I know it's late in the day, but for anyone following my jury duty saga, I got released today without getting picked. In retrospect yesterday, I think my nearly palpable excitement about being near a criminal trial might have doomed me. And the experience practicing criminal law, but the first year associate next to me got picked. What was wrong with me? I promise I'll convict/exonerate the defendants!

Anyway, the best part about today? I didn't have to go to court until ten, got released for the day at noon, and spent the afternoon walking the city in the sunshine and having a boozy lunch. For the first weekday in weeks I came home without a serious headache!

Please don't have eyeball cancer, Nutty.

Reading about the political brouhaha it's clear the Senate is pissed off. Bush is seriously infringing on Congressional oversight. The Senate is not going to take that lying down - especially from a weakened, unpopular lame duck Pres.

A boozy lunch and the first day without a headache? That's a good win.

Yeah, I think the president may not have thought through the "lame duck" portion of the situation.

P.S. it is not eyeball cancer, as it is in both eyes. So it is brain cancer if it is anything! I think, on the offchance that it is migraine cancer, I will now go to bed, possibly with some prophylactic painkillers.

A boozy lunch and the first day without a headache? That's a good win.

Yeah, I think I found the cure for daily headaches. Alcohol!

Reading about the political brouhaha it's clear the Senate is pissed off. Bush is seriously infringing on Congressional oversight. The Senate is not going to take that lying down

Yeah. My guess is that Bush will take it all the way to the SCotUS. My gut feeling is that he'll lose there, but if he wins... then the only thing we have left to fight this is to impeach him. Which should be done anyway, but that's another issue.

A boozy lunch and the first day without a headache? That's a good win.

And on a nice, sunny day to boot. Score.

Sounds like a migraine aura, Nutty. I most often got them without an actual accompanying migraine headache pain, though.

Sounds to me like the boozy lunch and the first day without a headache could be related. More boozy lunches, I say! Although your firm might frown upon it.

It could be optic nerve cancer. There's always a way.

I am having a migraine. The nerve block is working--the back of my head doesn't hurt at all, and that's a considerable part of a bad migraine for me. But my eyeball is trying to escape, and the muscular soreness goes from shoulder all the way up to jaw. What a waste of a really lovely massage I had today.

I think some are getting tired of politics, but if you're still interested, here's a fascinating Daily Kos post: [link]

It argues that this is a Really Big Deal/about to blow up in Bushie's face/straw that broke the camel's back/etc....

eta: From the Kos post (bold is theirs):

You don't have to read every line of the slowly uploaded e-mails to get the point: this is the highest level of corruption and graft ever perpetrated in the United States by the government.

If congresspeople ask the right questions and demand all the evidence officials are likely now trying to shred, hide, bury, burn, swallow, or shove up their asses -- then before this thing is over, it will be clear that the lastest scandal is 100% pure, unadulterated obstruction of justice. The obstruction is an attempt to cover up a widespread pattern and practice of GOP and corporate corruption.