I suppose it doesn't hurt to have a list of active projects. But when the estimated duration of the total tasks reaches into a year or more one can easily feel overwhelmed. This is so much like the early Netscape days it's scary. How to get more stuff done than can reasonably be done in a day and not burn out. Tough one. After running all day at work, came home and started the home list. Medicine cabinet to install. Keyboard and monitor stand to build for the store so I can see out front whilst I'm doing books or business or just surfing. Got that done. Still working on the guitar with the really big ding. It will be weeks before it's done. Think I'll put that into the background as I've lost money on it no matter what I do. Yet I still want to get it to a condition that I can rent or sell it cheap. 15-20 minutes a day tops.

Paula Jones, Tonya Harding, Monica Lewinsky, and Linda Tripp all in the news this week. Wait a second - they've all had their 15 minutes. Why should we give them any more? 'Cause except maybe for Monica they're the queens of the bee-eye-tee-see-aitch club. Can't get enough of that. And Monica's well, Monica. I don't doubt that there's been an awful lot of banging going on along the oval office corridors for at least my lifetime. JFK was notorious and LBJ never got caught and so on. It comes with the territory. But she's the first to talk. Anyways they all have now displayed a talent for finding a good publicity manager. OK, fifteen more minutes. But that's it...

We should expect a lot more casualties in Afghanistan from here on out. The locals have now had a good chance to study us and find our weaknesses. Same as they did with the Russians. I mean, these are folks that can take a hammer and a scrap piece of metal and pound it into a perfectly working AK-47 just as easily as they take another piece and turn it into a horseshoe. They've been killing invaders since time began. And this is exactly how they do it. They let the foreigners occupy their cities whilst the fighters go into the mountains and study them. Then they fight back... they'll make weapons out of literally anything. OK, we already know that.