Our neighbors just bought a new dishwasher and the box it came in has been repurposed as a playhouse. The boys are VERY possessive of it - if one of them is in there, the other will try to climb in and push the other one out. So far no blood has been drawn.

It sounds just like puppycam!

Noah, the little rocket man.

I am very much looking forward to the pictures. Despite knowing that the earworm will be there every time.

Oh good lord. They've been reporting all morning on reports that the selection process for Obama's Senate seat might be, shall we say, a wee bit unsavory. Now, they're interrupting to say that Blagojevich has actually been taken into custody this morning.

How many governors do we have in jail right now? Always room for another, I guess.

Unsavory politicians are so much more fun than the uncorrupted. TDS would be out of business without them.

Here's Blagojevich yesterday after it was reported that the Feds have been secretly taping him:

“If anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously. And those who feel like they wanna sneakily and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kinda smells like Nixon and Watergate.”

Okay, leaving aside the massive misunderstanding of what happened with Nixon, is that really the name you want to be invoking right now? Really?

That's....kind of awesome. If you're going to be shady, go balls to the wall!

Everyone is late for my meeting, sitting in traffic. I am ready!

am overwhelmed with work already. Wah! maybe taking yesterday was not the best idea. I must get some of this crap off my plate today. MUST.

I am ready!

Go through the agenda, make decisions, and leave them a summary of what you decided. Then give yourself a bonus for being so efficient.

Today we are supposed to hear from the Big Boss just what cuts he plans on making (we have to cut about 150K from this fiscal year [ends April 30]) from the proposals we submitted. There's one payment of 43K due at the end of April that the publisher will accept after May 1st, but the campus might not allow us to push it back.

Oh man, this just gets better and better. There's conspiring to sell the Obama seat, "pay-to-play" schemes, and threatening to withhold state assistance to the Tribune company to induce a purge of critical editorial board members/writers. Wow.

I think it was Cindy who noted that the Little Tikes stuff will survive the apocalypse. Keith Richards and the cockroaches will be driving the coupes and living in the Cozy Cottages.

I'd also like to point out that Little Tikes is a fine Ohio company!

The cardboard rocket is definitely awesome. It'll live in the house for a while before it migrates outside.

Oh man. K and Noah left for Idaho this morning. Am sad.