Month: September 2004

Okay, a sure sign I haven’t recovered from my vacation yet. I was falling asleep at my desk this morning (this after taking off a few hours early yesterday, going home, immediately falling asleep for 2 hours and then waking up and not being able to sleep the rest of the night), so I decided to take a nap at lunch. I get home, throw off my skirt and shirt (yes, TMI, but I promise it’s relevant to the story) and fall asleep right away. An hour later, I wake up (thanks to my overly trusty alarm), throw my clothes back on and head back to work. I’m sitting at my desk and look down…my shirt is on wrong side out. It’s not like it’s a t-shirt that’s easy to do that with, it’s a button up shirt with pockets on the front and with a collar. Oye. Good thing no one saw me when I got back to the office!

I somehow stumbled across a blog with lovely photos of Venice. Check them out – although they will have you checking on your credit card limit and the cost of plane tickets…

The Gobbler – creative uses for loud carpet. I kept hoping this was a joke as I was scrolling through it…is it? Because if not, as the site says, what were they thinking?

National Guard Smoking Gun?

This story is a perfect demonstration of the difference between the Swift Boat controversy and the National Guard controversy. Both are tales from long ago and both are related to Vietnam, but the documentary evidence in the two cases is like night and day. In the Swift Boat case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence indicates that Kerry’s accusers are lying. Conversely, in the National Guard case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence provides additional confirmation that the charges against Bush are true.

My cat Mishka’s obsession with fetching is getting way out of control. He can’t seem to stop. I was taking a shower the other morning and after rinsing my hair, see him sitting on the edge of the tub with his favorite fetch toy (a light weight and bouncy ball). He lets out his “please throw the ball meow” – yes, he’s developed a specialized meow – and drops the ball into the tub! I tossed it out and he happily ran off after it. When my shower was done, he jumped into the tub and dropped the ball at my feet when I was trying to dry my hair. He’s a very strange little kitten.

This? Is freaky as hell. Yet another way for an industry to make money off of death.

I didn’t watch any of the Republican convention. I was afraid it would be stroke inducing. Based on the news coverage, I think I made the right decision. How politicians (not just Republicans) mind you, can get away with making misleading statement after misleading statement is being me. Or, in other words, how the public fails to look beyond the sound-byte and hold politicians accountable for their words saddens me.

Some accounts of how we are being mislead:
Two perspectives…
Which is true?
GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions

Hee! Someone should have paid a bit more attention to the dogs in that third photo before putting that picture up on their website.