Okay. Let us kiss with tongues!

Isn't that just the way deals are closed in Hollywood?

Happy Birthday, tommyrot!!

When a friend was getting married, we priced the same arrangement by having one group go in and say we wanted it for an anniversary dinner and another group saying it was for a wedding. When quoted for a wedding, it was priced significantly higher.

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

According to his version, a marine was killed during the capture, Saddam was not captured in an underground hole, and he fought back first (by firing on the marines).

Secret FBI report says Al Qaeda threat in the US is overblown.

Why are people determined to make my life difficult today?

People on my list:

1) Consultant who sent me a pile of edits to make to a document last night. I saved her document to the system, made a few changes, highlighted the rest so that I'd be sure not to miss them when I went back to it this morning.

Consultant goes into the database version last night, which - no. Then leaves me three voicemails and and email pointing out all kinds of stupid shit that's wrong. " I see that you did not make the changes I requested in Client References—I guess you didn’t see the note." "Apparently you overlooked..." "I wonder why you didn't...."

For fuck's sake, it's highlighted in bright blue. It's not done yet. When I tell you the document is final, then you can feel free to point out errors and shit.

2) Contact at the printers who sat on a request for new business cards for a Director for more than two weeks without notifying me that a) it's not her job anymore, b) who it is who should be taking care of this, or c) that she's in some kind of feud with our remaining contact at this firm and thus not passing emails along to him anyway. What the fucking fuck is wrong with these people? And yet, we're commited to use them due to some longstanding personal relationship blah blah blah bullshit.

3) You know, I was a little annoyed at the client who keeps emailing me thinking he's emailing the Chairman of our European subsid. I've forwarded eight or ten emails so far. Now the Chairman just emailed me back - "what does so-and-so mean by this?' Like I would even know -you're the professional, not to mention the one who's in the same freaking continent with this guy. But after all the rest of the shit, this one is just making me laugh and laugh.

Huh. The hotel that did my wedding reception gave me their business conference price list. I wonder if that was an inadvertant bargain for me. (eta: glad you can laugh, brenda, sounds like you have more than your share of Stupid People Who May or May Not Need killing)

Well-done! You have placed the male genitals in the right place. Now choose another organ.

The Interactive Body. Try to place the various organs in the human body. Tricky, as you have to rotate the organs to correctly orient them before placing them.

I scored 33%, and rate as Dangerous.

Didn't do the organs, but I did do the bones and muscles -- i'm at 91% which I'm inordinately pleased about.