Gah.

Today:

Gave a presentation at the monthly IT briefing on the status of the BB upgrade. I was called upon to do so because the PM is on sick leave this week, and the guy who has weaseled his way into her go-to guy spot has a fear of public speaking (even though it's inherently a job requirement, imho). Presentation went well, and I suspect that I may be the go-to guy now (as a result of this and just generally being much better at communicating with large groups). This likely means I'll be sent to DC in July for a day or two.

After the briefing, the entire fucking campus network went down, so no work, none of the major things I needed to do for the new house, and no LJ for hours on end. Lovely. No attempt being made to catch up on LJ, other than quickly glancing at tvpicks to ensure that, indeed, Arrested Development is back! Yes, Fox actually failed to cancel a good show in its first year for the first time in five or six years!

The big news? We're signing the lease on the house today, and, U-Haul willing, we'll be moving this Saturday instead of next! gmslegion and jet_li_wannabe (both of whom had wonderfully committed for next weekend), if either of your schedules are free this weekend, we sure wouldn't turn you down! (feel free to fill out shadesong's poll at http://shadesong.livejournal.com/1875908.html as well).

No time for my usual entertainment web-surfing today. Sorry.

Linkage

Can we sink any lower? Is there anyone -- anyone -- out there with such a poorly developed sense of humanity (forget ethics of morality) who thinks that the soldiers described shouldn't have their dicks (or clits -- we've certainly proven that evil knows no gender boundaries) chopped off and fed to them with rancid mayonnaise?

Meanwhile, at the "top," the press is doing a wonderful job of burying most stories about Riggs and their links to the Saudis, including providing money-laundering operations that might well have financed terrorist groups.

But what's really buried is the fact that the CEO of Riggs is some guy named Jonathan Bush, whose brother is a former president, and whose nephew is the worst and most vile president in US history.

Hey, if a presidential brother (or daughter) drinks too much, that's a story. But commits ethical lapses bordering on treason (and unquestionably criminal)? Hey, that's not news.

(then again, Dubya and his brothers are all pretty much cut from the same cloth as Uncle Johnny, they just didn't associate with terrorists when they committed most of their financial crimes).

Not that any of this matters in John Ashcroft's Amerika, where speech is free when you act all happy-like, and costly when you don't.

Next time I go to Kroger, I may have to keep an eye out for Constitution Brand Toilet Paper. It's pretty fucking obvious that Shrubya doesn't have any other plans for it.