Oh, I forgot. Wake up between 5:30-6:15 because the middle-aged female bladder is like that, then blearily open the front door so the cat can go out. He'll come back in when I leave for work.

Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates

Alarm: 6:50
Get up: 6:50 - 7
Leave: 8:00
Get to work: 8:30

Post-move schedule is pretty much the same as before except the bed-in-closet arrangement means hitting the snooze is much more difficult and therefore I'll probably just get up when the alarm goes off.

Commuting time is the same except I'm walking rather than taking MUNI, which is a big improvement.

I finally managed to find both my office key and phone charger last night, so that's a plus.

I should be completely out of boxes tonight.

Speaking of those Somali pirates, I was pleased to hear the morning radio show hosts on WGN tease what subjects they were going to be discussing before noon, since they mentioned the UN report on exactly why these Somali fisherman have gone into piracy. I think it's the first time I've heard any mention of this report outside of the blogs (I saw it first at crooksandliars a few days ago).

If you haven't seen the story, apparently, after the government collapsed back in 1991, ships from other countries, specifically western Europe, have been not only poaching the fishing in their territorial waters, but even worse, they've been dumping barrels of nuclear waste. The children born in the coastal areas of Somalia have been increasingly born with malformed limbs, etc., and the fishing has been getting worse. Then, after the Christmas tsunami, the barrels have been brought to the surface and are floating ashore and more than 300 people have died of radiation poisoning so far.

Dead.AtYourAge.com

Congratulations! You've just outlived some interesting people. Tell us your date of birth, and we'll tell you who they were.

You've outlived Robert Louis Stevenson by two weeks. He was an author of "Treasure Island" (1883) and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886). He died of a stroke on December 3, 1894, 71 years before you were born.

Wow, guys. I used to wake up at 9 and get in at 10:30. Unless I went to the gym, then wake up at 6:45.

Yeah, I'm not saying when I wake up, because you'd make fun of me.

I do work at home, though.

I never realized that Big Bird is a baby chick: [link]

Speaking of those Somali pirates...

Kathy, that's heartbreaking.

If I had a choice, I wouldn't get up until 9 or later.

I CAN HAZ SILVER ROOF!!!

(Seriously, this is awesome because it makes so much of a difference in heating and cooling costs.)