I'd just feel happier about the whole thing lying down.

Not a day goes by when I don't want a hideaway bed under my desk like in that episode of Seinfeld.

(The new office? The one I won't be working in? Has plans for a "Privacy Room" where people can go lie down when they feel sick, and can also be used for pumping breast milk. I can haz departmental transfer nao?)

You know what is awesome? The smiles on the faces of the little kids holding the hands of the South African soccer players as they walk onto the field. Especially when the announcers have have just been talking about this massacre of children that happen on his day in SA 60 years ago.

We have one of those rooms (it used to double as the Massage Room when they brought in a chair masseuse once a month--they didn't pay for the massage, but they at least provided the service in-house). The women's restrooms also have a seating area with cushioned benches (banquette-style) where we can lie down if we need to, but then you get co-workers asking if you're feeling all right. I'm guessing the equivalent area in the men's rooms is filled with urinals.

I lie down in my car. I get skittish at the idea of doing it where my co-workers could actually see me.

But I get skittish about my co-workers realising I'm not feeling well, which is why I haven't asked my boss if I can go the hell home. Which I totally should, dammit. The meeting at 1:30 is call-in.

Hm, this yogurt seems to be helping a little. Maybe I was low on...yogurt. Or something.

(Lunch didn't help, so it's not just hunger.)

Dropping in -- what was the person search that people were talking about recently? It wasn't Zabasearch, was it?

They took the loveseat out of the women's bathroom when they remodeled the building. Bastards. Moved the scale to that area. (The scale is for the annual fitness drives, I think there's one in the men's room as well.) There's also a shower area in the bathroom, but that's where the toilet paper and paper towels are stored.

IIRC Anita Blake had a rat king. A minotaur is like 50% better than that.

U.S. Army Orders Huge Airship to Aid Combat Missions

The United States Army has ordered a huge hybrid airship longer than a football field to watch over battlefields in Afghanistan by the end of 2011, according to the airship's builder Northrop Grumman Corporation.

The company has received a $517 million Army contract to build up to three of the huge military airships, called the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicles (LEMV). Such airships would serve as surveillance stations at 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) above sea level and could stay on watch for as long as three weeks at a time.

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That represents a staying power for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance over a longer period of time than what today's robotic drones such as the Predator or Reaper can provide.

They completely remodeled all the bathrooms in the building a few years back and took out the sofa but replaced it with the banquette benches. They also made everything automatic--toilets, soap dispensers, faucets, paper towels, and air freshener.