bon, hope the apt is AWESOME. also you make me laugh.

I wanna see it now! It's a railroad apartment. Confidential to you: thank you for your good words here & elsewhere.

Someone's probably already posted this, but here's some fodder for your righteous anger.

I thought I was done with this Con Plague, except it staged a sneak attack a bit ago when I ducked out to grab lunch. In the middle of a coughing fit which almost caused me to yark in a plaza, I found myself thinking, "If I'm going to puke in public, I damn well want to be intoxicated at the time!"

Hello, blue Sudafed, my leetle friend.

I LOVE YOU BON BON!

IOW, I calls em likes I sees em and you are a good one.

Oh, then totally. That's exactly what I did. And totally don't get the cable internet if you're never going to be home to use it.

Can you get internet access on your cell phone? That might do you so that you'd have access if you needed it, but not be paying for cable you're not using.

So product demo meeting this morning, that meant I couldn't take the appointment opening Comcast had today, was a total bust. After it took the vendor a half hour to get everything setup and running after the start of the meeting, we discovered within five minutes that it wasn't remotely the kind of system we were looking for. While getting out of a two hour meeting close to an hour and a half early is nice, I couldn't help thinking "I could have had internet again today if not for you morons!"

So, yeah, I'm the wrong person to chime in if you want an objective opinion on whether you should get internet access in your new apartment, Sophia.

Internet access on the cell phone is expensive, and slow if you want to use it for anything other than surfing on a handheld device. I just goggled at my bill -- 30MB set me back quite a chunk of change. I need to upgrade that plan/downgrade my usage.

From yesterday's press briefing with Press Secretary Scott McClellan:

Reporter: Scott, does the president retain confidence in his FEMA director and secretary of Homeland Security?

McClellan: And again, David, see, this is where some people want to look at the blame game issue, and finger-point. We're focused on solving problems, and we're doing everything we can --

Reporter: What about the question?

McClellan: We're doing everything we can in support --

Reporter: We know all that.

McClellan: -- of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.

Reporter: Does he retain complete confidence --

McClellan: We're going to continue. We appreciate the great effort that all of those at FEMA, including the head of FEMA, are doing to help the people in the region. And I'm just not going to engage in the blame game or finger-pointing that you're trying to get me to engage.

Reporter: OK, but that's not at all what I was asking.

McClellan: Sure it is. It's exactly what you're trying to play.

Reporter: You have your same point you want to make about the blame game, which you've said enough now. I'm asking you a direct question, which you're dodging.

McClellan: No --

Reporter: Does the president retain complete confidence in his director of FEMA and secretary of Homeland Security, yes or no?

McClellan: I just answered the question.

Reporter: Is the answer "yes" on both?

McClellan: And what you're doing is trying to engage in a game of finger-pointing --

Reporter: There's a lot of criticism. I'm just wondering if he still has confidence.

McClellan: -- and blame-gaming. What we're trying to do is solve problems, David. And that's where we're going to keep our focus.

Reporter: So you're not -- you won't answer that question directly?

McClellan: I did. I just did.

Reporter: No, you didn't. Yes or no? Does he have complete confidence or doesn't he?

McClellan: No, if you want to continue to engage in finger-pointing and blame-gaming, that's fine --

Reporter: Scott, that's ridiculous. I'm not engaging in any of that.

McClellan: It's not ridiculous.

Reporter: Don't try to accuse me of that. I'm asking you a direct question and you should answer it. Does he retain complete confidence in his FEMA director and secretary of Homeland Security, yes or no?

McClellan: Like I said, that's exactly what you're engaging in.

Reporter: I'm not engaging in anything. I'm asking you a question about what the president's views are --

McClellan: Absolutely -- absolutely --

Reporter: -- under pretty substantial criticism of members of his administration. OK? And you know that, and everybody watching knows that as well.

McClellan: No, everybody watching this knows, David, that you're trying to engage in a blame game.

Reporter: I'm trying to engage?

McClellan: Yes.

Reporter: I am trying to engage?

McClellan: That's correct.

sigh...

No point in dancing around it. This is a scary link.

Great. I have PT at three, which means I leave the office at 2, latest. This means I'm near home and can errand better, but also -- dude, lots of time out of office, and I'm off work next week. Pfft. Also, grr. But whee!

Man, I might be a little bit in love with Scott McLellan. I am just fascinated by his reality.

I know that's perverted and wrong though. He provides such mindboggling yet entertaining press conferences!