Better get to the gym.  Tuesday may be fat, but fat Chuck won’t be earning any beads.

According to the BBDO survey, 15 percent of Americans have interrupted sex to answer a cell phone call.

I’ve tolerated a woman in the BorgHealth waiting room talking about her yeast infection, several retail clerks who couldn’t stop their personal business long enough to scan an item, and countless drivers who were so distracted while driving and chatting they should be dead in their over-priced wrecks, but never, never, has someone been that rude to me. And they certainly wouldn’t get the opportunity to be that rude to me twice.

Swimming, client meeting, software upgrades.  Sure feels like a workday, but I guess that’s all part of the return to self-employment.  Feels good.

Civilians rioting in support of a terrorist group that has murdered at least 1700 people hospitalizes fourteen people.
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It was a slow week with actual billable work, but the redesign of the law practice site went well, and I have some plans now for changes at beachlaw.  These things, plus the gym, Pongo and a few other diversions keep me occupied and out of the padded room.  The swimming’s been good and the spring base tan is starting to settle in.  Client meeting Sunday morning will make up for some of the missing billings during the week, and I may even get brunch out of it.  A fed lawyer is a happy lawyer.  It’s a very similar truism to fact that a caffeinated lawyer is, well, a lawyer actually; they’re one and the same.  If y’all are good someday I’ll tell you about my theories on the correlation between the snacks offered by private mediators and resolution of cases by various mediators.  Probably shoud save that one until my snack expert is in town next month though – better to have my theories sampled reviewed by the master before I publish.

I’ve been noticing on the stats that a lot of you come from Google Images looking for pics that are over at the gallery.  Well, this isn’t the gallery.  A handy little PHP script picks a couple of images at random to display on the left side of this page, but the ubiquitous search conglomerate doesn’t seem to realize that the pics change with each page load.  So welcome, we’re sorry that you came in the wrong way, but please go over and try and find what you were looking for.

Nice to see Piglet leading the charge.

Taking a break from the law firm’s new website – no more links until the new site goes live.

Updated an online resume yesterday and today I’ve had three e-mail offers to serve as a contract security target in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Not even tempted, though I am amused at their opening salary offer.

Playing with the settings on Protopage, a new start page I found via a link at Kottke.  Finally, a simple interface that doesn’t take one-third of the area reminding me of the stupid stuff my ISP does for other people.

Wind is starting up.  Weather has returned.  Time to ask the landlord for a refund – winter was not in our agreement.

In the print version of an article on Bush’s ideology, the assertion is made that under the Bush Doctrine, “America would have to launch periodic preventive wars to defend itself against rouge states and terrorists.” I understand the whole red state, blue state thing, and get that many countries are greener than ours, but can someone help this poor geography major find the rouge states on the map? Are we talking about France here?

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“Chocolate … is the number one flavor ingredient in the world,” said Jimmy Cass, Mars’ vice president of marketing. “Heart health is the No. 1 concern of adults over the age of 40 in every civilized nation. Putting those two together is automatically a big idea.”

Mars to market healthy chocolate.