sunshine

More snow. How can this be? I am hearing 4-8 inches expected, but that 8 strikes me as crazy talk. 4 certainly looks likely from the way things are going though. It was clear when I drove in this morning, then pow, winter storm. I by no means approve. I notice that most of our neighbors have gone home for the day already.

Mike made me join him in trying a 'sugar free Red Bull energy drink' at lunch today. This thing tasted nasty and is designed to get a person all hepped up. It will probably mainly make me frantic and cranky, and maybe short of breath.

I finished watching "Below" last night and thought it was OK. I put in "Reign: the Conqueror", watched a few minutes then gave up. It was time to return it anyway.

I did watch "Futurama" also. That was all right... I like that show but I feel like the funniness of it peaked around their third broadcast season. I am still nerdy enough to appreciate the cartoon-science fiction comedy effort though. I wonder how many former 'Dungeon Masters' they have on their writing staff. From what I gather last night's episode might be the last first-run episode that FOX will show; not sure if or when the Cartoon Network will get to show the rest of them.

I am going to go scowl at the snow once more, then I have to get back to work.

germ warfare is sick

I will guess we wound up with close to 4 inches of very wet snow today. There is still some kind of light sleet coming down, or there was when I came home from work about an hour ago anyway. Everyone deserted me at the office so I decided to head home as well. I hear the weather is going to be wet and cold for a couple more days. I am hoping there won't be much ice out there tomorrow morning.

I should ride my bike or something but I am kind of wrapped up in the book The Cobra Event here. It is freaking me out and I am not completely sure why. I guess there is a sort of instinctive revulsion at the thought of some people working diligently to eradicate something as awful as smallpox, even while other people turn around and cultivate it as a weapon. I can tell I am going to be obsessed with this topic for a little while, at least for as long as it takes to read another book or two. I know we all will die eventually, but the idea of a big plague wrecking society still gives me the shivers. For one thing, without society, what would there be for me to blame? I don't even want to think about it.

a big fat ball of confusion called me

LiveJournal is not treating me right. Very slow, lots of timeouts. Not sure I will be able to record my very important thoughts.

From MSNBC, right now:

"A U.S. Air Force warplane dropped four enormous bombs on a residential complex where “extremely reliable” intelligence indicated that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and one or both of his two sons were attending a meeting, senior administration officials told NBC News late Monday. The sources would not rule out the possibility that Saddam could have moved before the bomber struck, but they said it was likely that he and his sons were dead."

Haven't we heard this before? Oh wait except for the residential part. Residential. Wonderful. That thought makes the stomach turn. I sure hope it was worth it, and that the area was somehow deserted of random civilians. Why do I doubt that though?

Over the weekend I periodically found myself wondering at all the incorrect information that is reported about this war. You have all kinds of rumor/hearsay/speculation/"fog of war" stuff, but then there also appear to be out and out lies from both of the "sides" in this thing. I don't know what it is about me but I can't deal with people lying. A very low tolerance for 'ambiguity'? Some sort of naivete or something stupidly inflexible in my thinking? I don't know the clever way of putting it, I just get riled up when I think people aren't telling the truth. I get sort of intrigued sometimes too, but a lot of the time I just get mad. This last weekend though I mostly found myself wondering just what what was going on in Baghdad, and why some of what was happening was happening, and why some of what was being reported was being reported. Does that make any sense? It was a regular ball of confusion.

So now this story tonight. Where has Saddam been and what has be been doing? I thought he was no longer in control of the country. Have they killed him or is this some new attempt to goad him or some remaining element of his inner circle into showing themselves? What is going on, what has been going on? Should I even bother paying attention right now or should I just wait for a few years? Whine, whine whine.... But really there is no way I can stop paying attention, who am I kidding.