Day 5. No e-mail after hours. Symptoms of anxiety seem to ebb and flow…but generally appear to be decreasing. This is reassuring. I need to get back to the stasis I once had. Day 6 is a whole new battle.
from wired:
Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice shed new light on the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic spying last week when he told MSNBC that the NSA blended credit card transaction records with wiretap data to keep tabs on thousands of Americans.
From The Raw Story:
Monday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told CNN’s Rick Sanchez that the US has an “obligation” to investigate whether Bush administration officials ordered torture, adding that he believes that there is already enough evidence to prosecute former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
This site is starting to become useless. I just paid my annual renewal…but I might abandon this blog. It can’t serve as an online diary of any substance. I’m still contemplating doing something anonymously…I feel stifled. Maybe I just need to rethink the whole thing. I might remove all of the personal content and just post items I find interesting/unusual/cool/weird/useful. I’m going to have to give it some thought.
I still have a little post Inauguration glow, but it’s time to get back to business. We are charged to better ourselves and our country. Let’s get to it.
On the home front, my sister is student teaching and is in her third week. I’m so proud of her and I know she will be a great teacher. Her daughter, my niece, continues to get cuter by the day and I really miss seeing them. Hopefully I will be able to see them in the spring. Brenden continues to be successful in AZ and I’m also very proud of him and his ‘mastery of the atom’. I don’t know when I’ll get to see him next.
Steph and I are doing well, tired, but well. We’re starting to get bids on the kitchen. We are still not completely sure how it’s going to be funded, but we’ll figure it out. Most contractors don’t take credit cards. On the other hand, we will be adding value to the house and improving our general quality of life. It will be a good thing to have functioning burners.
Work is a little hectic and we’re still working on a software rollout. It’s going exceptionally well, but I fret. I’ve worked on so many software projects in my life, I know the propensity for error and general malfunction. Any large system is prone to statistical shifts and glitches. We’ve gotten some good potential news from the proposed economic stimulus package. More funds are being proposed for application to Centers for Independent Living.
Well, I’m really babbling…but I can, it’s my blog. I’m going to do some research, have dinner and go to bed. I’m ready for change.
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. -Martin Luther King
We’re working on a large software implementation at work. It’s giving me ‘flashbacks’ to my days in IT. I truly dislike software development and hardware configuration. Thankfully, most of the work is just software configuration, but there’s plenty of it. Unfortunately, it’s a lot of workflow planning and logic mapping as well. The payoff will be when it’s all in place and working. I anticipate achieving our ROI within the first year…not bad. It’s still a tremendous amount of effort.
I’ll post details when we get closer to finishing.
…Still dealing with repercussions from the budget cuts. Being the ‘bad guy’ is not ever pleasant and being the boss is more responsibility than most people realize. Preparations for the state-wide IL conference continue and I need to work on my presentations.
Steph continues to work hard as a vet tech, while putting up with me. I love her more than anything. The staff at work continues to kick butt. The state continues to frustrate me.
I’m keeping my resolution(s) and am going offline. ttfn. enuff whining for now.
I almost forgot my December update. Here it is. NOW, I’m going offline until Friday. Happy New Year!
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