ETA: Hee! I just got a "Punch out George W. and win an X-box 360" banner ad. With the actual pop-up blocked, the game itself is very satisfying.

In case you're losing motivation:

From an interview with Brian Williams:

Williams: A lot of people have seen in this series of speeches you’re giving on Iraq, a movement in your position. They call it an acknowledgement that perhaps the mission has not gone as it was originally planned — three points: That the U.S. would be welcomed as liberators, that General Shinsecki, when he said this would take hundreds of thousands of troops in his farewell speech, might have been right. And third, that it wasn’t a self-sustaining war in terms of the oil revenue. Do you concede those three points might not have gone as planned?

President Bush: Review them with me again.

Williams: Number one — that we’d be welcomed as liberators?

President Bush: I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.

I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.

Nothing says 'welcome' like IEDs.

(I almost typed 'IUD')

I think your point still stands.

{{{libkitty}}}

Go! Gris, do your work! I will work on mine if you will work on yours. So, we're going to procrastinate a bit more, right?

President Bush: I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.

head. desk. head. desk. lather. rinse. repeat.

Nobody should wish for a reverse-cycle feeding baby. That way lies deep deep sleep deprivation, emotional breakdowns every Saturday, and various other forms of insanity. Signed, been there, not yet sure I've survived.

Gris, do your work! I will work on mine if you will work on yours. So, we're going to procrastinate a bit more, right?

Actually, going to go meet Gershwin Girl for quick dinner, coffee, and finding a nice quiet place to work that isn't my room. If that doesn't motivate me, I don't know what will.

Nobody should wish for a reverse-cycle feeding baby. That way lies deep deep sleep deprivation, emotional breakdowns every Saturday, and various other forms of insanity. Signed, been there, not yet sure I've survived.

Yeah. I'm thinking it would be a bit of hell. If we do wind up that way, I will weep and my mother will wonder why that is, because SHE did just fine.

(In mother's case, well, she sleeps even less than I generally do, and she's had 45 years to gloss over the memory with a thin veneer of nostalgia.)

t stomps foot

I DON'T WANNA WRITE MY PAPER!

t apologizes for shouting

ms. bug, how ya gonna do all them honors courses if you can't sit your booty down and write this paper, huh?

DXM & Maidengurl, A's got Milton Bradley for Andre Ethier. Good pick up for the A's. Addition by subtraction for the Dodgers, I guess.

Gud, I'm sorry. I'm wishing you a Christmas filled with kindness and patience and lots of kid time.