Current location:	work
Current mood:	busy
Current music:	Nothing - Depeche Mode (Music for the Masses)

mini update
I'm alive! Or, at least, reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've been even busier than usual lately, mostly catching up on a project that got out of hand here at work. Not much otherwise of any real interest going on lately, mainly just the normal routine. I've been doing a lot of work with my various iTunes playlists, and am very excited that iTunes Plus is finally launching. Come to me, my high-bitrate, no-DRM lovelies ...

I've been playing a lot of Spiderman 3 on XBox lately. It's mainly an exercise in button-mashing, but once you get the hang of web-swinging you can just ignore the random crimes going on around you and clear your head with a tour through the greater New York area. I need to get back on the ball with prep time for the D&D game, and of course my minis collection is overflowing the area set aside to hold it and is badly in need of re-organization.

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and co-founder of Air America Radio, will be appearing at the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse this weekend. I'll be there tomorrow night representing Drinking Liberally Arlington, so if you're free and end up out there tomorrow make sure to look me up.

Also, if you (like me) are pissed off at the Democrats in Congress for supporting a funding bill for Bush's Folly (aka the Occupation of Iraq) that includes no meaningful (or even optional, sneer) benchmarks, guidelines, or timetables, then this MoveOn.org Political Action may be up your alley.

Here's my (hand-written, no less!) note to Senator Reid:

Dear Senator Reid,

This teabag is a reminder that sending Bush funding for the war in Iraq with absolutely no restrictions or oversight on the use of those funds is weak tea indeed.

Please stop supporting Bush's monumental foreign policy blunder. Democrats were elected to put the brakes on the Bush administration and end this unjust war!

Oversight is long overdue and, sadly, it seems Congress has forgotten that an overwhelming majority of the American people opposes this administration's reckless foreign policy in Iraq.

End the war! Bring the troops home!

Sincerely,

( me )