OMG OMG OMG. New most un-favorite task at work. My boss just handed me an envelope full of cab receipts. I have to go through, guess what he would have tipped them, go through his calendar to see what they might have been for, and then fill out the reimbursement form.

I see Jesse works for my old boss.

Jesse! I just realized I've been doing work for your school all week.

The whole U.? Can you call my boss and tell him to EAT IT?? That would rock.

This may have been posted last week, but I just heard about it. Apparently France offered "the use of its resources in the Caribbean sea, including 2 navy ships, 1 navy hospital, 8 planes, 600 tents, 1000 beds, and rescuers." Bush said no thanks, but we'll take cash.

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An excellent column from the NY Times about New Orleans after Katrina.

I'm taking an ice cream break. I suggest others do the same. I will clearly be working until 8pm tonight. so much to do and a whole bank of our servers are down. which means no email, no access to FTP sites I need and no access to our in-house web sites which Ialso need. Bah.

Suddenly there's a zombie shuffling around in my brain saying, "Naaaaaaaaaaaaap."

I'm taking an ice cream break. I suggest others do the same.

I sent the skeeeery email.

To date, we have spent 24 (not sure why I was being coy with this number when I left the rest in) hours working on the Web site for [you]. In the initial estimate, we anticipated spending 4–8 hours on the project.

If we are going to talk tomorrow about changing the design again, we will need to add a Change Order to the job.

I am anticipating that we will require an additional .5 hour of meeting time and an additional 1.5 hours of production time and have prepared a Change Order (see attached) to this effect.

I think I have earned ice cream.

2. Only (in my estimation) the last (4th) one was properly funny.

I agree. They did a lot better once they had an original script.

As Calli guessed, I was thinking of Jack Davenport, but the other guy (Patrick?) would be good too.

Bec always thought that Richard Coyle was very hot.

Now I want ice cream and a nap. Instead, I need to head off to work.

God bless Billmon. [link]

What a new, improved GOP New Orleans might look like is hard to say. If I had to guess, I'd predict it would resemble the old city about as much as the New Orleans Square exhibit at Disneyland -- except with fewer black people on the street. Of course, a humid, polluted metropolis that combines the innovative urban planning of Sugarland, Texas with the vibrant, multiethnic culture of Greenwich, Conn. might not be quite as big of a tourist draw.