We just got our quarterly vacation updates, and I have 1/2 a vacation day carried over from last year. How the hell does one use half a vacation day? Maybe I can persuade HR to just pay me for half an extra day instead.

Huh. Wonder if this info can be trusted....

Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year.

Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step down as he becomes an increasing political liability to President Bush.

The sources reported a growing rift between the president and vice president as well as their staffs. They cited Mr. Cheney's failure to immediately tell the president of the accidental shooting of the vice president's hunting colleague earlier this month. The White House didn't learn of the incident until 18 hours later.

Mr. Cheney's next crisis could take place by the end of the year, the sources said. They said the White House was expecting Mr. Cheney to defend himself against charges from his former chief of staff, Lewis Libby, that the vice president ordered him to relay classified information. Such a charge could lead to a congressional investigation and even impeachment proceedings.

"Nothing will happen until after the congressional elections," a GOP source said. "After that, there will be significant changes in the administration and Cheney will probably be part of that."

Already, senators expect Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate whether Mr. Cheney authorized Mr. Libby to divulge classified material. Mr. Libby has told a grand jury that unnamed "superiors" directed him to relay the content of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in July 2003.

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That page won't load for me, but there've been rumours/theories for awhile that Cheney would step down and let Bush appoint a VP with a chance of winning the 2008 presidential election.

How the hell does one use half a vacation day?

By going home early?

How the hell does one use half a vacation day?

Go to the movies. Sleep in.

People around here take all sorts of fractions of vacation days.

but there've been rumours/theories for awhile that Cheney would step down and let Bush appoint a VP with a chance of winning the 2008 presidential election.

Crap, I was thinking of applying for the position, but if one of the qualifications is having a chance of winning the 2008 presidential election....

By going home early?

Yeah, I guess. It just feels weird, as a salaried employee, to be accounting for less than a full day off. But I have to use it up before the end of March or I lose it, so I guess I'll be giving myself a longish weekend soon.

I would vote for tommyrot, and possibly make a campaign donation as well. I'd give good money to see a SOTU address by someone with a cat perched on his (or her) shoulder.

So, there's one vote, and at least $11.50 in the presidential campaign till. How does that stack up against the competition?

I'd give good money to see a SOTU address by someone with a cat perched on his (or her) shoulder.

Or I could just dangle cat toys in front of the camera, to amuse the cats watching at home.

So, there's one vote, and at least $11.50 in the presidential campaign till. How does that stack up against the competition?

I don't know what the competition has. So, as far as I know they have 0$. I win!

A lesson in how not to use scare quotes