It's Monica's birthday. (That's the page I did for her 5 years ago.) I nearly forgot it this year. I was planning to go see her today and take over the stuff we got in Pennsylvania, but I finally noticed the date. Go figure, she's busy.

I soaked my feet this morning. Rich says that's why I've been so cold all day. I spent much of it bundled up in a blanket, watching TV and defragging my disk. I ran Ad-aware a couple of weeks ago and it's now putting a Windoze Network connection up in the start-up menu. There doesn't appear to be any way to get rid of it. Oh, well. I just love Bill Gates!

On my tapes: The old couple (whom I'm rooting for, but they're doomed soon) stayed in the Amazing Race. On Survivor, this guy with the pierced lip thinks eating chicken necks is disgusting. Hey, Mr. Pot, meet Miss Kettle. Anyway, back when I was poor, we used to get backs and necks, because they were cheap. (You know, I don't see those packaged any more. Must be the "parts is parts" in nuggets.) I could get more meat off a neck and back than other people got off the rest of the chicken.

Awful World Series game. I like the "HALOLUJAH" signs, though.

George Will, on his own against three liberals, described three Clinton accomplishments, Oslo, the Good Friday Accords, and North Korea (to which he added a snide comment about Carter's Peace Prize.) He also, wrongly in my opinion, derided absentee ballots.

CBS' morning show had Fall in Wyoming along the Snake. So beautiful! (They must have been there that day.)

Christopher Hitchens said "All jihadists have endied in total humiliating failure. It will happen to al-Quaeda, too." He also wrote So Long Fellow Travellers.

The Practice is saying a Christian Science trial wouldn't have happened pre-9/11. Bull. And why is the only religious freedom these shows favor not mainstream Judeo-Christian?

Late at night I got a phone call, and we won the Rivercats basket!

How Appealing:

a Sacramento County, California family court judge has ruled that the plaintiff in the Pledge of Allegiance case, Michael A. Newdow, can no longer claim to be representing his daughter in that suit.