Ha! If it gets too crowded, they can make you check everything. My ex was once forced to choose between checking his laptop and checking a Zero Halliburton case with our camera equipment in it. He picked laptop because he needed to finish a presentation. We never saw the cameras again.

How awful. I can't imagine losing my camera equipment.

Monkey on the lam would be a great band name.

Big-ass Seymour Hersch article about the military and the administration's current plans for attacking Iran: [link]

Well, at least they're not considering nukes anymore. And more people in the military are standing up to the administration....

A senior military official told me, “Even if we knew where the Iranian enriched uranium was—and we don’t—we don’t know where world opinion would stand. The issue is whether it’s a clear and present danger. If you’re a military planner, you try to weigh options. What is the capability of the Iranian response, and the likelihood of a punitive response—like cutting off oil shipments? What would that cost us?” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his senior aides “really think they can do this on the cheap, and they underestimate the capability of the adversary,” he said.

In 1986, Congress authorized the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to act as the “principal military adviser” to the President. In this case, I was told, the current chairman, Marine General Peter Pace, has gone further in his advice to the White House by addressing the consequences of an attack on Iran. “Here’s the military telling the President what he can’t do politically”—raising concerns about rising oil prices, for example—the former senior intelligence official said. “The J.C.S. chairman going to the President with an economic argument—what’s going on here?”

I can't imagine losing my camera equipment.

The worst part is that one of the cameras was a Minolta XK that we got in one of the great yard sale finds of all time.

Believe me, I feel your pain. I'm devoted to my Pentax K1000.

megan! I too have a K1000.

I think it needs to be cleaned or something as we have been having issues.

Random DIY Question:

Anyone around who knows how to remove caulk from a tub that has gotten really hard? I've got the nasty caulk off 2 sides of the tub, but the line of caulk on the front of the tub has turned really hard and I can't get it. Any suggestions??

Mine could use a cleaning to, but I don't trust myself to do it and professionals that have lusted after it have said don't trust it to anyone else.

Um, the K1000, not my tub. Although...

Caulk remover may be worth a try.

My dad just removed and replaced all the caulk in his shower a couple weeks ago. I'm pretty sure that's what he used.

edited because my typing has apparently gone all to hell

Now, this is electronic communication at its finest. Two politicians who wouldn't make that stupid bandwidth speech.

Work is blocking many sites with movies. So I have three emails in my inbox sitting there, grinning at me, unusable until I get home.

Which I'd love to do soon. It's a tomb here.