My summer ended today. As I watched the rain pour down, I put aside the sandles which have seen me through the past three months and returned to my boots. The hope was to keep the water out, but that wasn’t to be. I’d forgotten about the holes in my boots. But the principle of the thing remains.
Not much to report from the weekend. A good visit with family over the weekend. Viewings of unremarkable films. A fair bit more delicatessen planning (front page now updated). And my house is a fair bit tidier.
Watching the news yesterday made me begin to wonder why Scott Ritter couldn’t be US president. I suppose it’s fairly obvious really, but his statements seemed so measured and reasonable that it did make me wish for a regime that saw things more that way.
It came as little surprise to see that the story of Ritter urging caution was followed today with a report that Iraq could have nuclear weapons “within months”. Little surprise, of course, because I expected the propaganda backlash, but also because it would come as a surprise to me to find a regime which couldn’t have nuclear weapons within that time frame given the necessary nuclear material. It would surprise me if there was a university physics department which couldn’t have one in the time frame. Granted, not a clean, advanced nuclear weapon, but a nuclear weapon none-the-less. I guess there’s more of this to come. Did you hear about Tony Blair throwing babies out of incubators? Oh, no, wait….
Meanwhile I’ve made some upgrades to the message boards at sarahmasen.com (and been reminded once again how messy they are internally and that I really need to do something about that), updated the delicatessen front page, produced a draft speak programme for the term and caught up on quite a few other bits and pieces. And now I’ve blogged.