i'm leavin' on a jet plane

and heading to Warner Robins, Ga. for two days of meetings between my employer and a potential subcontractor on a piece of work for the US Air Force we're prolly going to bid on. i learnt about this yesterday and had to pack last night so i could bring my luggage to work and go from here to BWI. i come back friday.

the travel per se isn't bad, but for fuck's sake, a DAY'S notice? not quite even 24 hours! it means a harried whirl of feline care procurement (but dearly do i love my friends who help me thus) and it means i have only a day's notice to give to the Suspicious Cheese Lords about missing rehearsal--not really too cool.

what IS cool is that all my time in transit is billable. i should have about 10 hours this week of PAID overtime--good lard, who ever gets THAT anymore? well, this company opted to bring me on termp-to-perm; so on the downside i have to work holidays to get paid for them, i get no vacation this spring, etc.--so while i'm a wage slave (ok, ok, i'm an ass-licking house n-----) i'm gonna get what OT i can--which, given the schedule of proposals coming up, looks to be a bunch. woohoo.

so i just wrote to the L.A. Times

Thus:
"Although results vary depending on the wording of poll questions, most Americans generally say they place a higher priority on pursuing terrorists than protecting civil liberties," says Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer, in his January 25 analysis "Democrats May Argue Liberties to Their Peril." In fact, it doesn't matter in the least how the question is worded, because that question is entirely irrelevant. Now, if you polled Americans thus: "Would you rather the federal government fight terrorism legally and remain accountable to the electorate, or would you prefer the government to fight terrorism without heed of any legal restraint, due process, or accountability?", what do you suppose the answer would be? ( don't get me started )

P.S.

The newspapers keep saying things like "Bush goes on the offensive" re wiretapping. I'm like, isn't that a redundancy?

"It is resolved: I'm gonna moon him." --Peanut, Harvey Birdman, Atty. at Law