it’s title deliberately leaves out the horror of 9/11, and while we should move on, it is a mistake to forget the horrors of that day and what could happen again if we are soft on terrorists and the regimes that lend them support. I’m talking to not only the Cindy Sheehan hangers-on, but also to those in the Bush administration that don’t seem to care about one unsecured border with a third world country and another with a country that will let in anyone.

I’m sure it will be re-run so be sure to catch it. As far as TV goes, it is infinitely better than 8 episodes of “Will and Grace.”

Oh, and if you can watch this program and still support the Blame America First Moral Equivalency Memorial at Ground Zero, then you have had the whole pitcher of Kool-Aid.

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The criminal law grade finally posted and I got a B.
It was kind of weird to see it on the screen because I had spent so much time hoping for the best case scenario of a B and bracing for the worst case scenario of a C that when it was in between I wasn’t sure how to process it. Should I be happy? Unhappy? Indifferent?
My feeling is that I guess a B the first time out isn’t so bad, especially since I had no idea what I had walking out the door of the exam. I still think the curve must be so tight that a few points either way probably would mean the difference up or down a grade. I look forward to seeing the exam to see where I lost points.

But I think I’ve found what the hardest part of school is going to be for me as a part-time student working full-time.: Finding the “tipping point” on the scale of diminishing returns. If I put in say, 20 more hours over the 6 weeks of class, perhaps I would’ve gotten an A, but at what cost to me? And my wife and daughter? I’m already keenly aware that I’m imposing sacrifices on my daughter that her eventual brothers and/or sisters won’t have to make (assuming lack of time with me is a sacrifice) but will reap the benefit from. I also know that I need to keep up some form of leisure and exercise activities or there won’t be much of me left to practice law anyway.

I guess I just have to do what feels right. Grades are important, but I think my main selling point will be my experience in the biotech world. I’m hoping that a longer term will help me pace myself a little better, even though it there are more classes. One important lesson I learned was to start the outline sooner. Especially in a short term like this class was.

There certainly is no shortage of things for me to keep in mind as I begin to prepare my strategy for the next set of exams in December.

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My wife and I, both being alumni of the University of Wisconsin, thought it would be fun to go to the Rain City Badgers (the Seattle Wisconsin alumni group) summer brat and beer picnic. So we put on some of our Badgerware, dressed the baby up in one of her Badger outfits and drove over to Issaquah, paid our 12 bucks, had some brats and beer, and then found out when I went for seconds that they had ran out of brats! Shortly thereafter they ran out of beer. Beer which was not Wisconsin beer, but crappy Seattle microbrews to start with.

I’m not sure what the deal is, but these people should know that when you promise someone from Wisconsin all the brats he can eat, he wants all the brats he can eat. Maybe living in Seattle for to long has made Bucky’s alumni soft in that way.

Please, spare me from the fate of underestimating how many brats and beer one needs to throw a proper party!

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It’s back to school time! For me as well as all the kiddies.
After my two-and-a-half week break from class it’s back at it. This time it’s the long haul. Time to put my head down and aim for Christmas.
For evening sttudents like me, fall semester is the entire Contracts class and the first half of Civil Procedure and Legal Writing I. Then spring semester will be the second half of those classes and the entire Property class. Then Torts will be done next summer and that will complete the first year.

Criminal grades still haven’t been posted, even though they promised them Friday. Hopefully they’ll be out this afternoon. I’d like to close out summer classes before the new semester starts.

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Read this and second everything Kim had to say for me.

Speaking of pussies, what’s going on with men on the East Coast?
I was in an internet argument with a couple of guys from NY/NJ over something trivial- a geocache I placed (it’s actually a virtual) not like we were at a Constitutional Convention – that he didn’t like. He tried to get a bandwagon going, but he got shot down and most people sided with me. Fine. That was a couple months ago. Then he keeps bringing it up on his blog.

During the entire exchange I flip him and his buddy a little crap – you know how guys will talk smack over recreational things. Questioning his mental state, income level, educational level, stuff like that. Again, this wasn’t a debate over anything serious, rather over what I do as fun. And their response is to scream “Ad hominem attack!” and then respond with their own ad hominem attacks to which they are oblivious. All I can think is that is the internet equivalent to the “I’m going to call my lawyer!” cry when a guy picks a fight he has no intention of executing.

See, they thought I was trying to attack their claim by attacking them, when I really was just attacking them as a form of recreation.

My mistake that thinking anyone in the northeast was a man with a sense of humor or perspective anymore. Uh.. anyone presently reading in the northeast excluded, of course. Of course, I should realize that the guys are probably Yankees fans. The same Yankee fans that paraded Jeffery Maier as a hero. (I don’t know that they are pro-Maier Yankee fans for sure, so don’t accuse me of making an ad hominem attack.)

You can read the exchange here if you want, but it’s really pretty inane, especially if you aren’t a geocacher.

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I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve reached the point where I expect incompetence and/or indifference from service workers.

A couple weeks ago my wife and I went to the store of our national cellular provider to upgrade our cell phones. Before we walked in I told her, “OK, now prepare for the total incompetence of the workers here.”
She asked if we should change providers if these guys were so bad. No, everyone else probably is just as incompetent and we have a credit here.
Well, they sure didn’t let us down. After standing around for an hour waiting for someone to help us, we finally got a lady who slowly went about activating the phones we picked out, overcharged us, had to figure out how to refund our money, and got us out the door in just two short hours. The only thing she did well was give us the hard sell on extended life batteries and other accessories. (Why is it after they’ve sold you on how great the phone that costs just a little more is, they proceed to tell you how crappy it is without all the add-ons? That hardly inspires confidence.)

I dread having to go to a fast food restaurant when high school kids aren’t able to work. Invariably something will happen like I’ll end up with five large chocolate shakes when I ordered two small strawberry shakes and then the circus of trying to change the order amount starts. That’s if I get served at all. Recently at a fast food place in an airport no less I watched as eight, count ‘em eight, employees messed around as a huge line grew until the manager came out and scolded them. Of course, it’s the manager’s fault too. When I was a 20 and supervising at a campus eatery, I knew how to handle employees during busy times better. I don’t mind lines if everyone is doing their best to get people served efficiently.

I am confined to one particular section in two particular restaurants near work, because there are only two waitresses that will refill my drink reasonably fast and often enough. So these waitresses tend to get a 20% tip from me because they are mountains of “ordinary” which rises above the valley of “crappy” around them.
And don’t get me started on having to deal with government bureaucracies. I needed clarification on some crappy instructions on their website and their answer was always a push-off to the another guy, often the same guy who had just sent me to him. I was disheartened to learn that this type of action is actively encouraged. My brother worked for a government agency for a while and got very frustrated for getting in trouble for getting work done faster than expected. So he slowed down and did other things on the job rather than get hounded for screwing up the budget by coming in under the allotted time.

And I don’t think I’m being too hard on them. I remember what it was like to work in food service and in the lumberyard helping customers find lumber. I’m not the guy who insists the lumberyard man making $5.25 an hour (wow, did I ever work for that little money?) pick through an entire stack of 2×4s to find the perfect two that he bought at a discount. I’m not the woman yelling at the guy at the counter like it’s the end of the world because the people in back put pepperoni on the little pizza when she asked for sausage. I can accept occasional mistakes, especially if they are fixed with a minimum of fuss. What I don’t like is being accused by the waiter of ordering incorrectly, or getting a snotty remark or look when I point out a mistake.

In short, I don’t like the fact that so many people seem not to give a crap about the way they do the job they are paid to do. So what if it’s minimum wage? If you do it with a little pride and effort chances are you won’t be making minimum wage long either where you are or somewhere else.

So, what the hell does this have to do with the War in Iraq?

I’ve found it curious that the polls on support of the war in Iraq would drop now. The media has stepped up it’s negative coverage because they feel the good ol’ days of crippling America in Vietnam slipping away forever with the advent of the internet and the their buddies in the left even collaborated in bringing us Cindy Sheehan ™, but that didn’t seem enough.

The rate of casualties hasn’t jumped. Iraq has had an election and is working on a constitution. The president that told us the US will leave when the job is done and done right and not a second sooner was re-elected.

But standing there in the cell phone store it hit me: A large number of people in this country have no idea what makes a job well done.
I mean come on; this war has already taken up the last season of “Sex in the City” and the first season of “Desperate Housewives!” When will it end!
Let’s leave so we don’t have to hear about anymore nasty car bombings. So the Iraqis are hung out to dry and may end up being ruled by a very small minority of terrorists from the minority of Sunnis? Big deal. I bet some of those soldiers don’t feel like being there. I won’t ask them, though. When I don’t want to bus tables anymore I just wander around with a rag and everything turns out OK.

Everybody understands the sacrifice and work in the movie friendly part of war. Tanks rolling through the desert, gunfights, and pulling deposed dictators out of spider-holes. Patrolling neighborhoods to keep the country safe as possible and training security forces while a constitution is worked out all the while suffering casualties is not so glorious, but it is just as important. It is part of the complete job and it must be done. As I learned at that lumberyard a dozen or so years ago, driving the forklift is fun, but then you have to sort the boards.

Fortunately the President and a large portion of his base still recognize that. More importantly I bet most of the soldiers there doing the work recognize it and take pride in their work.

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So I have the last blog to chime in on Cindy Sheehan.
Here’s what I think: Instead of doing what she’s doing, she should go to where her son is buried, pull down her pants, squat over his grave and take a massive crap. That way we could skip her doing it figuratively. Seriously. Her husband knows it, that’s why he’s divorcing her.

It’s pretty clear her son thought he was doing something worthwhile. He voluntarily enlisted. He voluntarily re-enlisted. He volunteered for the mission that he was killed on. To me that hardly seems like someone who did not want to be doing what he was doing.

I do feel a little sorry for Cindy Sheehan, not only because she lost her son, but because she’s lost her mind. Have you seen the interviews of her? It’s like the Manchurian Candidate – pick your version – that same vacant, glazed over look. The scary part is it is right out there for everyone to see. Her story changed radically about her meeting with Bush, and the media and the left expect us to ignore it.

Right Wing News has put together a handy list of quotes from this loon and her satellite loons (See also here). Here is the money quote from her own lips:

“My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11…”

There it is! It’s all about the JOOOOOZZ! (Neo-con is also lefty code word for “Jew”.) If you’ll look at the RWN piece, you’ll see the next quote is Klansman David Duke agreeing with her. Good ol’ anti-Semitism, the place where the extreme left and extreme right meet for happy hour. (Isn’t it funny how the far left has more in common with Hitler than Bush?)

Yeah, I know, what kind of bastard kicks a grieving mother while he’s down? A bastard who thinks that over a year is more than enough grieving time for a son. She should either move on with her life or come clean to us and to herself about the fact that she’s standing on the back of her son’s corpse to push the racist, left wing agenda of her handlers.

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Wow. I know people are reading this blog, and I know that a small percentage of blog readers comment, but I thought the TV shows thing would inflame some passion.

Anyway, just back from my Red State Retreat, so I’ll have some to say about that later on, including the Worst Picture Ever.

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Buzzmachine and RWN are picking their favorite TV shows this morning, so who am I to reisist the trend set by the big boys of blogging?
So, excluding sporting events, here are mine:

Honorable Mentions:

Shows Fox killed too soon:”Undeclared,” “Greg the Bunny” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe” all debuted in the same year and it looked like Fox had me locked up for viewership for years to come. But, they also all were canceled all in the same year. I didn’t discover “Firefly” until it debuted on DVD and a friend bugged me to watch it. Another casualty of Fox’s itchy trigger finger, I describe it as “Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon before he meets Luke with a crew with Enterprise-like diversity.” Sounds derivative, but there was a lot of originality in the series, too.
Mr. Show with Bob and DavidThe most original, funniest sketch comedy in years, it mocked the fashionable detached irony style of comedy of the ’90’s with detached irony.
Adult Swim Shows “Sealab 2021″ and “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” are proof that hallucinogenic drugs aren’t all bad if they’re given to the right people.

Early Years #1: Sesame Street – circa 1980 It’s hard to think of a TV show that has had a bigger effect on my life. It taught me everything from how to count to what a Puerto Rican looks like. I still bust into the “Ladybug Picnic” song once in awhile. When I tune into it now I’m horrified by the CGI and political correctness. How long before Burt and Ernie go to Boston to tie the knot.

10.5: Malcolm in the Middle This show makes the list mostly because it reminds me of my childhood: Boys always looking to get into trouble. It doesn’t hurt that Frankie Muniz physically resembles my brother at the same age.
It’s faded a bit in the last few years, but in general it has been smartly written over it’s run.

10: King of the Hill King of the Hill got off to a slow start but has developed into a great paody of both red staters and the perceptions of red staters by blue state city dwellers, the neighbor Khan showing the contempt a New Yorker would have for the “hillbillies”.

9: Family Ties Alex P. Keaton was the first conservative character that I recall that wasn’t someone to be mocked or looked down upon like Archie Bunker. The family dynamic between Alex and his hippie parents – love despite the hatred of the other’s politics – would probably be considered too cheesy in these days of TV families that can’t stand each other, but Family Ties stands out in my memory as an excellent show. I even suggested that my brother be named after Alex P. Keaton when he was born in 1986, which he was.

8: The Sopranos I’ve always liked James Gandolfini as an actor, probably since he’s physically about my size. The fact that HBO built a smartly written show around an at the time third string actor who doesn’t exactly rival Matt LeBlanc in the good looking Italian genus because he was right for the part was a gamble that certainly paid off. I wish the seasons would be a little quicker in coming, but they have always been worth the wait.

7: Family Guy Seth McFarland could have easily just made this a Simpsons clone, but the farcical asides and say anything abandon of the show sets it apart. I also like how it assumes you are a fan of the show. If you don’t understand why Peter is fighting a giant chicken out of the blue, it’s not going to explain it to you. Plus, how many other shows can resurrect themselves from the dead?

6: Star Trek TNG The original Star Trek is not on this list because I have never made a point to watch it. I’ll look at it if it’s on, but I’m still not sure if I’ve seen them all. The original also has some very bad episodes (Nazi planet, anyone?). TNG, however, for all of it’s faults was very consistent over it’s run. Every time it started to fall in to a preachy stretch Q or the Borg would show up. Data remains one of my favorite TV characters of all time.

5: The Cosby Show I’m going to try to model aspects of my fatherhood after Cliff Huxtable.
I hope someday my daughter allows me to drop this line on her: “You’re mother and I are rich. You have nothing.”
Or a son gives me the chance to explain what his life will be like if he quits school with Monopoly money.

4: NYPD Blue This show got soft in the middle but the first few seasons and the last season and a half was the finest drama on TV. I never missed a first run episode of this show for a reason. It was clever writing that turned the series into an arc about Andy Sipowitz’s redemption after the first few cast changes.

3: Futurama It’s a shame that Futurama never got a send off because it was never really canceled, it just drifted off into the ether, a casualty of Fox’s crappy scheduling. Futurama certainly had fewer weak episodes than The Simpsons has had. The show maintained the stick-it-to-everyone mentality consistently. In fact, their favorite targets seemed to be Nixon and his arch-rivals, hippies. (Hippie: “You can’t ‘own’ land, man!” Bender: “You can if you have a job!”)

2: South Park This is the rare show that has been getting better as it gets on in years. I’ll take last season with it’s “Die Hippe, Die,” “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina,” and “The Losing Edge” over any early season. Parker and Stone have developed their knack for picking up on hypocrisy and exploding it. (Why hate Wal-Mart and Starbucks because they are successful when every ma and pa shop wants to be Wal-Mart and Starbucks?)

1: The Simpsons While on a show-for-show basis it might not be as good as some of these, but entering season 17, they have delivered the goods in greater quantity than any of these shows. They have continued to spread their targets around, which is important for a show to remain credible. It’s also amazing how much emotional resonance has been built into a cartoon family. Think about it: Marge and Homer have one of the more successful marriages on TV: They are supportive of each other, they’re not always bickering, they work their way through problems, and while they’ve come close, they’ve never cheated on each other.
Plus The Simpsons is home to the funniest character in TV history on a laugh per screen time basis: Hans Moleman.

Notably Absent: I always watched “Seinfeld” when it was on first run, but now when I watch it in syndication I wonder why I was laughing at those self-involved jerks. Something has changed enough for it to be off the list.

Will be on the list after another strong season:“Arrested Development”

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The promised whiny letter about Seafair:

Blue Angels a huge waste of taxpayer money
I have lived in Seattle for three years now. I’m one of those you’ve been writing about who doesn’t quite “get” Seafair. I agree with those who are bothered by the Blue Angels. Not only do they bring tremendous air and noise pollution, they represent a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.

It galls me that hardworking Americans are forced to pay ridiculous amounts of taxes, only to watch helplessly as government at all levels mismanages and wastes our tax dollars. The armed forces are notorious wasters of taxpayer money, and things like the Blue Angels are obvious examples of waste.

Think about what better use could be made of the millions of dollars it costs government to buy and maintain these jets (and fuel them with expensive precious aviation fuel). It’s our money that is being frittered away so these guys can fly around doing stunts, bringing our city noise and air pollution, exposing the public to potential deadly consequences of a midair mishap — not even doing activities that defend our country.

Tom Whang
Seattle

Wouldn’t be summer without it!
I always love when lefty Seattlites pretend to care about overtaxation. It’s so cute!

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One of the local radio stations recaps the music and events of a different year every morning. This morning it was 2000.
When they inevitably got to the Florida mess, one of the long hairs at work yelled “That still makes me mad.”
I agree. It still makes me mad how Gore almost stole that election and convinced a fair chunk of people that he was the victim and not the perpetrator that he was.
Thank goodness James Baker could lawyer circles around Warren Christopher.

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On Friday I was at a dinner for one of my wife’s organizations. It was kind of a big deal for Bremerton, and a lot of the big wigs of the area were there – Congressman Dicks, the mayor, a handful of admirals and captains from the nearby Navy installations – including the commander of the surface fleet who gave the keynote talk, and some of the community leader businessmen. Not like meeting with the Pope or something, but kind of a gathering of note for Bremerton.
After the dinner was over my wife and a couple of other folks from her organization were lobbying the congressman I kind of wandered around the new conference center where the dinner was held. Sitting out in the lobby I ran into the husband of the secretary of the organization who I had met a time or two and is a nice guy.
We started talking about the fountain outside and wondered at all the kids loving it. In looking to continue the conversation I said, “The guy who designed that is the guy who designed the Bellagio’s fountain.”
As I said that a younger, unaccompanied guy was walking out and took a second from his cell phone conversation to say, “Uh! I hate to break it to you, but that has nothing on the Bellagio’s fountain.”
Well, of course it doesn’t. The budgets were a little different.
I said, “That’s not what I said, I said the same guy designed it.”
“Well good for him, but that fountain is nothing like the Bellagio’s!” he said as he walked out.

Now usually acting that condescending to me will earn you a quick lesson in manners, but I was just so dumbfounded I couldn’t say anything. And as soon as he was gone I regretted it.
Did this dude think he was something special because he had been to Vegas? I looked at the guy I had been talking to and I think he thought the same thing. And even if the fountain isn’t as grand as the Bellagio’s, why is it not worth pointing out that he designed it. If Frank Lloyd Wright had designed my house I’d point it out even if it isn’t the Guggenheim Museum.

What a sad life this tool must live if he thinks having been to Vegas makes him special enough to interrupt people’s conversations to point out the obvious. I hope he doesn’t stay awake nights trying to figure out why he doesn’t have a date to things like that dinner.
My wife didn’t know who he was from my description, so he must not be anyone important. Needless to say I’ll be watching for him at future events for this organization.

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This weekend is Seafair in Seattle. Seafair is a hold over from when Seattle was a western outpost and not a western city filled with hippies in search of crunchy grooves and pachouli oil.
Basically the Navy comes and makes a lot of noise, including the Blue Angels who are practicing outside my window as I write this. They shut down the east-west highways over Lake Washington for even the practice. It’s pretty sweet.
Then they have hydroplane races.
And then the aforementioned hippies write angry letters to the editor about the environmentally unfriendly jingoism going on in their left wing city.
I have to agree it’s yet another event in Seattle for the people who live around but outside Seattle (see also every Seahawk game played at Qwest Field.) But it’d also be a damn shame if Seafair left Seattle because of a few loudmouth hippies. Besides as I see the Blue Angel’s F/A-18’s cruise over Capital Hill, I like to think that maybe one or two of them look up and realize they have the right to call the leader of their country names because of jets like those and the men who fly them. Since that’s probably asking too much, I then fantasize about those F/A-18s dropping a payload of incendiary bombs onto the hill and burning Baghdad Jim’s district out of existence. But only for a few seconds, because that’s one of the things that makes the America’s military great historically – it’s not used against her own people.

My wife and I got invited to a reception on board the Bonhomme Richard on Saturday evening. It pays to have a wife that hobnobs with the bigwigs. The first year we were here was my first time aboard an aircraft carrier, when the Stennis was the flagship of Seafair. That was a month before September 11, so I guess our carriers have more important things to do now. And that’s OK with me, since aircraft carriers are an everyday sight now.
So I am suspending my “Least amount of time in Seattle as possible” policy this week in order to see one of our freedom preserving ships of war and shake the hands of some of the men and women who make them useful.

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Overheard in line to board the ferry:
“I really want to go through the Da Vinci Code again with a highlighter and highlight the parts that are true so I can have it for reference.”

– Some lady with poor taste in books, who was apparently unaware that there are books that have all the fictional parts taken out already, saving you much highlighter fluid. They can be found in the “history” section on about any subject and era.

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I’ve been so tied up with commute-work-school-commute-sleep-repeat that the next couple weeks where I just have to work feels like a vacation. It also feels like I’m coming out of a blackout.
For instance, I saw a story about King Fahd being buried. That perplexed me, since I wasn’t aware that he had died. Not something that affects my day-to-day life, or even the operation of Saudi Arabia other than changing the title of Abdullah from “Crown Prince” to “King” but it is the kind of thing I usually don’t miss, nonetheless.

So what else has been going on?

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