I keep forgetting to mention that JD has a beautiful new splash page up and he's been continuing to write new entries. And so has sweet li'l'Annette. My damned back... I really don't know what to do about it. I'm trying stretching and drugs, which have always worked somewhat in the past... but still having about the same degree of pain. It's generally OK most of the time, but when I turn just wrong or something the pain drives me to my knees. Luckily, this doesn't happen all that often, just several times a day. My knees seem to be holding out OK, though. Actually, I've only been literally driven to my knees twice this time, both times happened yesterday. I try to keep good track of things to grab on to when I'm walking around the house. Pretty much a gloomy day here... sunny earlier but overcast now. JD in Houston has had some weather, but that front is way out to sea now though. So, it is now being generally acknowledged that the BabyBush administration took some liberties with the truth regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. But... it's not really lying, they say; they just didn't tell the *whole* truth. What they really needed to do, of course, is: every time that they make a statement, they need to *qualify* it. As in, "Let me qualify that: what I just said was a flat-out lie. Next question". And, I'm afraid to say, this applies to all governments. not just the present one here in these United States of America. But the fact that he's so far gotten by with these lies says that he now thinks that he can get by with other lies and not be challenged. And it is just so pitiful that the past president was impeached for lying about sex, and this one appears to get off scott-free when he lies about the reasons that he sent our soldiers to fight a war on sovereign soil, at the cost of billions of American dollars and the loss of hundreds of US soldiers and thousands of Iraquis, both civilians and soldiers. Reading today: The Age of Invention & Bygone Beliefs. And Tom Sawyer. Back when I was a reader, I would usually be reading at least three books at a time, maybe more... one in the living room, one in the bathroom, one in the bedroom, and one at work. Now, with the readers, both the PC and the PocketPC, I can probably have about ten that I'm reading at any one time. The really interesting ones I'll read pretty quickly, and the more difficult ones I'll be able to read a few pages at a time. Well, I had an e-mail from Rob of Backwayd Rain letting me know that Bookworm was available for the PocketPC. I went and bought it immediately, along with the PC version. I love that game. And the PPC version is really pretty neat, I'm sure that I'll get my money's worth out of it. Well, dammit, I just lost a whole bunch of letters and words here; my PPC wasn't synching with the main machine, so I re-booted, thinking that I'd saved everything... but I didn't, dammit. I can actually set this program to save every two minutes, but I've got it on 20 for some stupid reason. What could have been the reason for that? Damnfino. I was probably feeling invincible or something stupid like that. Did I mention that I was keeping track of my blood glucose levels on the PPC? Pretty slick little program, only $15. I need to buy a few simple tools and start doing programs for this PPC, seems to be pretty simple. So I'm going to bed early tonight, hoping that the back will be better when I get up, hoping that I'll be able to go to work... I really don't want to miss any more time with this problem. And it's pretty well scared me too... about the traveling thing. What if I hurt my back on the first job I get? Or the second, or the third? Just something else to worry about. Dammit, if you worry about everything, you won't be able to do anything, and that's a sad place to be. Right? Right. Full speed ahead.