You know, I started this journal to keep myself from being bored at work. And from being lonely.

Any day at work when I am too wrapped up to get to it, or almost forget about it because I have too many other things to keep track of?

Is a pretty damn good day.

Vote tomorrow folks - home stretch, it's almost over.

Any of youse locals want to join me down at the local, let me know.

The Friday Cat Blogging will commence when I get home. Guest subjects, no less!

But in the meantime -

One of the nicest things you can send by email or fax, if you're against drilling in ANWR.

Also - on the adoption subject matter? Remember that family that was on Extreme MakeOver? The kids who got taken in by a family from church and they rebuilt the house big enough for all of them?

The ending wasn't happy. Five orphaned siblings who moved into a new dream home on the hit ABC television show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" are suing the network, the company that built the house and the couple who took them in after their parents died.

The children range in age from 15 to 22. They claim that after "Extreme Makeover" built a new nine-bedroom mansion for them to live in with Phil and Loki Leomiti, the Leomitis engaged in "an orchestrated campaign" to drive them away by insulting them and treating them poorly.

The children ultimately moved out of the Leomitis' home in Santa Fe Springs, a small city southeast of Los Angeles, and are living separately with friends, said Charles Higgins II, the eldest sibling.

They're suing the production company, which I think is the wrong thing to do, in entirety. They also need to sue the "adoptive" parents for their share of that house.

That's really bad news. But I doubt the people who tried to take the kids in knew what they were up for, or had any training. I wonder how much better the outcome might have been with some MAPP training.

And jeez. The birth parents made NO plan for their children? Heart failure isn't an overnight dealie-o. That REALLY sucks.

But wait, there's more suck to come -

Who needs to go to Gitmo? Head down to your local Wal-Mart! Shoplift! Be detained! DIE.

Watching for more news on this one. But don't ask me to be surprised anymore.

Pro-life, my ass.

The Friday Cat Blogging will commence when I get home. Guest subjects, no less!

But in the meantime -

One of the nicest things you can send by email or fax, if you're against drilling in ANWR.

Also - on the adoption subject matter? Remember that family that was on Extreme MakeOver? The kids who got taken in by a family from church and they rebuilt the house big enough for all of them?

The ending wasn't happy. Five orphaned siblings who moved into a new dream home on the hit ABC television show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" are suing the network, the company that built the house and the couple who took them in after their parents died.

The children range in age from 15 to 22. They claim that after "Extreme Makeover" built a new nine-bedroom mansion for them to live in with Phil and Loki Leomiti, the Leomitis engaged in "an orchestrated campaign" to drive them away by insulting them and treating them poorly.

The children ultimately moved out of the Leomitis' home in Santa Fe Springs, a small city southeast of Los Angeles, and are living separately with friends, said Charles Higgins II, the eldest sibling.

They're suing the production company, which I think is the wrong thing to do, in entirety. They also need to sue the "adoptive" parents for their share of that house.

That's really bad news. But I doubt the people who tried to take the kids in knew what they were up for, or had any training. I wonder how much better the outcome might have been with some MAPP training.

And jeez. The birth parents made NO plan for their children? Heart failure isn't an overnight dealie-o. That REALLY sucks.

But wait, there's more suck to come -

Who needs to go to Gitmo? Head down to your local Wal-Mart! Shoplift! Be detained! DIE.

Watching for more news on this one. But don't ask me to be surprised anymore.

Pro-life, my ass.