Boy this room service sure sucks... I can't get away for lunch so about once every week or two I get a huge meal delivered and stick the leftovers away in the fridge to last a few days. But they've shorted my order the last three times. This would be waitersonwheels. It's always the appetizer. The guy's out the door before you can open all the little boxes and check it out. Think I'll just go back to fast pizza. No, I'm not gonna' call and complain. Twice is a coincidence. Three times means something is fundamentally broken. They're either totally incompetent or they're intentionally trying to screw me. Either way, I don't wish to do business with them again. I'll start cursing them on Saturday when I get hungry and there's nothing left in the fridge.

Only a couple more hours until Saddam's deadline. By this point, I've stopped trying to conjecture what might happen. We'll know soon enough. Will Saddam leave at the last moment? Are his presumed weapons hidden so deeply that we'll never find them and be the laughing stock of the planet? Will he launch a bunch of them? We'll just have to wait and see. The war machine is in motion. Where it lands is anybody's guess.

But one would have to question our own generals if they launch an attack during a sand storm and the brightest moon of the month. These aren't ideal conditions for quick domination. It'll be days before the moon wanes though - and no telling when the sand will stop. They'll probably push in anyway. Tonight? We'll just have to wait and see. I think a couple more days would be best. But the bombs are already flying. Taking out the short range missile sites close to Kuwait. Knocking out radar towers. No, we're not really at war yet - unless you're one of those folks that thinks dropping a few tons of bombs on strategic military installations counts as a war.

Denver gets about four-and-a-half feet of snow. The airport is closed. Hmmm, that would be the United main hub. It's gotta' be the work of them terrorist dudes. Where will they strike next? A hurricane in Florida? An earthquake in the golden state? And here we are protecting the airspace over Bear Mountain and the Pirates of the Carribean. And New York. And D.C. What are they thinking? If it were me, I'd close the airspace over Winnemucca. They'd send out all their operatives to find out why, and we nab 'em. There's only one road. OK, two, but they don't know that.