Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

While reading Thomas Paine, I can't help comparing his writing style and the way he organizes his arguments to various Usenet/mailing-list/blog posters I'm familiar with, and trying to figure out whom he most reminds me of.

"The great thing about the United States, I believe, is that you don't have to have a license to be a journalist." -- National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre, Jr., ACLU Membership Conference, 2004-07-08. (high bandwidth RealMedia), (other versions) Thanks to cos for pointing out the webcast.

*sigh* I had such grand plans for the day.

I had planned to crash early yesterday so as to be rested today. I ate a "tryptophan bomb" to make me sleepy, but it failed to detonate, I guess. Sometime after sunup I finally crashed. I woke after noon. I'd had a notion to call a friend who is back in Baltimore from China for a spell and who wants to pick my brain, and see whether she was available for a camera-geeking afternoon today, but the screwed-up sleep pattern put a crimp in that plan. Then as I was about to start getting ready to go to rehearsal, I fell asleep again -- I mean that "uh, I'm going to either lie down or fall down now" way of falling asleep -- not waking up until rehearsal was half over. And I had been rather solidly planning to attend rehearsal tonight.    :-(    That kind of glitches the idea of running down to Arlington from rehearsal, too. Finally, I got a phone call a few minutes ago about a possible gig on Sunday, and my phone quit (ran out of prepaid airtime) in the middle of the call. Whoops. I'm not having my best day.

I think I'll go feed Perrine, feed myself, try to sort out Sunday, and figure out what looks feasible for tomorrow.

... And along with everything else I didn't get around to today, I never wrote anything about the anniversary of the moon landing.

I'm just old enough to remember watching it on television. Funny how much farther away it seems now than it did then. Shouldn't it be the other way 'round? Feh.