Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Who is busy slamming his head on his keyboard, trying to meet a fixed deadline while his boss keeps moving the damned target. :::sigh:::

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Alison’s off in DC attending the Presidential Classroom, her chosen topic being Global Heath & Environment. In one week she’ll have met many more official honchos than I have in my life.
And she’ll handle it just fine- that’s not my concern. She was even elected Executive Director of her class, and will [...]

So today I realized that we have exactly one month before our friends arrive from France…we’ve always got somebody visiting, but this one’s different- I haven’t seen them since 2002 and Charlie’s never met them.
You’d never know it, though- he’s the one sweating over the plans. I think he’s determined they need to have [...]

So there have been two stories I can’t stop thinking about in the last 24 hours, and both make my chair involuntarily slide further left.

Fox news headline: ‘Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama’s baby mama’

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Hour gongs were being struck all across the city and night-watchmen were proclaiming that it was indeed midnight and also that, in the face of all the evidence, all was well. Many of them got as far as the end of the sentence before being mugged.
-Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Once a month we, the community, meet [...]

These guys were wandering through the crowd (pre torrent) hawking their peanuts, and I loved their shirts. I asked one of them what it meant- a hurricane surrounded by peanuts.
“It means we’re in New Orleans,” he said flatly. Uh….right.

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Friday afternoon Charlie came back with me. I’d bought him a frilly shirt and he felt like an ass. He wasn’t really excited about it…he even went out the house’s side gate into the car, and made me promise him that he wouldn’t look like a moron. I promised him that if he felt like [...]

Not exactly surprising, but they did set a certain tone…

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I took my notebook along to PirateCon; I was originally going to take the laptop and liveblog it, but I decided that wasn’t very piratey.
I knew from perusing the website that there were some really intense people involved in PyrateCon, but…oh, I just had no idea.
Notes from “The Devil’s in the Details:”
(9AM, Friday)
-I [...]

I was going to bow out, but talked to Charlie last night, and he’s pretty hardcore. Not only does he want to go to the parade, he wants me to go to the symposia as well.
I didn’t have too much of a problem blowing off work (Not like I’m going to fire myself, is [...]