Now boarding

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Gene

Internal clock. Anxiety. Restlessness. Whatever.
I’ve been up since about 3am, anticipating a rush hour drive to San Francisco to catch my plane home. Anticipating a very long day in planes and airports, waiting in lines, sitting in seats — albeit first class ones. Due to the quirks of time zones, I won’t arrive in DC until 11pm Eastern, making an entire day wasted.
I’ve decided something momentus: for the first time in, oh, something like 8 years, I will travel without a laptop. I’m leaving the PowerBook at home, taking only my iPod for entertainment.
I’m sure that I’ll go insane being out of touch, so if you happen to be waiting for a response to an e-mail, just remember that my fingers are burning yearning for a keyboard.
This also means I won’t be updating the blog, although I’ve already stuck a couple pre-written things in — hopefully they’ll appear on the correct days automagically.
So, as we pause, let’s recap where we are in our saga: The Senate has moved to reauthorize the Patriot Act for 6 months — amusingly, the president who claimed that even a day without it would be disastrous refused to accept 6 months. Well, if he’d rather not have it at all than for 6 months, it must not be that important. There’s also the fight over ANWR drilling, again. I can’t understand why people like Ted Stevens are pushing it so hard — other than the obvious reason (profits for oil companies) — because any drilling there won’t put a dent in our oil consumption, and will take at least 7 years to begin.
Anyway. See you Monday!