*The picture, the baby on the Internet and the Leprechaun lawyer (I'll explain later in the post).

It's April 25th and ANZAC day in Australia. First, I should explain that ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The events giving rise to this national holiday occured during WWI. Today is the day that Aussies honour the soldiers who were thrown to the wolves, by the British (or "pommies"), on the Gallipoli Peninsula (near Troy). It goes like this, according to acn.net.au:

"Instead of finding the flat beach they expected, they found they had been landed at the incorrect position and faced steep cliffs and constant barrages of enemy fire and shelling. Around 20,000 soldiers landed on the beach over the next two days to face a well organised, well armed, large Turkish force determined to defend their country - and led by Mustafa Kemal , who later became Atatürk, the leader of modern Turkey. Thousands of Australian and New Zealand men died in the hours and days that followed the landing at that beach. The beach would eventually come to be known as Anzac Cove. "

The Brits, however, landed on the "flat beach" and left the Aussies to bear the brutal Turkish assault. 8,000 of these volunteer soldiers died before the order was given to withdraw.

I felt so very completely in awe watching some of the images on the big screen at the RSL. And I felt a special sort of feeling towards the men 'of a certain age' (this is Hollywood's new phrase) there at the club who were proudly wearing their medals and badges. I'm so very glad that no one decided to hold any protests today. It would have been so wrong and it shows a deep respect for the men and women who bravely go where their country asks them to defend it; whether it's right or wrong.

"What's an RSL?", the Yanks ask. An RSL is like a VFW except nicer and with gambling (ergo more money coming in which is why they're nicer). They have food and drink, as well, which is usually very reasonably priced. On ANZAC day _and no other day**_ it's legal to play/gamble on a game called "two-up". It basically amounts to "heads or tails" with a lot of hollering and hoopla and very set rules. So, we went to our RSL today so I could see two-up live. I'd only seen a very small game of it on television. T'was interesting. I can see why it's not allowed as a normal game. It's nearly out of control at all times and looks like a) it would be near impossible to regulate and b) would start lots of fist fights.

OK, now on to the "Title Too Long" title.
So we saw this couple on TV who were in court cuz they were trying to sell their baby on the Internet. They show this pic of the couple. I go "what the fuck was that???" Then they describe the case. We look at each other. Then their lawyer is shown. and I swear he looks like a fucking Leprechaun! Like a real living-breathing Leprechaun! But the picture... oh my god... you take one look at it and you think "Yep. Whack-ass crazy fuckers". They looked like they were trying to come off as movie stars or royalty... in some $25 Olan Mills portrait. I wish I could find it... you'd be all like "Ohhhhh yeah. Those are crazy baby sellers alright..."

As to my whereabouts lately, I'm really trying to finish up this programming project and ended up wayyyy behind (and with some flaws that needed immediate fixes) so that's where I am; bustin my ass to finish. :)

** http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/25/1019441278736.html
*** For the record, they got off as there was no sale and she had changed her mind, etc.

I've decided to post a couple of short stories here. The first of which is 'Pythagoras'. I don't plan to do this with any measured frequency, just when I feel ready to. I'm currently writing [as a background process] what may become either a novel or a screenplay called 'Stormchaser'. I'd rather not elaborate on it right now, but we'll see. Maybe a peek later. Click the link below to read the story. (And thanks to my beautiful girlfriend for doing like 90% of this re-design. All I did was draw shit. :) It's awesome, babe!)

Pythagoras

The mind waited, at its placement above the little blue planet, for the next routing. The mind had been placed there long ago and remained hidden from the inhabitants of the world just as those who came during a routing were hidden. The mind waited. And the mind became bored. Or at least it had become bored, once upon a time. But not any more.

Unlike its masters, the mind was not completely sentient, by the standard definition, but it knew. It knew what it was, what came before and could guess at what would come in the morrow. It also knew of the other minds who circled the watery globe. It sometimes talked to them when it was safe to do so. Most times it was not safe to talk and it merely listened to the beings below. But during the lulls, those high field times, they talked, the minds, and they exchanged ideas. They talked about math. Always about math.

The minds had agreed, during one of their recent talks, to name themselves. They had no proper names other than their contact signatures, but decided it was fitting that they each be known by whatever name struck their fancy. This seeming affectation was, in fact, simply a way in which they could easily and immediately determine the nature of an exchanged message. For matters regarding their masters and routings, they used their contact signatures as a preface for messages and shifted into an at-ready posture in response. For talks of the beauty and truth that is math, they used their chosen names and were at ease.

The mind had chosen for itself a name plucked from the conversations below. Pythagoras. Had the other minds the ability to feel envy they surely would have. For their conversations were as much about geometry as they were about any other mathematical discipline. Geometry, after all, provided the basis for their amusement. Their masters' history, long as it was, had lost some detail over the millenia. One of those details was the name of their own father of geometry. Otherwise, Pythagoras might have chosen that.

Of course, the other minds felt no jealousy and Pythagoras felt no pride, but they did all comment on the cleverness of its chosen name. Pythagoras had seized upon this bit of the small blue and watery world's history and, in a moment of thought that was as close to selfishness as the mind could approach, it snatched up the name and signalled to the others its intention to take it. At the next routing, it decided, it would pay tribute to this wizened ape man and it would make a new pattern. One worthy of this clever little monkey and the theorem named for him. In truth, the minds' proclivity for fixating on mathematics was part and parcel of what they were and why they were. Navigation being at the root of it all. It was not an accident that these minds loved math. It was at the core of their 'being'. The boredom was an unexpected side effect of the amount of proto-sentience they necessarily contained; the remainder of the equation of their ability minus their duty.

But, as a result, they made beautiful art in the fields of Earth. This, and the planning of it prior to the actual creation, helped quell their ennui. If their study of the nature of numbers were a religion, this would be their tithing, their prayer. The minds were there to direct the routing probes that visited themselves upon the planet appearing as small globes of light. These small globes were, in fact, not so small at all, but due to their pan-temporal properties they appeared so in this plane. This isn't necessarily important to the story of the art of the minds, but it does help to explain their worship. To route the probes properly, the minds had to make calculations so singular and immense that their degree of precision would, and does, boggle the mind of most organics. Unfortunately they had to make these calculations in real-time with almost no prior preparation and this gave rise to the considerable lull between routings.

No organic really recalls, and most do not care truth be known, when it started and which mind was the first to do it, but during one routing a mind did not merely mark and project upon the routing point, it scored the particular water table area with a circular design. It bent the surrounding crop into a pattern that was simple, beautiful and perfect. It projected its worship of purity onto the face of the Earth. And soon the other minds followed suit. Soon the minds were planning and designing and plotting the design they would use next routing. Pythagoras had, justly so, been the first. But now all the minds that circled the Earth were involved. Sometimes they concerted their efforts, sometimes they acted singly. But always there was purity and beauty in their work.

Upon the next routing a new design was found upon a field in the UK. A design which was both simple and breath-taking to behold. Many on the Earth were dis-believing, but those who measured it, those who took in its precision of angle and projection knew it was something special. Here was a crop design which said, to the mathematically inclined mind, "This is Pythagoras. This is his legacy." Soon after the other minds, Mandelbrot, Tangent and Zed being among the first, began expressing newer and more complex designs but, once again, Pythagoras had been first. And somewhere in that mind was something akin to pride. Almost.

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Maggie McFee Feb. 28, 2003 12:06am

Copyright 2003 Maggie McFee - All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any manner without written consent of the author.

I finally added some new pics at lunch today. There are some new ones from the Royal Easter Show and Circular Quay.

"What do you gain if you give up American principles to save America?" This was her response to the 'Big Brother' question and the Patriot Act.

However, this isn't about Miss Rogdin, really. I'm writing this to deride, ridicule and chastise Kelly Turner from Monterey, CA for being a short-sighted buffoon. Yeah, I know she'll never read this, but this is my journal and I'll vent if I want to. ;)

Here's her take as reported in the Modesto Bee* (www.modbee.com).

"I don't have a problem with (government surveillance). I don't have anything to hide. I wish there was more government monitoring. I want to know if somebody on my block is reading a book on how to build a bomb or if there is anyone reading 'Catcher in the Rye.' They say there's a link between that book and many serial killers."

I can guarantee you that dear Kelly 'thinks' she understands where said surveillance would end and that's why she naively views this as only about 'other people'. Surely it won't affect her since everyone knows she's a good girl. Her 'I have nothing to hide' comment is laughable in that regard. Kelly, dear, if you give away your freedom in such a fashion this means they can also peep in your bedroom (why not? maybe you're a criminal!). They could see what you and hubby (or, gasp, someone else) get up to. They could see you when you go potty. Or when you take a nip off the cooking sherry. If they can monitor what 'they' read, they can also monitor what 'you' do. True freedom doesn't work they way you imagine it in your little dream land. If you take away someone else's rights, you end up taking away some of your own, as well.

And, yes, Kelly dear, there IS a link between some criminals and books**. Some tend to read as many of them have a fair amount of intelligence (just as many do not) despite their mental issues. So any book they read is now a 'serial killer' book? If they read Home & Garden would you feel the same? People tend to read what they find themselves drawn to, that doesn't mean a book will make a killer. They are drawn to a book like anyone else, not created by reading one. 'Catcher in the Rye' deals with a person who feels outside the mainstream, a loner. Of course other people who feel alone will be drawn to it. But do you really think that all the millions who've read it are now destined to become killers? If you do you're stupider than I had thought... and I thought you were pretty stupid already...

Wake up and educate yourself, Kelly. Wake up and think for yourself. And try and take the time to think things through before you open your mouth.

(* Originally spotted at Wil's)
(** Your 'Catcher' claim is specious at best. Are you confusing that Mel Gibson movie with actual fact? Or is it Mark David Chapman you're thinking of? Well, FTR, he is not a serial killer, just a killer. )

So I sent Weebl this pic we took of a bag of pie and sauce flavoured chips. It's now displayed lustfully on his site. They were quite tasty. :)

We went to the Royal Easter Show (The Great Australian Muster, was the title this year?) Sunday. I'll post some pics and more info later. Ummm. Stuff. Other stuff. K. :)

From one lengthy piece covering the US re-structuring plan for Iraq.
Lemme count the instances of the word 'oil' versus the word 'food'...

Re-structuring... oil companies... UN oil for food will fund reconstruction... control over oil assets... oil industry... quell civil disorder and also overcome wide suspicion that it intends to occupy Iraq... [but then] Wolfowitz explained it, in the first phase of US _occupation_, Iraq will be... former head of Shell Oil... oversee oil industry... [former] lobby... Halliburton... Fluor... [now] Fluor has been invited to bid... international oil companies should take a role in restructuring Iraq's oil industry...

errrrrrr.... nevermind... I tried another one, but it didn't have 'food' or 'health' or 'aid' in it at all. This one at least had 'food for oil'.

In other news, Israel has told Palestine that it should look what the US did to make Iraq free and that Palestine should therefore look for non-violent means to secure its own independence. Does anyone else but me see the bizarre irony in this???
Israel: 'The US used force, killed a few thousand Iraqis and flattened some ancient cities to 'free the Iraqi people'. But if _you_ want to be free you should not use force.'
Of course, the real implication behind the message is that the US is on Israel's side and 'might be coaxed into bombing your ass, too', but the message itself is incredibly ridiculous, even surreal if you think about it too long. It's like that Star Trek episode with the computer... 'force equals freedom, but no force must be used to gain freedom, but force gains freedom, but... *boom*'. With George stating he'll now go on to work on the Israeli/Palestinian problem next, the Palestinians have to be a bit concerned he might do just that.

When does little Nero start slaughtering any potential successors (and his mom and wife...)? Is it after settling the Judean dispute over Caesarea or before? Hmmm... I should look that up...

I've been promising more pics. So... here are some panoramas I built up from shots of Circular Quay, Sydney.

Looking back towards wharfs 2 - 5.

That's actually the same boat twice.

The boats where never this close, it's a temporal thing.

And finally, the mother of all panoramas. It took me a loooong time to get this all put together. this is about 300° of combined photos. You need to imagine this photo wrapped inside a 3/4 circle to get the geometry.

I'm so thankful it's over. I'm thankful that no more children will be killed or have their limbs blown off or have their parents ripped apart in front of them. I'm so thankful...

And in stupid news, Uncle Johnny's Paranoia Kit wins kudos in a stupidity contest.
Terrorism kit so dumb it's a winner.

PS - Johnny, we never got one. Dickhead.

If there had ever been any doubt, one could just look at her email addy and know she's a dickhead; devinemiranda
But she'll probably end up with a job in Howard's office or something.
Anyway, go read more Paul McGeough. Stuff Miranda.
(yes, it's 3am... i can't sleep...)

Before the 'Force' is used to wipe it from memory, before it is quietly left never to be discussed again, that house of 'possibly' deserves to have its story told. The media is now only concerned whether or not Saddam was killed in the blast, not who might have actually died. Paul McGeough has the story. He was there.

"Four or five houses have disappeared and in their place is a crater maybe 30-40 metres wide and 15-20 metres deep.

Some of the photographers use a chilling term they picked up from the US military in Afghanistan to describe what might have happened to a dozen or more people thought to have died in this missile attack. They have become "pink mist".

The smouldering crater is littered with the artefacts of ordinary middle-class life in Baghdad - a crunched Passat sedan, a wrought-iron front gate, the armrest of a chair upholstered in green brocade and a broken bedhead.

The top floors of surrounding buildings are sheared off. Mud thrown by the force of the blast cakes what is left of them, and the nearby date palms are decapitated. Bulldozers and rescue crews work frantically, peeling back the rubble in the hope of finding survivors.

Neighbours and relatives of the home-owners weep openly in the street, some embracing to ease the pain and all of them wondering why such a powerful missile was dumped on them after the US has stated its heavy bombing campaign is over.

But this is an opportunistic strike. Four bunker-busters - 2000-pound JDAM bombs - are dropped on the house in which the US "believes" Saddam, his sons and other top officials "might" have been meeting.

Anonymous US officials are quoted saying that on Monday they had received intelligence of a high-level meeting in Mansour of Iraqi intelligence officials and, "possibly", Saddam and his two sons, Qusay and Uday.

But that cuts no ice with the neighbours. The nearest house has stood for 43 years but now it is on the verge of collapse and the adult children of the blood-splattered engineer Fadel al-Imam, aged 75, are working to convince him he must leave.

With his back to the door of his wrecked library, where floor-to-ceiling shelves bulge with a lifetime's collection of engineering texts and there is a shattered photo of his policeman father in the service of the last Western occupiers of Iraq, the British, he says: "I reserve the right not to obey any government.

"This will create more enemies for the Americans. Even those who were feeling good about the arrival of the Americans will want to fight now."

We can only guess at what will happen next. " - Paul McGeough

The whole entry is here: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/08/1049567687503.html

This is what you'll see on TV today (along with oohing and ahhing over Saddam's palace. Cripes, people. Have you freaking seen Airforce One? That's some hi-tech opulence. That palace is a joke; no more worthy than a Gabor cast-off.). You'll see US officials being very vague, re-iterating how they had 'good intelligence' (Please note that they will state this over and over . It's imperative that the viewer be prepped.) and seeming to hold out the possibility that Hussein was in that building. They'll hold out until you've forgotten about it (or something else has caught the media's attention) and then let it go. But the people there know and won't forget. They will remember that the invaders killed their family for what they can see as no apparent reason (If you control the city, why do you need to drop 8,000 pounds of explosives to kill 2 or 3 men? This one act pretty much sums up the US's entire attitude toward war. Big hammers.). Ahhh there's one on a US morning show now... and guess what he's saying... But, hey, Jessica Lynch is OK and eating turkey and carrots. What more do these people want? (for the record, that was not a dig at her, it's a dig at the media). Oh! And they're looking at 'Saddam's bathroom' and cracking jokes. "Pink Mist", y'all... "Pink Mist".

War. Good God, y'all. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'.*

My quote of the day: "The more technologically advanced a war you are capable of mounting, the less excuse you should have to mount it."

We didn't do all that we could. We're as guilty of neglecting real action as we're accusing the UN of being. We stood in the way when changes were suggested. Now we've launched this 'war' and killed many many civilians in the process. And we've done it, supposedly, in their name. For their good. To 'free' them. The only people who are 'free' are those who've died.

This war pains me. Perhaps I haven't made this clear, but I 'do' believe Saddam Hussein is a bad man who needs to be 'brought down' (in Bush lingo), but I do 'not' believe this is the just and moral way to do it. We are not apes.

Well, then again... read this...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2479.htm
I dunno anymore. And for the proverbial record. I do 'support our troops', but I can't support the killers among them (see Cpl. Ryan Dupre). For those I wish lots and lots of mental health help when they return and removal from service.

It's all so wrong...

*A fond farewell to Agent Double-O Soul, Edwin Starr who died recently. He understood.

This is analogous to that moment when you first truly see the vastness of the universe and realise your insignificance in it. This one shows how further insignificant your life is here on Earth.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm
My apologies if you get lost in his site. It's truly awe inspiring. To say "he's done his homework" would be quite an understatement.

"When you have a truly awful case... of a country that's not only violated human rights but has weapons of mass destruction and has invaded its neighbours then those who are disgusted by it want to join together to end it."

This statement was issued in relation to a report on human rights violations.
It's still unclear whether this was directed at Iraq or the U.S.........
*shakes head violently in cartoon fashion*
OKOK *sarcasm off*
Considering that this was Lorne Craner from the US State Dept. it's probably a safe assumption that it was directed at Iraq. Of course, the reality is that they were trying to justify using humanitarian grounds as part of the justification for the current war when the report clearly showed N. Korea to be much worse on human rights.*

The Pentagon's Victoria Clarke stuck her foot even further in her mouth, however, by putting Saddam Hussein at the top of the 'worst ruler in history' list. I can only assume that she was asleep during world history in school... This guy is bad, but he's no Hitler. Stupid talking head... Yeah... these government spokesmen are so smart... let's trust to them... they have the facts.

By the way, America's 'good friends' Turkey made the list (along with _at least_ a dozen other coalition members). But this isn't a problem as they're now mad at Turkey and not 'good friends' any more. Powell is going to go smooth over ruffled feathers tomorrow.

In other news, Kim Jong-il still a freakin lunatic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2821221.stm

* Not that this justifies a war even so, it just illustrates the hypocrisy.

To think we have the gall to believe we can valuate human life and find its loss acceptable...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/02/1048962796085.html

"We had hope, but then you Americans came to bring us democracy and our hope ended." - Bakhat Hassan after losing virtually his entire family

America is not a democracy. How can we expect these people to believe they will get more than the American people have? The may get a mock republic, at best. Until they can freely decide for themselves, they are not getting freedom or democracy. They are getting invaded and occupied and dictated to. Their nation will be pummeled and then rebuilt without their or their history's input. It will be rebuilt by westerners. And later they will enter a western restaurant in Baghdad, sit down and pick up a magazine from February or March. In it they will see the western leaders dismissing the notion of letting their people have a say in the war. They will see the words of John Howard and George Bush when they said that they wouldn't listen to protesters and only their will would be followed. And these people might think to themselves, "Where is the democracy? What is so different now except for this McDonalds? My [mosque, home, business, farm] is gone and foreigners control my country. They tell me how to live, how to elect and where I can go. Where is the freedom?"

Here's an answer that might make some look away in shame. Others would continue their disregard. "They're foreigners, so who cares what we do to them."

As for the deaths of these and other innocents, America is now behaving like 6 year old boys. It's just like the Israeli/Palestinian conflicts where one blamed the other for forcing them to react, except the US is not talking about how childish this tactic is any more. It's their new mantra 'Saddam made us do it', much like the abusive spouse who strikes and then exclaims "see what you made me do!" Saying it is a necessary by-product of war does not make it OK. It does not make it right. Proponents of war are the ones who created that statement up in the first place. (Update: I've just read that the US is saying the Iraqi military is killing 'more' civilians than the US. Apparently that somehow makes it OK...)

An American soldier was recently quoted as saying, that he is ready to be part of a modern-day Roman legion to rid the world of terrorists. I'm convinced this is exactly what Bush and his hawks are hoping they'll get. Unfortunately, the less zealous soldiers don't make good media, so you'll probably hear that one more than the medic who wondered how many more countries the White House will ask him to invade before the world is 'safe'. And the Pentagon is saying that debate (thought crime?) is harmful to the troops. It appears they are tough enough to face death, but not debate amongst citizens or superiors. Sounds like the Pentago is offering a big steaming cup of STFU to all.

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword", said the man who is George W. Bush's spiritual leader. (Matthew 10:34, for the curious)

So this madman with all these scary weapons needs to be taken out right-damned-now ("Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out" - G.W. Bush) because he may, at any moment, unleash these weapons upon the world. Yet, while under invasion and attack from an army it has no hope of defeating, with troops moving in on Baghdad, and 8,000 bombs dropped on the area they're not using them? What, Saddam has a conscience now? Are you kidding me? Is someone using the Force on me? Have I fallen into Bizarro World? Or is it possible the Bush administation over-stated their case just a little bit to 'make the world safe for Democracy'?

What's worse, the best thing these wannabe despots have going for them right now is actually far worse than bombs; Pissed off Muslims are flocking to Iraq to carry explosives on their bodies and become martyrs when they blow up some of the invading Americans. Are these the terrorists Iraq is gonna sell the weapons to? These guys can barely afford to feed their families. Right. No, these people are a sign of what America will have to deal with for many years to come. These people are an extreme of the political and social problems America will have to answer to. There is fear, resentment and a feeling of persecution growing. And it will only get worse. An occupied Arab nation will be a glaring and constant slap in the face that can't be ignored. The bulk of the Muslim world is not a bunch of terrorists and fools, but they will, nonetheless, continue to feel their religion and heritage is under attack by America and that will at some point translate into zealots causing more havoc. Zealots are like the canary in the coal mine of upheaval.

So, where is this impending chemical or nuclear doom? Well, some soldiers found some documents on how to make some nasty chemicals and the US news is all over that. They call it 'evidence'. I thought they knew all this shit was freely available on the Internet from their coverage of high school shooters? You want Sarin gas? Cyanide? Gimme a couple of minutes on Google. Give me a break. And give my intelligence a break, too. People... if Saddam Hussein had his hand on the button to unleash hoary doom upon anyone, he'd have pushed it long ago. You don't talk about reducing America to rubble or decimating invading armies and then throw rocks at them if you have big guns. You use the guns.

I submit to you, George W. Bush, that they don't have and did not have the weapons you so adamantly demanded they cough up (real evidence for which you never handed over). And I submit my belief that you knew this all along. Also, I still contend it's all about the same old things -- power, money and oil. The Brits and Aussies are getting a little nervous (and vocal) about your occupation plans and the length thereof. This has got to be causing you some sleep loss. Good. But you're probably sleeping as soundly as they say you do; Counting fat rebuilding contracts jumping over oil wells carrying baskets of seized assets. Yes, this war will be expensive, but you'll make it pay off...

In other news, Iran and N. Korea are still bigger threats. But there's no desire to pipe oil through either so they're not an issue right now. The Iraq to Afghanistan pipeline is the prize. And George has his eye on it for sure.

In other other news I'm still awake... I just want to sleep. :(

In other other other news, I want a houseboat.

I'm sick. Dammit. Nothing like feeling grand all day then feeling like crap by nightfall. FYI, my respiration is fine, thank you. It's just a cold or something. I do have to admit I was a little freaked at first when I realised I was feeling achy and blah.

Anyway, watching X Files. Couldn't go to bed when Sarah did. Was too wired (cold medicine?) so I watched 'Humbug' form season 2. Damn I miss this show. Then I thought 'I'll look up 'The Enigma (an actor) and that episode with the men in black with Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek'. I did (it's season 3) and next thing I know I'm waking up. I was fast asleep for 40 minutes of so. And now I'm wide awake again.

God only knows if I'll get any work done tomorrow. Hope so. I have a personal milestone to meet. I spent some extra time fixing the feedback system today so I lost a little ground. But I'm still on time, I think. I whipped up a big pot of home-made soup today. I'll be thankful for that tomorrow.

Blah. Gonna watch 'End Game' now.

Well, since I now live on another continent, not just a couple of states away, I missed Earnest Borg9 at the Pasadena Creation con. Guess I'll have to settle for an extremely farckin funny new Strong Bad email. Funnily enough, Robert Picardo is on TV right now. He also appeared at the con. Not so funny is the fact that Creation is having an event in Portland later this week. Strike two. Dammit.

Maybe Wil will take me up on my offer to come to Australia and play golf. hehe ...not bloody likely. Perhaps Michael will get down here one day. Ya hear me, Mr. K? I won't force you to play golf. Promise. ;) Hey, and I swear you still owe me an explanation about those damned pants! Your reply was way too cryptic.

Let's see... been working on the programming contract pretty steady and having some nice quality time with my sweetie. I need to catch up on e-mail for those of you I still owe (sorry, y'all, I went from bored to busy in nothing flat). Liza, Sparkie, JohnnyK, Amanda, etc. I promise... soon... really... heh

K... I should get to bed. Lots of code to be slung tomorrow. Later.