Just Another Blog
Thursday, October 17, 2002
 
Back in a Few

All righty then. That's all of the posting for a few days. I'm off to KC in the AM to visit the Hyena and go see the Broncos play the Chiefs at Arrowhead. Vince will be in town come Monday, so the two of them will likely have to fight nasty hangovers next Tuesday at work while I sleep-in like the underemployed bum that I am.

I've actually been doing a lot of work on the Fairness Project this week. I've finally reached the point where they are paying me to surf the net looking for stories that I'm interested in anyway. I've been wondering all day why I haven't been better at putting in more time with this job. It's basically everything I say I want in a job. I have minimal contact with people; I have minimal contact with supervisors; I could work in my underwear if I didn't live with my sister; I can listen to music as loudly as I want while I work; I can drink two pots of coffee and go to the bathroom ten times in 5 hours if I want. I'm going to make an effort to appreciate what I've got when I get back. It's not perfect, but it's convenient as hell, and I need the money.

I'm a little freaked out by the recent pronouncement by Mr. George Tenet that an attck against American interests appears imminent. Why is his word not enough to raise the Homeland color back up to orange? I'll trust the director of the CIA over Tom Ridge if given a choice. His comments along with the general specualtion that the sniper in DC is an intentional distraction designed to draw attention away from trucks on the highway that are specifically not white and could be heading from our widen open borders in the south up the coast to the northeast corridor just seems kind of suspicious. I don't like it, and frankly, I'm a little nervous. I think I'd avoid New York for now given my druthers.

But KC is dull and far away from everything, so I will have my mind on more fun things for the next few days. See you soon.